Introduction Quite often I find that I need to serve some files for viewing in a web browser. Most recently, I needed to do this with an in progress OpenAPI document as rendered by ReDoc. All I needed was something that can serve static files. I really didn’t want to take the time to setup and configure something like Apache or Nginx. These are overkill for static files on a developer machine....
Introduction Sometimes I need to write a simple network server to emulate an application I’m integrating with. Typically, this is ends up being a throw away Python script that allows me to easily inspect at a request and returns a basic response. It’s handy to verify what I’m sending isn’t malformed. Also, it helps to ensure my response parser is at least somewhat sane. The software I work on requires a TLS secured connection to all remote end points....
The other day it was announced I am now the maintainer of the Sigil. Back in June Strahinja announced that he was looking for someone to take over the project. I highly respect the work Strahinja has done with Sigil and this is a project I don’t want to see die. I myself use Sigil one occasion and when dealing with e-books I often find myself recommending its use. After seeing the announcement by Strahinja that it was time to move on I contacted him about taking over in his stead....