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Scraping HTML Websites with Beautiful Soup

Henning Jacobs — Wed, 25 May 2022 15:45:00 GMT

Scraping HTML websites for information is a common task. This blog post shows how to extract information via the Beautiful Soup (bs4) Python library.

Laser Cutting

Henning Jacobs — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 15:15:00 GMT

Laser cutting with plywood, acrylic glass, or paper can be fun! In this post, I'll share which laser cutter I bought last year, what I created so far, and what I learned along the way.

Xubuntu 20.04 LTS on Thinkpad L15

Henning Jacobs — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 16:42:00 GMT

Installing Xubuntu 20.04 LTS on a new Lenovo Thinkpad L15 was relatively painless, but involves a few steps. Especially the pre-installed Windows 10 makes it harder than necessary.

Secure Scuttlebutt - SSB

Henning Jacobs — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 18:15:00 GMT

Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) is a Free-as-in-Freedom decentralized (p2p) social network. I joined the "Scuttleverse" last December. The Scuttleverse is a strange place. Strange, but friendly and welcoming.

TSV - Tab Separated Values: My Favorite Format

Henning Jacobs — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 09:09:00 GMT

TSV (Tab-Separated Values) is a simple text format for tabular data. I'll describe how I work with TSV files on the command line and why TSV is my favorite format for tabular data.

Naming Applications and Microservices

Henning Jacobs — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 18:18:00 GMT

Naming is hard. Naming is communication. Going bananas with naming microservices? Probably something you will regret! This post proposes a few guidelines to follow when naming internal applications and components.

Date Formats: ISO 8601

Henning Jacobs — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 19:21:00 GMT

Date formats are plentiful and humans are creatures of habit. Communication in an international context mostly works, but date formats cause unnecessary confusion. Which date format to use?

Saving Cloud Costs with Kubernetes on AWS

Henning Jacobs — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 11:21:00 GMT

How to save cloud costs when running Kubernetes? There is no silver bullet, but this blog post describes a few tools to help you manage resources and reduce cloud spending.

Using OBS Studio with V4L2 for Google Meet

Henning Jacobs — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 16:21:00 GMT

Many people are now working remote ("WFH"). How to make the best out of video calls with Google Hangouts Meet? This blog post describes how to use OBS Studio with a virtual camera device (video loopback) on Linux to add effects and scenes for Google Meet video calls.

One Decade in Zalando Tech

Henning Jacobs — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 11:21:00 GMT

One decade. 10 years. In one company. Or did I actually work in four companies? This blog post is the long planned successor to my 2013 post My three year journey into Zalando Technology.