Work * I learned that in Unix, you can use & to run a command in the background. A lightweight alternative to screen/tmux. Then you can use fg to bring that process to the foreground. Life * I learned that one of the first investors in Wizards of The Coast was a

Work I learned how to use pyinstaller to convert a python application to a binary file. As easy as: pyinstaller entrypoint.py -F To produce a self-contained binary file on the dist subfolder from where you called the command. I learned about mpl3d, a library that convert Pandas matplotlib base

This is a continuation of a previous post that aims to be a very subjective guide for those who, like me not long ago, have a strong interest in programming but do not know how to start. On part 1 you got some advice about what being a programmer, you

Work * I learned that Pandas can interact with sqlAlchemy and many other python modules creating an amazing data ecosystem Image from tonight's PyData NYC meetup. Courtesy of Jeff Rebacks * I learned of Project Jupyter, a version of iPython Notebook that works with Juliam Python and R Life * I learned of

Work I learned that in Docker, if you want to see the status of the last container you built, instead of doing docker ps -a (which lists all the containers, and thus can force you to scroll up to see the last one), you can do docker ps -l, whcih

Less than 18 months ago, the only Coding knowledge I had was using VBA (excel macros). Over the past year, I have succesfully built projects using a myriad of languages like Python, Go, Ruby, R, javascript, learned what are databases and used different ones like postgresql, sqlite or mongodb for

Work I learned that Google Analytics Reporting api has a limit in the number of characters that you can send as filters. Found it the hard way, when doing a query, and filtering for a set of domains (excluding test sites, demo sites, etc),  the api returned an error. 400

Work I learned that in Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq can run cron-like jobs with the help of Sidetiq. It's as easy as writing a Worker and adding this line after the definition: Class ScheduledWorker: include Sidekiq::Worker include Sidetiq::Schedulable recurrent { hourly } ... end And you can substitute hourly by minutely,

Work I learned that in Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq can run cron-like jobs with the help of Sidetiq. It's as easy as writing a Worker and adding this line after the definition: Class ScheduledWorker: include Sidekiq::Worker include Sidetiq::Schedulable recurrent { hourly } ... end And you can substitute hourly by minutely,

As i was going through the fun process of setting up a Digital Ocean instance for my blog, I realized that i had a couple other projects I would like to spin of in the same instance. All of those projects are web applications, and thus, require an opened port