Paolo Redaelli personal blog

Category: Tricks

ASCII, oh ASCII! Wherefore art thou, ASCII?

ASCII, oh ASCII! Wherefore art thou, ASCII? The original line copied by an infamous English poet Puns aside, in the XXI century there are still need to stick to plain, old 7 bit ASCII character table. Many industrial applications stick to it for its simplicity. Unicode is often an overkill in that situations.

One liner, static web-server

willurd on web-servers.md show quite a few one-liner (or mostly) commands that will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. I think I will use only the Python 3.x version which is as simple as