This morning I’m meditating on my usual apps or websites I visit through the course of a typical day. I wonder how limited or expansive it could be in the span of all that’s waiting to be consumed on the internet. I like reading online or physical books too and writing. Consider your own circle […]
In September 2021, I tested out the recommended ads runner, WordAds, on this WordPress blog. 6,182 ads were served over the course of a month, earning $0.86 from impressions and clicks. My average CPM or cost per thousand impressions was $0.14. My blog averages about 1,600 views a month at the moment, mostly fueled by […]
Black is a code formatting tool that I have been testing out recently to see what the hype is about. It is the defacto “uncompromising code formatter in Python”. I normally do not use any code formatters since I’m not required to use them. This short post aims to convince you that Black is an […]
Write More Code Write code everyday. Code fast and break things. Cherish your tracebacks. Keep going back, no matter how hopeless it may seem. Code habitually. Learn how to code. Get better at code. Love code. Write Less Code Use as few lines as possible. Nothing looks better than a program shorter than 50 or […]
Lately I’ve been checking out the Yoast SEO plug-in and their REST API. The API returns all of the SEO metadata, meta tags, schema.org data, etc. for your WordPress blog posts. Here’s a Yoast API Python example script to fetch post metadata via requests and pandas: What this script is doing: Read a list of […]
webbrowser is a convenient Python standard library module. It opened my Firefox browser on my Ubuntu Linux operating system running on a Chromebook. This code is adapted from a Python Examples blog post. Below is a list of other browsers you can open with webbrowser. At the bottom of this post, you’ll find more tools […]
A static site generator creates static HTML and markdown files to serve as a website. They’re commonly used to host blogs but not exclusively. I recently researched my options to roll a static site in Python. I’m assessing a few of them as a potential future self-hosted blogging solution for this WordPress blog. Or maybe […]
I initially installed my Python version from the Windows Store and it worked fine for almost a year on my Windows 10 computer. Then I started getting this error message when trying to use the requests library on all HTTP requests: requests.exceptions.SSLError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host=’api.example.com’, port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /oauth/token?grant_type=client_credentials (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, ‘[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] […]
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: […]
Tonight I Googled “how to check if a variable is a tuple”, expecting to find a Stack Overflow isinstance() snippet. Instead, I found that i could use Python’s type built-in to check if my variable is a tuple: I thought that looked like a good solution until I found a section in PEP 8, Python’s […]
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