In some cases it can be useful to enable Django tags within your Jinja2 templates, for example… when you are converting your templates but still have some legacy tags/filters that don’t support Jinja2 or if you are using a project without Jinja2 support. Luckily, that’s not too difficult to achieve with Jinja2, actually a lot […]
When you are sharing a Dropbox folder with a lot of different people at one point someone will eventually delete the shared folder through his/her file manager instead of dropbox, resulting in having half of the files in the subdirectories being gone. As this got so annoying for my use case I wrote a little […]
For some reason I do not understand, Pocket seems to have no support for batch adding articles to the reading list. After looking around quite a bit it doesn’t even seem possible to get a simple add url so you can add them with a little batch script… Since I still wanted to have my […]
At Fashiolista we’ve build nearly the entire site with Jinja instead of the Django template engine. There are a lot of reasons for choosing Jinja2 over Django for us. Better performance (atleast… it was a lot better with previous Django versions), way more options (named arguments, multiple arguments for filters, etc), macros and simply easier […]
Entrepreneur and programmer interested in scaling large systems. For the last couple of years I have been working on a couple of startups, more recently I have decided to take a step back and do some consultancy to do research for my next startup. My main areas of expertise are currently:
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