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Google Colab is a fantastic environment to write Python code using Jupyter Notebooks, hosted for free by Google. If you’ve ever used Jupyter Notebooks before,… Read More »How to Measure Execution Time in Google Colab
A User-Agent is a bunch of text that is sent with every HTTP and HTTPS request. The server processing this request is able to determine… Read More »How to fake a User Agent in Python
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There are many occasions where you need to INSERT a record into a MySQL database table, but the record already exists. INSERT INTO queue_domains (domain)… Read More »REPLACE INTO instead of INSERT INTO – MySQL
Using Operating System Commands in Python Use the Linux/Mac tail command to provide the data: Creating a Python Only Script Read the whole file into… Read More »Read the bottom n lines of a file in Python
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AngularJS is a Javascript Framework that allows you to create dynamic front-end web applications easily. I have traditionally packaged these applications through NodeJS, and Grunt… Read More »How to Host an AngularJS site on AWS S3
Sending emails using Python and AWS’ SES service is really easy. They provide an SMTP server that you can authenticate against and send email programmatically… Read More »How to send emails using Python and AWS SES SMTP
If you need to generate a random number between two numbers in JavaScript, then you are in the right place! We can easily do this… Read More »Generate a random number between two numbers in JavaScript
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Sometimes you may need to read the top n lines of a file using Python. We start by opening the file for reading and then… Read More »Read the top n lines of a file in Python
I operate a bunch of different sites and have done for many years now. Some of them get quite a lot of traffic and require… Read More »How Fast is your Website?
It’s very easy to reset files that have not yet been committed to git. Reset a single file You can also specify the filename as… Read More »How to Git Reset a Single File
Golang comes with a decent offering around variables that you can use to store, retrieve and manipulate information. A variable is defined with the var… Read More »Introducing Variables in Golang
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Learning Go or Golang as a Python developer, programmer or software engineer is easier than you think. While there are quite a lot of things… Read More »Learn Golang as a Python Developer
Programming languages provide the ability to remove special characters from a string quite easily. Sometimes you need to also do this from your command-line using… Read More »Remove Special Characters in a String using Bash
Let’s say that you have two dates: How would you create a function that would return the number of days between these two dates? Introducing… Read More »Get the Amount of Days Between Two Dates in Python
Given a directory that contains: We can create a runme.sh file to always make sure we are running python 3. Create a shell script Create… Read More »How to Always run Python 3 from Bash
Kubernetes comes with a pretty nice dashboard to view clusters, worker groups, nodes and pods. As well as a ton of other useful things. This… Read More »How to Run the Kubernetes Dashboard Locally
Given that we are in a leap year this year (2020), it would be nice to know how to programmatically calculate this. Luckily, this is… Read More »How to tell if a year is a Leap Year in Python