Ferdinand Keil's

electronic notes

Jan 29, 2022

Quickly Serve a Local Directory

When working on HTML files some things won't work if they're just opened from the local hard-drive. The solution is to present them to your browser through some kind of webserver. Setting up a proper webserver like nginx or Apache would be overkill here.

But if Python is available in …

Okt 12, 2021

Breaking up Exceptions

These days I stumbled upon a weird problem where a Python script of mine would silently fail to save some data to a file. Turns out you can suppress exceptions in a loop with break 😧.

Let me start by outlining what I was trying to achieve: I have a process …

Mai 15, 2021

Accelerated Testing Tip #2: Build an Automatic Water Supply

Running accelerated tests at elevated humidity levels in a climate chamber requires a (constant) supply of deionized water to feed the humidifier. Sealing the chamber goes a long way to minimize the loss of water during the test, however the setup will never be vapor-tight. The water supply needs to …

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