Here are a few Python concepts for beginners to explore if you are starting out with the language. In this post, I’ll highlight my favorite “must-learn” tools to master that come with your Python installation. Understanding them will make you a more capable Python programmer and problem solver. 1. Built-in Functions. They are awesome! You […]
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! […]
How do you calculate stock valuation metrics like Sharpe ratio? Recently I’ve been reading about common stock valuation metrics and wondered how I can apply them to my stock portfolio. I started reading about different metrics, sketching formulas and entertained writing a script to calculate these metrics. But Python has no shortage of finance-related libraries. […]
Here are 20 random technology-oriented Wikipedia links I recently collected after re-organizing troves of bookmarked links accumulated over the past few years. These articles peek into the wide variety of things to learn about that exist in Computer Science. ABL. Always. Be. Learning. Curiosity and well organized browser bookmarks are your friend. I support Wikipedia […]
Introduction Recently an old idea came back to life. I’ve posted to a Facebook Page for several years as part of project I started on a whim. The goal of the page is to share anything positive and inspirational by famous thinkers, artists and creators I read, or simply something positive to meditate on. It […]
How do you 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 some googling turned up the pytube3 library, “A lightweight, dependency-free Python 3 library (and command-line utility) for downloading YouTube Videos.” […]
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. […]