Nicky Marino's Posts

How to Draft Blog Posts in Notion

Nov 20, 202011 min read

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...

How to Calculate a Levenshtein Distance

Oct 5, 202016 min read

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...

How to Write List Comprehensions with Python

Sep 30, 20204 min read

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...

Python's New Walrus Operator

Sep 28, 20206 min read

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...

Let's use LaTeX!

Sep 7, 20172 min read

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...