When unit testing using Python and Selenium, it’s usually easiest to click a button with an element’s ID, but I’ve found a more flexible solution that doesn’t require multiple different function calls to be best. To that end, here’s a method I’ve written that one can use to click a ( more… )
Sara and I attended a lot of great events this last quarter, and not all of them were music-related. I don’t have as much time as I’d like to describe everything in excruciating detail, but July is already almost over, so I’m just going to bang this one out. April ( more… )
of Montreal put on a crazy show last weekend, but instead of writing a full report about it, I decided to just compile a little concert film of the best moments – at least until my battery cut out during the last song, directly before the four encore tunes, which ( more… )
For 2018, I wrote a post on tons of live music Sara, my wife, and I saw during the year. It took a long time and much of it was not fresh in my mind, so for value, I decided to break down 2019 into parts. It has definitely been ( more… )
Sometimes one’s work environment leaves one doing things in weird ways, like storing data in an Excel spreadsheet rather than a database. I have found myself in this situation before, and while it’s not exactly ideal, libraries like openpyxl make things a little bit more possible. In my situation, I knew that in ( more… )
I’ve had a lot of “current favorite” bands in my life, but they have rarely coincided with times I’m actively going to shows and when those bands are actively playing. I got to see Elliott Smith in 2001 and Joanna Newsom in 2010 and would have classified each as my ( more… )
I’m working on my FreeCodeCamp JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures certificate. I’ve used regular expressions quite a bit in various projects, but I’ve never really felt confident about them, you know? When I read this problem, though, I knew I was going to need to develop some mastery, because there’s not a ( more… )
A site I write and maintain, TallyMusic.net, is designed to help people quickly and easily find local music events, but until recently, it lacked a date filter. This made it hard for users to plan for future events, as the user has to scroll through everything sooner before finding the ( more… )
I acquired a Korg Volca Sample recently and have been having a ton of fun. However, the factory samples just weren’t doing it for me – frankly, I didn’t like them at all. I tried a number of sample packs that Volca fans have posted online, and I found some ( more… )
I had the vast pleasure to see of Montreal play live in December 2017. It was an extraordinary show and it reinvigorated my love for live music in a big way, so I vowed to see more concerts in 2018. My wife, Sara, was all too happy to join me ( more… )