When to use Pip3 instead of Pip in Python
If you have multiple versions of Python installed on a system, such as both Python 2.7 and Python 3.6+. Then pip will often refer to… Read More »When to use Pip3 instead of Pip in Python
How to use Screen on Linux
Screen on Linux is a popular command-line program that lets you multiplex between interactive shells. What that means is, you can use screen to save… Read More »How to use Screen on Linux
Transfer a domain from Namecheap
Namecheap is a pretty good registrar. As its name says, yes, it is usually pretty cheap. I would also like to point out that I… Read More »Transfer a domain from Namecheap
How to Package a Python App using Nuitka
Learn how to package a Python app in this tutorial. For the most part, once you’ve written your Python code, you simply deploy it to… Read More »How to Package a Python App using Nuitka
Introduction to NPM
What is NPM? NPM stands for Node Package Manager, and is the default way to extend your Node applications. There are an absolute ton of… Read More »Introduction to NPM
How to create a Symbolic Link on Linux / Mac
A symbolic link – or often just sym-link – is a pointer or shortcut to where the actual file lives on a filesystem. What does… Read More »How to create a Symbolic Link on Linux / Mac
Non-interactive git clone (ssh fingerprint prompt)
If you have ever been in the annoying situation where you had to run git clone from a server that you did not have interactive… Read More »Non-interactive git clone (ssh fingerprint prompt)
When your Python code is much faster with PyPy
Python is a very powerful language, there are so many libraries available for it. However, many developers will complain about its speed by comparison to… Read More »When your Python code is much faster with PyPy
Font Awesome Brand Icons
Font Awesome is a fantastic CSS enhancement library that lets you show vector icons instead of having to use images yourself. Instead of worrying about… Read More »Font Awesome Brand Icons
What it takes to be a Platform Engineer in 2020
Platform Engineering is something that grew out of a mix of what software developers and sysadmins had been doing for years. The only real difference… Read More »What it takes to be a Platform Engineer in 2020
Introduction to PIP – Python Package Manager
Python comes with a fully equipped package manager called PIP – which stands for the Python Package Manager. PIP gives your python applications access to… Read More »Introduction to PIP – Python Package Manager
How to build a website quickly using PHP
PHP is a powerful scripting language created for the web. It has come a long way since it’s initial inception in 1994. It was originally… Read More »How to build a website quickly using PHP
How to replace all occurrences of a string in Javascript
I have pretty much resigned myself to the fact that in Javascript, there are really only two ways to do a proper search and replace.… Read More »How to replace all occurrences of a string in Javascript
How to exit Vim
If only I had a dollar for every time I saw someone sitting at their computer, trying for the life of them to exit vim… Read More »How to exit Vim
How to Setup and Use the Python Virtual Environment
Python is a fantastic language that continues to help so many businesses and individuals. It offers readable syntax to get started, yet extensive amounts of… Read More »How to Setup and Use the Python Virtual Environment
Introducing the Hetzner Cloud
I could honestly not tell you how many hosting providers I’ve tried over the past 15 years. Probably more than 30, 40… Easily! Today I… Read More »Introducing the Hetzner Cloud
Multiprocessing in Python3
Now that you have the code; let’s explain: Import the multiprocessing library Define the function that will run each time a process is executed Keep… Read More »Multiprocessing in Python3
How to Install MongoDB on Mac
You can use Homebrew to install MongoDB on a Mac. For ages you were able to simply do: brew install mongodb, but more recently, that… Read More »How to Install MongoDB on Mac
The Best Note Taking Apps
We’re all using a Note Taking App these days, they’re incredibly useful and come jam packed with loads of features. But which ones shine out… Read More »The Best Note Taking Apps
How to Delete large amount of files in directory
So you have clearly got a very large amount of files! If you issue the conventional rm -rf * within the directory, you will get… Read More »How to Delete large amount of files in directory
How to Merge multiple files, removing duplicate values
If you have multiple files and you want to remove duplicate values from, while creating a single file. File1 (one.txt): File2 (two.txt): As you can… Read More »How to Merge multiple files, removing duplicate values
Unable to delete an AWS Internet Gateway
So you need to delete an AWS Internet Gateway, sounds good. You navigate to the VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) dashboard and go to Internet Gateways.… Read More »Unable to delete an AWS Internet Gateway
How Distributed Applications Work
Distributed Applications come in a wide range of sizes, usages and resource availabilities. What is a Distributed Application? A perfect example of a Distributed Application… Read More »How Distributed Applications Work
Why Artificial Intelligence (AI) won’t necessarily take your job
Artificial Intelligence, or simply AI these days, is when computers are able to perform tasks that humans would otherwise do. While this is incredibly exciting… Read More »Why Artificial Intelligence (AI) won’t necessarily take your job
The difference between ‘git fetch’ and ‘git pull’
Git Pull vs Fetch Many of us take a look at git fetch and git pull and believe them to do the exact same thing!… Read More »The difference between ‘git fetch’ and ‘git pull’