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There are two hard problems to solve in a Python project: installing packages, and installing packages in other projects. This post was originally published on my website. Check it out for more awesome content! Over the years, the challenges I’ve co...
Installing Ruby or Python on M1 Macs is a nightmare. I’ve lost so many hours fighting compilers and Rosetta to these issues, so I’m documenting my installation steps to spare you1 a lot of headache. This post was originally published on my website. C...
Replit is a free, collaborative, in-browser IDE for creating new projects without setting up any environments on your computer. With Replit, you don’t need to “deploy” your projects to any service; they’ll be instantly available to you as soon as you...
Maintaining a streamlined process to draft, edit, and publish technical articles can be tricky. For example, I write across multiple topics such as Python tutorials, bash commands, and Ruby optimizations. I also publish to three different locations—m...
Imagine you're writing a mobile app, and your user searches for the word kitten. Unfortunately, the only search terms you expected them to enter were from the following: smitten mitten kitty fitting written How do we figure out which word the user me...
One of the most common blocks you will write in Python scripts is a for loop. With for loops, you can repeat the same set of instructions in a block over and over. Python's for loops are really foreach loops, where you repeat the instructions for eve...
Beautiful is better than ugly. The Zen of Python Python introduced a brand new way to assign values to variables in version 3.8.0. The new syntax is :=, and it's called a "walrus operator" because it looks like a pair of eyes and a set of tusks. T...
LaTeX is a beautiful documentation system. It's similar to Markdown, but has many more features and is commonly used for academic papers and other publications that require a lot of equations. In this quick how to, we cover how to install LaTeX and u...
