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  Beauty of Imagination : Python
26  september     13h59
Abusing yahi -a log based statistic tool à la awstats- to plot histograms date series from CSV
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31  august     20h55
The true cost and code of parsing the integrality of (french speaking) bluesky ATPROTO in python
   I was reading this news on ycombinator and was flabbergastered by the affirmation of people regarding the cost and complexity of parsing the...
20  november     09h03
The advantages of HTML as a data model over basic declarative ORM approach
   Very often, backend devs don’t want to write code. For this, we use one trick : derive HTML widget for presentation, database access, REST endpoints...
06  november     08h50
The crudest CRUD of them all : the smallest CRUD possible in 150 lines of python
   Right now, I am on a never ending quest that requires me to think of building a full fledge MVC controller : an anti-jira tracker that would favours...
29  october     13h24
Is chatgpt good at generating code for tuning a guitar ?
   I was on a french speaking IRC chan bragging a tad about how I was doing a guitar tuner and paying attention to not fall into the pit of confusing...
22  october     09h49
Tune your guitar with python
   Today’s exercice is just about turning a very nice example of the python soundevice module into something that works for me to help me tune my bass....
21  october     08h51
Hello world part II : actually recoding print
   In part I we explored the pre-requisite in order to code print : having a grasp on the framebuffer. Here, we are gonna deep inside one of the most...
20  october     10h01
Revisiting hello world : coding print from scratch part I
   The hello world example is about standing on the shoulders of the giant and learn how to use function as tools. Most coders will use print during...
17  october     11h48
3D ploter in python-tk with matplotlib.
   Wishing to prove my assertion wrong on python-tk that piping python directly into tk tcl interpreter is simple I tried to contradict myself by making...
07  october     14h04
Writing an interactive tcl tk interpreter proxy to wish in python
   Maybe, you want to experiment small stuffs in wish (the tcl tk) interpreter because of a post claiming that direct python tcl tk is simpler in some...
06  october     11h29
Bidirectionnal python tk by talking to tk interpreter back and forth
   Last time I exposed an old way learned in physical labs to do C or python tk like in the old days: by summoning a tcl tk interpreter and piping...
05  october     07h48
Simpler than PySimpleGUI and python tkinter: talking directly to tcl tk
   Well, the PySimpleGUI rug pulling of its licence reminded me how much dependencies are not a good thing. Even though FreeSimpleGUI is a good approach...
24  september     08h54
PySimpleGUI : surviving the rug pull of licence part I
   I liked pySimpleGUI, because as a coder that likes tkinter (the Tk Tcl bindings) and as a former tcl tk coder I enoyed the syntaxic sugar that was...
24  march     18h32
Modern Computer Science is obscurantism disguised as science
   Recently I decided to get back to the basics and question my use of classes frameworks. I tried to find a definition of the word framework but...
20  march     01h28
I still find with the examples used for teaching OOP counterproductive
   After the stupid example with the taxonomy of the species car employees that makes you do a lot of inheritance one of the valid use case for OOP is...
23  september     22h29
Querying complex unknown database with python
   In my job, I sometimes have to deal with web applications that are pointing to half a dozen databases with an overall of more than 160 tables. Not to...
20  september     18h49
Using python to visualize randomness
   Heard of randomness? What is random: something that given a serie of chronological events (happening after one another) whatever long the time serie...
19  april     17h55
So I wrote a Proof of Concept language to address the problem of safe eval
   I told fellow coders: hey I know a solution to the safe eval problem: it is right under my eyes . I think I can code it in less than 24 hours from...
16  april     01h10
Eval is even more really dangerous than you think
   Preamble, I know about this excellent article: http: nedbatchelder.com blog 201206 eval really is dangerous.html I have a bigger objection than ned...
04  october     18h16
An opinionated versioning system based on mapping versions string to numbers in weird base
   While we have a convention in python for numbering: http: legacy.python.org dev peps pep-0440 We can mostly say that version numbering thanks...
02  october     16h31
Perfect unusable code: or how to modelize code and distributivity
   So let’s speak of what and un deterministic code really are. I am gonna prove that you can achieve nearly chaotic series of states with deterministic...
13  december     22h23
Auto documenting and validating named arguments
   In real life there are companies were keywords ( kw) are prohibited, and others where positional arguments can stack up as high as seven....
04  december     20h28
Cross dressing on the internet and gender issues
   So the actual buzz is gender issues http: www.kathrineswitzer.com written about.shtml I dare say it is a non problem. But before let me tell you my...
26  october     00h22
Using signal as wires?
   Learning that signals were software interrupts in a book on Unix, I thought, hey, let’s try to play with signals in python since it is in stdlib The...
21  october     18h59
My problem with Computer Science pseudo code
   I remembered opening books of Computer Science to learn algorithm when I began. And my first reaction was: it seems unnecessarily complicated...