20260123 ANSI to UTF8 Part 1: Intro
My journey converting ANSI art files for my linux terminal
20250623 F-String number formatting
Tips and tricks for using f-strings to format numbers in python
20250519 Get unix time FAST with pure bash
Faster than the beloved
date +%s
20250506 Dictionary slice in Python
Creating an equivalent of Ruby’s ‘Hash.slice’ in python
20250102 OSX dark mode shortcut
How to toggle between Light & Dark Appearance with a keyboard shortcut
20241210 Christmas Tree Lights with Arduino
And a 5V WS8211 LED string 🎄
20241128 Comparing Lists or Matrices
Functional approaches to compare sequences in Python
20240829 Using JQ with style
Colour/theme configuration for jq
20240828 Filtering Nones from a Python list
Functional approaches to filter out None items from a python list
20240411 Join and Coalesce in Pyspark
Join two dataframes and merge their columns
20240403 Allow flatpak to use secondary hard drives
Useful when sharing a steam installation
20240310 My Favourite Surf Maps
[Counter-Strike] A list of my favourite CS Surf maps
20240129 CS CFG tricks #1
[Counter-Strike] Execute multiple commands with a single keybind
20240126 CS Surf - Toggle all saveloc keybinds
Use one key to toggle all of your saveloc keybinds on and off
20231105 CS2 Surf
The configs that I use for CS2 surf, currently a WIP
20230919 Parsing BOMs in Python
How to detect/read/write UTF 8/16 BOMs
20230704 Jupyter Cell Wrappers
Adding decorator-style functionality to jupyter cells
20230605 PySpark Fu
Some non-trivial pyspark examples
20230406 Installing Github Copilot
The start of my journey with Github Copilot - installation!
20230322 Dictionary Paths
Accessing or modifying nested keys and values
20230311 Simplify with islice
Showcasing a very useful method from the itertools module
20220718 CSGO Surf
The configs that I use for CSGO surf, plus any other tips and tricks I can think of
20220703 FSTAB
A basic guide on creating /etc/fstab entries for automatically mounting secondary partitions at boot
20220610 awscli / boto3 snippets
Handy code & command snippets for AWS services
20220518 Minecraft
Minecraft for linux! Help, commands, mods etc. for both client & server.
20220511 Bash Practices
A few “good-practice” techniques that I’ve found over the years working with Bash
20220330 Convert PDF to PNG
A lifesaving feature I discovered in OSX
20220308 Fresh Python Repo
Roll-your-own basic python repository, complete with Dockerfile
20220306 Python Datetimes
Recipes for common datetime operations in Python (using the standard lib)
20200419 CSV
A multi part series on reading & writing CSV data, with code examples from multiple languages.