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Niteo IRL#17 – Taiwan

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Niteo IRL#17 – Taiwan

The year on the calendar turned to 2026. Time for New Year’s resolutions and improving IRL 17 in Taipei, Taiwan.

Jan 27, 2026 · Amon Stopinšek

Designing your WordPress blog with a Tailwind CSS theme

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Designing your WordPress blog with a Tailwind CSS theme

Tawind is a WordPress theme that uses Tailwind CSS. It only loads the required CSS on each page, making it extremely fast.

Oct 7, 2025 · Dejan Murko

Subdomain vs Subfolder: The SEO Debate Settled

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Subdomain vs Subfolder: The SEO Debate Settled

So, should you have your blog on a subdomain or a subfolder? If there were no technical limitations, the answer would’ve always been a subfolder. But given...

Oct 5, 2025 · Dejan Murko

Using Cloudflare Workers to proxy a WordPress blog to domain.tld/blog

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Using Cloudflare Workers to proxy a WordPress blog to domain.tld/blog

TL;DR: If you have a WordPress blog deployed on a subdomain of your main website, and you want to show it under `/blog` for SEO purposes, use Cloudflare...

Oct 2, 2025 · Dejan Murko

DevOpsDays Ljubljana 2025

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DevOpsDays Ljubljana 2025

I recently had the chance to go to my first tech conference, DevOpsDays in Ljubljana. Since I was still new to DevOps, I wasn’t sure how much I would...

Sep 24, 2025 · Maja Rovtar

From Frustration to Power: What We Learned at Nixcademy

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From Frustration to Power: What We Learned at Nixcademy

We recently completed two days of Nixcademy training, exploring the powerful yet complex Nix and NixOS ecosystem. After five years of experience, the course still offered valuable insights—especially about overlays and fixed-point recursion—that turn frustration into empowerment. If you're working with Nix or planning to, this course can save you months of struggle.

Jul 31, 2025 · Gasper Vozel

Sprint season is open

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Sprint season is open

I used to go to a ton of sprints.

Feb 21, 2025 · Neyts Zupan

Niteo IRL#15 - Kranjska Gora

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Niteo IRL#15 - Kranjska Gora

Our 15th In-Real-Life meetup is in the books! Hard to believe our first IRL was back in 2016 in Croatia. Eight years and countless memories later, we...

Jan 29, 2025 · Dejan Murko

NixCon 2024 Berlin

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NixCon 2024 Berlin

Ever since the day NixCon 2024 dates were published, I was sad I was not going to be able to make it due to some personal stuff taking place that week. But...

Nov 11, 2024 · Neyts Zupan

PyCon JP 2024

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PyCon JP 2024

Another year, another fantastic PyCon Japan! This year’s conference in Tokyo was filled with insightful talks, interesting conversations, and a welcoming...

Oct 2, 2024 · Bjørnar Myrheim

Niteo IRL#13 - Lanzarote

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Niteo IRL#13 - Lanzarote

For the 13th IRL edition, we gathered at our Niteo house in Lanzarote. Nejc had already hosted a few Ocean sprints at the house, so everything ran...

Jan 24, 2024 · Amon Stopinšek

EuroPython 2023

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EuroPython 2023

EuroPython in 2018 was my first international conference. After five years, I eagerly joined another EuroPython.

Aug 8, 2023 · Amon Stopinšek

Niteo Summer IRL meetup in Ljubljana

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Niteo Summer IRL meetup in Ljubljana

Our summer In-Real-Life meetup was held in Ljubljana, in the heart of Slovenia. The first things you see as you approach it are castles, numerous parks, and...

Jul 31, 2023 · Marta Kozak

Niteo IRL#11 - Manila

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Niteo IRL#11 - Manila

Mabuhay! It’s winter 2023 and time for our in-real-life meetup. It's our 11th IRL, but this will be my first time joining one. Because of the COVID...

Feb 3, 2023 · Marta Kozak

Fast development on NixOS

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Fast development on NixOS

We've been using NixOS for a few years, and it has proven to be a stable and reliable OS. More importantly, it's declarative and reproducible, which is one...

Nov 10, 2022 · Gasper Vozel

PyCon JP 2022

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PyCon JP 2022

It’s good to be back! The past two PyCons in Japan have been online, so it was nice to be back in person where you could actually enjoy the little things in...

Nov 1, 2022 · Bjørnar Myrheim

NixCon Paris 2022

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NixCon Paris 2022

After three years, we finally got a proper IRL NixCon. Since the Nix community is not the biggest one, it was nice to talk about Nix for three days (two at...

Oct 24, 2022 · Gasper Vozel

Indispensable pytest plugins

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Indispensable pytest plugins

I’ve been babbling on about testing for a decade now. Here’s a quick list of pytest plugins I use in most of my Python projects:

Oct 7, 2022 · Neyts Zupan

Niteo IRL#10

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Niteo IRL#10

Man… I can’t believe it has been two and a half years since I was abroad. The last time was actually IRL#8 in Bangkok, Thailand. A global pandemic and...

Aug 1, 2022 · Bjørnar Myrheim

PyCon.IT 2022

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PyCon.IT 2022

At the beginning of the month, I made a quick road trip down to Florence for this year's edition of PyCon Italia. I try to never miss a chance for a...

Jun 26, 2022 · Neyts Zupan

OceanSprint 2022

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OceanSprint 2022

The mind has not yet completely recovered from all the brain explosions that happened during OceanSprint 2021, and I was already planning the next one. I've...

Jun 9, 2022 · Neyts Zupan

How we spent $980,000 on a failed SaaS project

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How we spent $980,000 on a failed SaaS project

Three months after we closed the sale of WooCart, our project that was gonna “make it big”, I am ready to review the full financial consequences of our failure: $700k loss.

May 23, 2022 · Dejan Murko