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docker-remote-add

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Dataframe-To-Styled-Html

I wrote up a little on exporting DataFrames to markdown and html [here](/dataframe-to-markdown) But I've been playing with a web app for with lists and whi

Wish-List-With-Fastapi

Amazon has crossed the line with me just one too many times now so we are looking to drop them like every other Big Tech provider.... However, one key feature o

Git-Bisect

I try to commit a lot, and I also try to write useful tests appropriate for the scope of work I'm focusing on, but sometimes I drop the ball... Whether by

Pandas-String-Contains

TL;DR `pandas.Series.str.contains` accepts regular expressions and this is turned on by __default__! Use case We often need to filter pandas DataFrames based on

Unpack-Anywhere-With-Star

Unpacking iterables in python with `*` is a pretty handy trick for writing code that is just a tiny bit more pythonic than not. But [@Ned Batchelder](https://tw

Htop

`htop` is a common command line tool for seeing interactive output of your system resource utilization, running processes, etc. I've always been super conf

Pipx

`pipx` is a tool I've been using to solve a few problems of mine... pinning formatting tools like `black`, `flake8`, `isort`, etc. to the same version for

Fx-Json

[fx](https://github.com/antonmedv/fx) is an interactaive JSON viewer for the terminal. It's a simple tool built with Charmcli's Bubble Tea. Installati

Jellyfin-Media-Players

I use Jellyfin at home for serving up most of our media - movies and shows etc. My dream is to have a GPU capable of transcoding any and all of our media for sm

Typeddict

Type hinting has helped me write code almost as much, if not more, than unit testing. One thing I love is that with complete type hinting you get a lot more out

And-vs-&

I often struggle to remember the correct way to do `and` type comparisons when working in pandas. I remember learning long long ago that `and` and `&` are d

File-Length

I have a specific need for counting the number of lines in a file quickly. At work we use S3 for data storage during our Kedro pipeline development, and in the

Ipython-Prompt

I have a [post on starship](/starship) where I have some notes on how I use starship to make my zsh experience great with a sweet terminal prompt. Now... I spen

Vim-Spell-Check

__Did you know you can spell check in Vim?!__ What is this magic??? `set: spell spelllang=en_us` Custom words? Sometimes there's things that are words to y

Polybar-01

[polybar](https://github.com/polybar/polybar) is an awesome and super customizable status bar for your desktop environment. I use it with i3-gaps on Ubuntu for

Deques

I am working on a project to create a small system monitoring dashboard using the python `psutil` library. The repo is [here](https://github.com/nicpayne713/not

Plotly-And-Streamlit

Streamlit I use `streamlit` for any EDA I ever have to do at work. It's super easy to spin up a small dashboard to filter and view dataframes in, live, wit

Starship

If you spend time in the terminal then you'll want it to look somewhat pleasing to the eye. I used to ssh into servers with no customization, use `vi` to

self-hosted-media

Self-hosting 1 or several media servers is another common homelab use-case. Getting content for your media servers is up to you, but I'll show a few ways h

Skimpy

EDA I work with data a lot, but the nature of my job isn't to dive super deep into a small amount of datasets, I'm often jumping between several proje

Truenas-And-Wireguard

NAS One of the most common use cases for self-hosting anything is a file share system. I have been a fan of [TrueNAS](https://www.truenas.com/) for a while. I

Pyclean

I like to keep my workspace clean and one thing that I don't personally love looking at is the `__pycache__` directory that pops up after running some code

Psutil-01

[Mike Driscoll](https://twitter.com/driscollis) has been posting some awesome posts about `psutil` lately. I'm interested in making my own system monitorin

Mu

If you work with a template for several projects then you might sometimes need to do the same action across all repos. A good example of this is updating a pack

Wireguard

VPN Virtual Private Networks are a big deal, and this shouldn't be considered anything even close to a guide on using them. Here are just my notes and some

Abstract-Base-Class

ABCMeta I don't do a lot of OOP currently, but I have been on a few heavy OOP projects and this `ABCMeta` and `abstractmethod` from `abc` would've bee

Python-Builtin-Calendar

Being lazy I almost exclusively use Python for my job and have been eye-balls deep in it for almost 5 years but I really lack in-depth knowledge of builtins. I

Python-F-String-Align

I am personally trying to use `logger` instead of `print` in all of my code, however I learned from [@Python-Hub] that you can align printouts using `print` wi

Dataframe-Memory-Usage

I have often wanted to dive into memory usage for pandas DataFrames when it comes to cloud deployment. If I have a python process running on a server at home I

Adblock-Coverage

I run pi-hole at home for ad blocking and some internal DNS/DHCP handling. __pi hole posts on the way__ One thing I've never put too much thought in is ask

Tree

I wanted a quick way to generate an `index.html` for a directory of html files that grows by 1 or 2 files a week. I don't know any html (the files are expo

Webservers-And-Indexes

I host a lot of services in my homelab, but they're mostly dockerized applications so I have never had to care much about how content gets served up. Today

Traefik-01

Traefik If you don't know about [traefik](https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/) and you need a reverse-proxy then you might want to check it out. I used to use

Pandas-Select-Dtypes

On my team we often have to change data types of columns in a `pandas.DataFrame` for a variety of reasons. The main one is it tends to be an artifact of EDA whe

Tiddly-Wiki

[Tiddly Wiki](https://tiddlywiki.com/) is a great note taking utility for organizing non-linear notes. I used it to replace my OneNote workflow and my only comp

Vim-Auto-Space

I ran into an issue where I had some copy-pasta markdown tables in a docstring but the generator I used to make the table gave me tabs instead of spaces in odd

Git ammend to a commit

After carefully staging only lines related to a specific change and comitting I suddenly realized I missed one... darn, what do I do? Old me would have soft res

Stow

Stow is a great tool for managing dotfiles. My usage looks like cloning my dotfiles to my home directory, setting some environment variables via a script, then

Stow-Target

Check out [stow](/stow) for a brief introduction to `stow` What if I want to stow a package somewhere else? Boom, that's where `-t` comes in... Maybe I don

Ubuntu-Static-Ip

Sometimes I need to manually set a static IP of a Linux machine. I generally run the latest version of Ubuntu server in my VMs at home. In Ubuntu 20 I'm ab