I decided to attempt making a YouTube video downloader on the fly tonight after watching a stream where the creator questioned how to download YouTube videos. The easiest answer is to google sites like y2mate that work for downloading videos. But then I thought, I wonder if I can make something! Boredom, my curiosity and […]
My goal was to automate posting positive photos and quotes to my Facebook page, “Positive Thoughts Daily“, with the Unsplash and Facebook APIs. Here’s how I did it! This implementation relies on my own collection of photos on Unsplash. I will manually select which photos I like to get added to my collection. Then my […]
introduction SQLite is one of the heavy hitters in the database space, up there with other popular choices like MySQL, Postgres, Microsoft SQLServer, Cassandra and MariaDB. There is no shortage of database technologies but SQLite is certainly one that is commonly used. It also has a positive reputation. Its terminal interface reminds me of MySQL. […]
You may want to download an archive of your tweets before deleting them. I did this and it took about a day to get my archive download. How To Purge Your Tweet History with Python Per the Tweepy library documentation, install tweepy with pip. It worked fine in my python 3.8 virtual environment. 2. Sign […]
Your life is a game of trade-offs. You spend x units of energy on x thing in order to gain something from it. You only have a limited number of energy and focus units. Each life interest you pursue comes with a cost per benefit units returned. Some examples of this might be: cooking vs. […]
Truly enjoying this Intro to Database Systems course from Carnegie Mellon University. Some really great breakdowns of common join algorithms in this lecture. Here are my notes. Lecture 11- Join Algorithms (CMU Databases Systems / Fall 2019) Prof. Andy Pavlo, Carnegie Mellon Database Group screenshot from lecture Table Positioning for a Join “In general, your […]
Follow the three step path to enlightenment and productivity gained: Write scripts. Follow them manually. Refine and automate if preferable. Below I “scripted” out catching my flight from Chicago’s O’hare Airport to Denver. Writing things down is often the first step to realizing what needs done. Ideally, you’d turn those written steps into a script […]
Preface These are my YouTube lecture notes from MIT’s Distributed Systems course. Thank you MIT and Professor Morris! MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems Lecture 2: RPC and Threads – Feb 7, 2020 Prof. Robert Morris (Spring 2020) Introduction Go is a popular programming language choice so my ears perked up when this lecture began. These notes […]
Thank you Carnegie Mellon Database Group for putting this online! These are my notes from watching on YouTube. Carnegie Mellon Databases Storage II, Lecture 4 Prof. Andy Pavlo [Watch on YouTube] The Problem and Solution How should the DBMS represent the database in storage files on disk? Solve it by choosing the right storage model […]
Below you’ll find a balanced curriculum of juicy courses and videos that are available for free on the internet. I’ll definitely be diving into most of these in the 2nd half of 2020. Stay curious! University CS Courses For Free CS50’s Web Programming with Python and JavaScript | Harvard University CS 61-C Great Ideas in […]
