Hunting Memory Leaks in Python

Posted on Sa, 2013-08-31 in coding • Tagged with python, coding, debugging

The first thing you might say: "Memory leaks in python? What the hell are you talking about? Python has garbage collection. How is this possible? I don't have to care about memory management!" Well you don't. Until your python project blows up directly into your face because it eats up …


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Key Transition 2013

Posted on So, 2013-06-16 in misc • Tagged with openpgp, misc

Today I sent my old OpenPGP key to retirement. I have been really sloppy with this key. I never changed my encryption subkey and signed everything with the master key. With the new key I'll store the master key offline and will sign/encrypt with subkeys, which I'll rotate much …


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Mini Git Tutorial

Posted on Do, 2013-04-04 in other • Tagged with git, coding

Okay I decided to copy & paste some basic git commands and add some short descriptions, so that people who never used git before but have used svn can get a basic workflow running. (So I can tell people I work with: "read this to get started. If you need to …


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Building Android on Arch Linux x86_64

Posted on Sa, 2012-10-13 in android • Tagged with android, archlinux

So it turns out building Android on Arch isn't quite that straight forward, but it is not impossible. There are some guides out there, but none of them is really complete. So here are my steps to get the building started.

First of all you need to enable multilib, if …


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Did you know about Python?

Posted on Mi, 2012-02-22 in coding • Tagged with python, fancy

Well this is so neat, that I have to share it here. :) So today I learned something fancy about python. Some more syntactic sugar. Oh I know why I code most of my stuff in python. So let's assume we define a function like this:

>>> def func(a, b, c …

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