Category: tools
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Adding Django-REST-Framework to Django (way after the fact)
One of my first projects in my current role was to optimize a process that involved taking a hardware design and making predictions about it. We had some old Excel sheets that would keep track of old analyses but these didn’t really enforce any structure and lots of work had to be redone each time…
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Getting the S&P 500 From Wikipedia with Python
Most of my strategies in the market are pretty basic – I don’t really like technical indicators but will use them to rank possible positions here and there. One of the best ways to reduce risk is to only look at the “good ones” so that even bad calls aren’t as bad as they could…
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How to Find What to Watch
On and off over the last couple months I’ve been putting together a collection of fun/goofy tools that my girlfriend has asked about. As a test of my new fondness of the FARM stack, I’ve rebuilt the project in React, using FastAPI and MongoDB for the backend. It’s located at rachelscoolshit.com because I miss the…
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Embracing the FARM Stack
After stumbling on a FastAPI article I decided to give it a go and have been having fun using it for a backend. I know I said I loved Go and would be doing all my personal things in Go moving forward, but running with Pydantic and the auto documentation has added some of what…
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Unlocking Protected VBA Projects in Excel
Note – this was originally published on 09 SEPT 2019 – I’ve slightly updated it to my current Office environment but I’ve added some notes below on how to future-proof it. Amazing how often you’ll need to unlock a VBA project years after you decide you’ll never need to do it again…. VBA is very…
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