Filip Salo

Software engineer · Nyköping, Sweden

Three decades of trying to solve interesting problems with small solutions. Sometimes even succeeding.

Now: EdTech. Before: uptime and application monitoring, computational linguistics, teaching, web strategy consulting, early social media.

Code monkeying

Write templates and Markdown, compile to single binary production-grade web server with all your content baked in. Powers this site.

Swift

Create beautiful repeatable terminal screenshots without hassle.

Code

Python

A small Python profiler. Your new best friend.

Code

Profile this Sep 3, 2009

Name a variable label in Python 2.5, run cProfile, and watch it die with TypeError: 'str' object is not callable — maybe submit a patch before reaching for the fork.
An excercise in syntax abuse Jun 18, 2009

Overloading string subtraction in Python to produce character ranges — a random act of senselessness. Never do this sort of shit. Thank you.
Streamxmlwriter 0.2 released May 10, 2009

streamxmlwriter 0.2 is on PyPI — flexible, size-independent XML writing with pretty-printing and custom attribute sorting. pip install it, namespace support is experimental but it handles real work.
Text-safe XML processing with iterparse May 10, 2009
Visible whitespace in the shell May 23, 2008
Fear and motivation Dec 6, 2007
Unicode iterator Aug 29, 2007