Intro: This is part one of an eight part series looking at the Elevator Explorer, a fun data interactive mostly coded between the hours of 10 PM to 2 AM during the week leading up to April Fools’ Day, 2013. I’m going to be looking at the things I learned, things I wish I could…
Read More Dissecting Elevators part 1: rapid models.py developmentSo this weekend, I decided to scratch my own itch and figure out a way to play a random media file. Let’s say you’ve got a lot of tv shows or movies and you don’t want to browse… you want to channel surf. This is how you can do it in Windows: chcp 65001 setlocal…
Read More Media Roulette.batI just got back from my first PyCon! There were a lot of familiar faces. Which is quite an achievement for an introvert like myself. I finally got to meet people in the Python community as far away as Austin, TX. While finding people was easy in a crowd of 2,500, finding food was not.…
Read More PyCon US 2013 Wrap UpIf you’re having a hard time talking to a server started with `python- m SimpleHTTPServer` on a virtual machine, there’s an easy fix. Add the host PC to the virtual machine’s hosts file. The problem arises because the logger tries to report the full name of the request origin, which I never bother setting up…
Read More Fixing python -m SimpleHTTPServerLazyColor has been updated! Why choose just from standardized colors when you can could be choosing from colors that sort of also look like real words!
Read More LazyColor updated!If you’re doing any development in Python, odds are you’re using virtualenv. And if you’re using virtualenv, odds are you’re using virtualenvwrapper. I came up with a few tricks to make my life easier, and I thought I ought to share them. And as a disclaimer: although I am obsessed with discovering best practices, these…
Read More A few virtualenv tipsI started investigating CSS frameworks almost a year ago. Back then, the two main contenders were SASS and LESS. Well, there’s really three contenders if you count SASS and SCSS separately, but between those two, SCSS “won”, and in the future, when I say SASS, I mean SCSS. Based on hearsay on the Internet, people…
Read More SASS vs LESSIn the past, whenever I’ve done HTML, I’ve been bipolar. Either do whatever had to get done just to get the page rendered right, or stick to the lofty tenets of html5 and write semantic markup. Now that I’ve bounced between those two for a while now, I’ve learned a few things: Doing everything semantically…
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