Technology, Computers, Code
I have been using LibreOffice on and off for a few years now and generally I think it is a great alternative to the MS Office offering. It does the tasks that are required and… Read More »LibreOffice – Dialogue boxes showing blanks
Have you tried taking a screenshot in your Mac and are annoyed at having to wait for the floating thumbnail – in other words you wait for 5 seconds before the screenshot becomes a file?… Read More »MacOS – No Floating Thumbnail when taking a screenshot
I know there are a ton of posts out there covering this very topic. I am writing this post more for my out benefit, so that I have a reliable place to check the commands… Read More »Adding new conda environment kernel to Jupyter and nteract
Working with dates and times in programming can be a painful test at times. In Python, there are some excellent libraries that help with all the pain, and recently I became aware of Pendulum. It… Read More »Python – Pendulum
With the changes that Python 3 has brought to bear in terms of dealing with character encodings, I have written before some tips that I use on my day to day work. It is sometimes… Read More »File Encoding with the Command Line – Determining and Converting
“Why do I have to use backslashes (\) in Windows, but forward slashes (/) in everything else?” This is a question that I have been asked by a number of people over the years and… Read More »Backslashes v Forward Slashes – Windows, Linux and Mac
Python retains its top spot in the fifth annual IEEE Spectrum top programming language rankings, and also gains a designation as an “embedded language”. Data science language R remains the only domain-specific slot in the… Read More »IEEE Language Rankings 2018
New quantum method generates really random numbers
