Do you know someone who hails from the strange land of Django development? Where there are code based settings files, is customary to use a ORM for all database calls, and classes reign supreme. It’s a dangerous place that sits perilously close to the Javalands. Most...
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How NOT to call Robinhood’s secret API with Python
This article is meant to go over the basics of calling an API via Python, as well as a critique of a top google result I recently ran across. We will start by using Robinhood’s undocumented API, as I saw this article that had python code...
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Raspberry Pi’s are wonderful little computers, just sometimes they lack the umph to get stuff done. That may change with the new Raspberry Pi 4, but what to do with all those old ones? Or how about that pile of old webcams? Well this article will...
Continue reading...On demand gaming server for pennies a month!
The only downside with most dedicated gaming servers is the cost. If you need a 24/7 server or someone to manage it for you, you can’t avoid it. However, if you are self sufficient for setting up the gaming software, and only play certain games intermittently,...
Continue reading...Top 10ish Python standard library modules
When interviewing Python programming candidates, my wife always likes to ask the simple question, “can you name ten Python standard library modules?” This is harder than most think, as many people will completely blank out and others will be dead wrong. “Requests?” one poor soul answered....
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