Released rusmux 0.6 with a bug fix, a couple of new command aliases and a new tmux window options feature.

After several years, released python-bidi 0.5, this time based on the Rust crate unicode-bidi.

After a long hiatus, I’m back translating Django to Hebrew. As of Tuesday Aug 15th. the Hebrew translation of django-core, django-formtools, django-contrib-comments and django-people is back at 100%. Left out for this cycle again: django-localflavor and django-docs and djangoproject.com.

Tmuxinator was a tool I’ve used for a long time, rusmux is a replacment I’ve written with Rust.

HTML over the wire talk slides presenting the need for htmx and the likes, from PyWeb-IL 101.

Trying to serialize large numbers with fast Python JSON libraries.

This website was generated with a custom static generator, Recently I’ve converted it converted to Hugo.

Rust intro talk given at PyWeb-IL 91.

After some burnout hiatus, with Django 2.2 at RC1, I’m back translating Django_ to Hebrew. As of Tuesday, March 19th. the Hebrew translation of django-core, django-formtools, django-contrib-comments and django-people is back at 100%. Left out for this cycle again: django-localflavor and django-docs and djangoproject.com.

The title is sort of clickbait, but the talk I gave at PyWeb-IL 75 is about cases where we need to leave the ORM realm.

Talk about Vue.js given at PyWeb-IL 69.

debian.org.il was a part of my big technical debt, Python 2.6 and Django pre-1.0.

After missing 1.10, I’ve translated late into 1.11’s string freeze process. As of Saturday, April 1st the Hebrew translation of django-core, django-formtools, django-contrib-comments and django-people is back at 100%. Left out for this cycle again: django-localflavor and django-docs.

Talk about AsyncIO given at PyWeb-IL 52.

I’ve translated late into 1.9’s string freeze process. As of Saturday, November 25th the Hebrew translation of django-core, django-formtools, django-contrib-comments and django-people is back at 100%. Left out for this cycle again: django-localflavor and django-docs.

Talk about new features, deprecations and removals in Django 1.8, at PyWeb-IL 44.

It’s that time of the year again: Django 1.8’s is in string freeze, time to brush up the Hebrew translation. Left out for this cycle: django-localflavor and django-docs.

Talk regarding tmux, vim, my workflow and favorite plugins, at PyWeb-IL 40.

Keeping consistent coding style between multiple developers working on the same project is not a simple task, specially with todays proliferation of editors and IDEs.

Using relative line numbers in Vim can help you navigate and edit code faster.

My 8 year daughter is participating in after school activities for outstanding students here in Netanya_. When we couldn’t open the files she created at home I’ve started rallying the troops.

When got notified about Django 1.6’s string freeze, I was shocked to find out that the overall Hebrew status was at 7%! Further investigation revealed the situation was not grave.

django-bidi-utils is a small app I’ve written long time ago. It provides a Context Processor and a filter, helping with development of BiDi Django templates. As I’ve wanted a chance to play with Cookiecutter, it was a good chance to update things and release 1.0 along the way.

A couple of months ago I’ve wrote about missing RTL support for the new Disqus. That support has been implemented since then, with one little nagging translation issue remaining.

I got my 1st computer at the age of 13, been programming since then. My last birthday marked 30 years of code.

Old Disqus added the content to the page, thus allowing customization of the comments system, which is what I’ve done for proper Right-to-left layout. With the new Disqus that’s not an option any more.

Whatsup.org.il was served by Ubuntu 6.06 for a very long time. Had hard time getting to the hosting location, but upgrade was long over due.

My contract with the Open Knesset has ended at April 2013. Let’s summarize.

Many Open Source projects start their life as an itch to scratch, but once they grow, a little marketing effort can get them to the next stage, specially in a crowded niche.

Malcolm Tredinnick, contributor to Django and many other source projects, has passed away.

Starting this week, for the upcoming months, I’ll be working for the open source project “Open Knesset”.

Gnome-shell has become one of my favorite desktop environments. Here are some of my installed extensions, to make it even better.

Fedora’s upgrades are usually a FAIL for me, they should give it a priority if they want testers.

Talk regarding MongoDB, the document oriented database, at the Perl Mongers Tel-Aviv meeting October 2012.

Django 1.5 Hebrew translation completed (including Django People and localflavor).

Using Negative left or text-indent for hiding in CSS is problematic when the direction is rtl, there’s an alternative.

הרצאה אודות Salt Stack, כלי ניהול תצורה והרצת פעולות מרוחקות, שהעברתי במסגרת PyWeb-IL 36

Solarized has been for a long time one of my favorite color scheme in terminals and editors.

Talk regarding Sphinx document generator which I gave at PyWeb-IL 34 Perl Mongers Tel-Aviv meeting at 03/2012.