One of my favorite small scripts I’ve written this year is my pr script, which allows the user to simply enter pr into their terminal of choice and open a pull request without having to specify anything else. Repo Home and Secrets if git remote -v | grep -q “bitbucket”; ( more… )
I set out recently to get more fluent in TypeScript, and after getting comfortable with syntax in browser-based interpreters, the next step was to get TypeScript running locally. As this is generally useful information, I figured I would write a blog post to share my approach. Global ts-node Install Assuming ( more… )
I recently needed to build a Microsoft Teams bot to take simple commands and update a database. There are plenty of materials out there on this: tutorials and blog posts (like this one), an SDK, lots of docs from Microsoft, and yet I felt that all were either over-complicating the ( more… )
I wrote previously about coding the backend for Conway’s Game of Life with Python’s standard library. Unsatisfied with the relatively boring console output, I sought a GUI to give this simulation more visual appeal. We’ll be editing a copy of the same file we ended with in my last post. ( more… )
So this is kind of funny. For years, I’ve heard references to an algorithm for the Game of Life, and I always pictured this: I’ve never actually played this game, so I didn’t think about it too hard and figured it must be some weird case where an algorithm could ( more… )
I was recently developing a project with an S3 bucket. One of the steps of the development process was to add a security layer to the S3 bucket, namely: Add server-side encryption to the bucket, ensuring that data is encrypted at rest. Enforce SSL on all interactions with the bucket, ( more… )
I found myself in a position of needing to publish to WordPress programmatically recently, but despite using WordPress for years, I’d never delved into its API before now. There are a few outdated Python modules out there, but none worked out of the box for me, so I figured I’d ( more… )
I’m currently enrolled in an introductory Unix course at FSU. With the midterm approaching, the best way for me to cover the material is to write it down, and why shouldn’t I go ahead and publish those hard-written words? Of course I will do that! General Concepts on Unix Unix is a ( more… )
Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4– Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7 I’m back with a somewhat unplanned part seven, where I’ll return to some topics that came up on the official practice exam for the Microsoft Technology Associate certification in Python. Many of these I touched on in previous posts, but I ( more… )
The Deluge by Synthstrom Audible is a remarkable music workstation that makes a number of things easy, one of which is acting as a versatile sampler. However, I’ve seen other users state concerns about a problem that I also recently started experiencing: there’s not an easy way to identify which ( more… )