You might know you can use the tab key to view the files in a folder one at a time on the command line. However, I recently stumbled into another way to help navigate folders with a lot of files in the command line. Let’s say you’re looking for a file named “stuff.txt”. Type “s”. […]
The first step to offloading a task is writing down how to complete it. Once the process is typed into a lean text file or wiki page, it can be learned by another human. This helps your team, but what’s in it for you? The most selfish programmers probably want to free up their time […]
Who is the world’s greatest footballer, Messi or Ronaldo? EA Sports surely has calculated the answer to this question in their player ratings. They rate peak Crisitiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Luka Modrić at 99 overall, with Neymar and Lewandowski at 98. Anecdotally, Messi has won 7 Ballon d’Or, the highest individual football honor one […]
Yesterday, I experienced a flow state where I became manically obsessed with perfecting a script I was working on. I think it’s beautiful code, about 100 lines long without docstrings. It solves a real need and it felt great to write it. Some scripts feel terrible to write and you know they’re bad. However, this […]
When assessing your environment, problem or your goal, meticulously scout the tools at your disposal. When you’re learning a new job, a new project or a programming language’s tools for example, it pays to have a grasp of your options. Researching what documentation, guides, tools or libraries are at your disposal will help you accomplish […]
Can it be scripted? Ask yourself this question about everything you do. Every application opened, website viewed and task you knock out in the course of a day might be worth writing a script to automate. As an example, here is a Windows batch file that opens 3 websites I visit frequently: Open Websites.bat Save […]
Today I scoured the internet for tools written in Python that assist writing in any form. After some relentless Google and Github searching, here are my favorites. I found tools to help write modular stories and novels, screenwriting with Trelby and several libraries for academic papers. I haven’t tried all of these… yet! Storywriting manuskript: […]
After 12 years with Gmail as my primary email inbox, I wanted to clear out old “Promotions” emails. This can be done with some clever use of Gmail’s search syntax shown below. I wanted to preserve my “Starred” emails, but delete old emails to free up space. I was able to delete 58,000 “Promotions” emails! […]
I am a beginner to testing my code. I wanted to write about testing to better understand it. While shaping this link fest masquerading as an essay, I collected great ideas from people who are way more experienced than me. You’ll find a few of my thoughts, a Pytest example I use to monitor files, […]
You may or may not be familiar with PyCon‘s Lightning Talks, a session of quick hitter talks given each year on a variety of topics. These “Lightning Scripts” are ten of my favorite Python scripts that have served me well as of late to perform a variety of tasks. Highlights include the glob, os, calendar, […]
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