Type hints may be built-in classes (including those defined in standard library or third-party extension modules), abstract base classes, types available in the types module, and user-defined classes (including those defined in the standard library or third-party modules). PEP 3107 – van Rossum, Lehtosalo & Langa I’ve never written type hints for any of my […]
Today, I was granted access to Bing’s large language model, the next generation GPT-4. Bing’s chat is the “more powerful” successor to OpenAI‘s groundbreaking chat service that’s generating heaps of hype in addition to its AI text generation abilities. I gained the new chat functionality a few weeks after joining the Bing waitlist. A guilty […]
I usually find a lot of these tools from viewing GitHub’s trending repositories. When I find a novel repo, I’ll star it to remember for later. This is a list of free, open source software spanning security, AI, cloud, HTTP, JSON, monitoring, dev ops and more. I enjoy finding and cataloging new packages as much […]
Here is a quick and easy way to automate turning off your computer. This saves me about 15 seconds to manually click the start menu and restart buttons. It worked for me on an old, laggy HP computer running the Windows 10 operating system. Now, I can double-click a batch file on my Desktop and […]
I’m really enjoying using Pocket as my primary reading app on my cell phone. My top need is to download articles I find on the internet for offline viewing. This app does that and more in a smooth interface. This review reflects the perspective of using the Pocket Android version 8.1.1.0, pictured here: Key Features […]
You’re sure you’ve created a stellar solution to a problem at hand. You took the time to think an idea out and execute. You iterated tirelessly, making tweaks and creating a tool that will sell itself to potential human users. Everyone loves their own creation. Others will realize the tool’s value too! There’s only one […]
Here’s a short list of Python packages making a splash this year: Python + Rust = High Performance A common theme I’ve noticed is the emergence of Rust as a performance complement to Python code. It seems we can expect modularity between the two languages to strengthen their collective abilities. Python is still growing and […]
Typically, this blog reviews the other Python libraries in its vast ecosystem. This time, it’s my own package I made for fun, pymarketer. This was created in a single day and can be installed from the Github repo. Have a go at my most read post if you need help with pip. Install with pip […]
On my Windows subsystem for Linux environment, I am now publishing new blog posts following this Pelican-based workflow: The new blog post is now live! This is my own workflow for my Pelican blog, divbull.com, which is hosted for free with Cloudflare Pages. You can read more about connecting Pelican and Cloudflare in this past […]
Sometimes, we find ourselves on a public Wi-Fi connection that is “connected”, but unable to get to the login page. While the login page is triggered automatically on most mobile devices, computers may not connect so easily. As usual, I turned to Google to find a way to get to a public Wi-Fi login page. […]
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