Taking advantage of *args and **kwargs
Taking Advantage of *args and **kwargs I consistently forget the option word I have included in a function and so I had to design a way to accept diff ... »
Personal Coding Workflow
Some thoughts on personal coding workflow My coding is rudimentary at best but the lessons I have learned along the way save me from constan ... »
gtoolz
The python3 collection of tools called gtoolz has been released and can be downloaded from github ... »
Quick-n-Dirty python3 tools => gtools.py
gtools.py can be downloaded from: gtools.py I wrote these tools over the past many y ... »
Fixing Flipped or Reversed Web Images
The tool of choice is mogrify which come from the imagemagic package on your linux platform. I had one image that looked fine when I display ... »
Python's all() function
Python all() function Much of my coding efforts are directed towards analyzing financial data specifically targeting potential cash secured puts or co ... »
Managing Vim and Essential Plugins
Our last post discussed using fisa-vimrc and appreciating the simple installation and ease of use. This post will explore, briefly, some tweaks and ... »
Vim-Plug Quick Setup
I want you to try this .vimrc setup. I have had my own .vimrc for years. I recently came across ... »
Quick Note about fabric and pipenv
I have posted several articles about python fabric and yet I failed to warn you about the dangers of version and module chaos. Initially, fa ... »
Python fabric - Dynamically Discover Hosts
Python fabric is a library tool for executing ssh commands remotely and responding as you desire. I use python fabric for promoting code and web co ... »
Replace PHP with WSGI python
This post is a brief description of replacing PHP code with python using WSGI (Web Server Gateway Interface). The journey here comes from how I mon ... »
Using a generic git pre-commit hook
test_it && commit_it || reject_it Using a pre-commit script when committing code makes sense an ... »
Vim ALE
VIM is a standard for me. My UNIX career hung on my “vi” savvy which I learned appreciate from mentors who encouraged me to learn the t ... »
Vim Scriptable Templates
Dynamic vim Templates Vim (or vi in the anceint past) has been my partner in getting things done. Like an rich ... »
Hugo and Fabric
Python Fabric is a denatured version of ansible and, if you enjoy python, fabric makes a small scale devops strategy a whole lot less painful. Comb ... »
Fabric_vs_ansible
I have wrestled with ansible for too long. It is an awesome tool but you need to learn the syntax of three different languages (ansible, yaml, and ... »
How this theme evolved
Announcing a new project: newspaper-hugo-subtheme First credit goes to Silke V at co ... »
MagicMirro2 and fauxmo
Warning: what follows is a cascade of issues and lessons l ... »
Sorting IPs
I scan my home network frequently. There are a good number of smarthome devices, raspberry pies, phones, laptops, PCs etc. Using nmap to quickly sc ... »
Quick N Dirty Python Debug Function
Pdb is a great debugger for python but I like to use my own simple debug functions. Here is a simple debug function for python which could definite ... »
Raspberry Pi and Xrdp
I decided to have some remote desktop fun with one of my raspberry pies. Remote desktop for the raspberry pi (or any linux machine) can be done so ... »
Sometimes It Is The Obvious
This was one of those “problems” that nagged me for many hours until the obvious dawned on me. I wrote a python script to grab the temp ... »
Always Use Visudo
“familiarity breeds contempt” I get very comfortable with using the vim editor (take cover&he ... »
Recursively Replace Text
Recently I had to do a find and replace text on multiple files recursively. I had to look up how to do it to remind myself of the exact syntax. If ... »
Switched to Hugo
I am swtiching from jekyll to hugo for flat file for a Content Managment System (CMS). ... »
