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 […]
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 […]
Snooping through my package list, I noticed the PyGithub library was installed. Its repo boasts “Typed interactions with the GitHub API v3”. I googled the package, wanting to check in on the repos I profiled in an earlier post about static site generators. I drafted the code below after noticing the repo.stargazer_count function in its […]
Pelican is a popular static site generator library in Python. I didn’t know why my pelican blog was not working. I’ve used the “pelican content” command many times for my blog. This time, when attempting to write a new post on a new computer, I was getting this error where none of my posts were […]
There are usually many ways to do most things in Python. I’ve retrieved random numbers a few different ways at various times within the random module, often after reading a Stack Overflow post. This time in my most recent search for random digits, I discovered in the Python docs the random.sample() function with its k […]
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