In this post I describe what the n + 1 problem is, how it relates to graphene-sqlalchemy, I describe some possible solutions and finally I’ll describe the solution I created for a project that uses graphene-sqlalchemy for my current employer (NRC Media B.V.).

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Posted by Ingmar Steen on Sun 24 February 2019 22:30

I’ve released version 0.6.1 of pelican-albums (my image album and thumbnail plugin for pelican). This release brings a single change:

  • Add support for pelican 4.0.0.

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Posted by Ingmar Steen on Sat 23 February 2019 21:19

I recently ran across a problem where one of the Scaleway servers I rent no longer booted because it could not mount /dev/nbd1 after a reboot:

Give root password for maintenance

The canonical solution to problems like these in the age of the cloud is to delete the machine and to provision a new …

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Posted by Ingmar Steen on Sat 27 May 2017 17:55

For a new project, I needed wxPython. Now, wxPython is notoriuous for being a pain to install inside a virtual environment on OSX. And if you do get wxPython installed in a virtual environment, you’ll notice the following error message when creating a wx.App instance:

This program needs …

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Posted by Ingmar Steen on Fri 12 June 2015 22:58

The context of this rant is a conversation with Tracy Osborn on the importpython blog.

On the surface, the linked article tells an endearing tale about a woman whom, after several setbacks, one of them related to the schism between web design and programming, manages to launch a successful startup …

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Posted by Ingmar Steen on Thu 07 May 2015 21:17

Recently, I’ve been working on a new project. It’s called Pelicide and it’s an IDE for sites built with the Pelican Static Site Generator. It consists of a web service which is written in python and uses the twisted framework which serves the main web interface, an …

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Posted by Ingmar Steen on Tue 28 April 2015 22:37

I’ve released version 0.6.0 of pelican-albums (my image album and thumbnail plugin for pelican). This release brings two new features:

  • Setting the output quality of JPEG thumbnails.
  • Allow changing the output format of thumbnails to PNG.

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Posted by Ingmar Steen on Tue 28 April 2015 21:07

In this article, I describe my current set up for writing content for my pelican based sites on my phone.

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Posted by Ingmar Steen on Wed 15 April 2015 21:08

In this article I describe a way to share a pelican install between multiple authors using a workflow which involves GitHub and an automated server-side build system.

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Posted by Ingmar Steen on Tue 14 April 2015 21:09

I’ve released version 0.5.1 of pelican-albums (my image album and thumbnail plugin for pelican). The most significant change (apart from some documentation improvements) is that it now automatically excludes documents inside the album path from becoming articles or pages.

Get it now:

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Posted by Ingmar Steen on Tue 14 April 2015 12:00

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