Jan-Philip Gehrcke, PhD

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recent posts

LaTeX: jump/skip to the bottom of a page

Aug 2011
The best and simplest tools to create a basic WebSocket application with Flash fallback and Python on the server side

Jun 2011
Reading files line by line in C++ using ifstream: dealing correctly with badbit, failbit, eofbit, and perror()

Jun 2011
PyMOL: Remove hydrogens and water

Jun 2011
Flash socket policy server in Python based on gevent

Jun 2011

selected thoughts

The scientific method: in normal times you don’t give a fuck about it

Apr 2020
GitHub: Y? Y!

Mar 2020
JavaScript: use the finally clause in generators with caution

Mar 2020
Time lapse video of raw photos (ffmpeg)

Feb 2020
Running an eBPF program may require lifting the kernel lockdown

Sep 2019
JavaScript in a browser: create a binary blob from a base64-encoded string, and decode it using UTF-8.

May 2015
In-memory SQLite database and Flask: a threading trap

May 2015
Sharing state in AngularJS: be aware of $watch issues and race conditions during app initialization

Nov 2014
Mojibake: Beatport’s ID3 text encoding is broken

Jul 2014
Steven D. Schafersman’s Introduction to Science

Jun 2014
Distributing a Python command line application

Feb 2014
A command line argument is raw binary data. It comes with limitations and needs interpretation.

Feb 2014
Reading files line by line in C++ using ifstream: dealing correctly with badbit, failbit, eofbit, and perror()

Jun 2011