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dsq is a commandline tool for running SQL queries against all the data file types that DataStation supports (JSON, CSV, Parquet, Excel, etc.). Here is a simple example:
I'll show you what good logging is with real-life examples. Most people don't know what to log, so they end up creating just noise....
I wrote a program that sends cats to my phone when I'm sad at the computer.
How to move a running process into a tmux session
Level 1: NOT BUSY My schedule is wide open. I can choose infinite paths. Zero commitments. The weekend. I sleep like a baby. Life is good, but am I living my be
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👋 Hello everyone. I'm Michael Hall and I will be your guide in Rosieland today. I want to start you off with a story about good intentions with bad outcomes. Hopefully, everybody has seen the Disney Pixar movie Monster’s Inc. by now. In the movie, the monster society runs on energy produced by children’s screams. Even…
D2 is a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams. It stands for
A review of the /e/ OS Android-alternative operating system for mobile devices, as used on the Teracube 2e smartphone.
What are the biggest trends and developments in web scraping? What does 2022, likely have in store for web scraping?
You'll often see instructions for creating and using disk images on Unix systems making use of the dd command. This is a strange program of [obscure provenance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix)) that somehow, still manages to survive in the 21st century.
Nix is all about applying functional programming to files and processes.
The Mac and Web have a long history together. From the very beginning, Mac OS X included the ability to run an Apache web server by clicking a Start button: About a decade ago, things started to change. Since then it’s gotten harder and harder to start a simple web server for testing HTML, CSS, […]
My friend Andrew is an advocate of the “spaced repetition” technique for memorization of a great many facts [1]. The ideas behind this are two-fold: When one first “learns” a new fact, it needs to be reviewed frequently in order to not forget it. However, with each additional review, the …
Pixelmator Pro is a powerful, easy-to-use image editor that brings professional tools and powerful AI features to everyone across Mac and iPad.
Textual is a TUI framework for Python, inspired by modern web development.
DevOops is a retired machine on HackTheBox. This write-up is a walk through the methodology that leads to root shell.
Production systems for ecommerce, finance, operations, and applied AI - built and operated for two decades.
Using SMS and MMS gateways we can send text messages to phones from a computer via email. With this strategy we can use a combination of the Python SMTP and email library to send text messages programmatically for free! This not only includes short text messages, but also multimedia messages with pictures, videos, or…
I am overjoyed to announce MaskerAid, my latest iOS app, which you can use to quickly and easily add emoji to images.
For coders without an internet connection, an offline dataset provides an essential encyclopedia
Three months ago, during my first Think Week, I realized that consistently working out would meaningfully improve my long term health and happiness.
