Tag: python
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How to Print (to a real printer!) with Javascript
Short and sweet today – I never knew (well, never knew to look up) how to print a webpage with Javascript. Since you can do just about everything else with the window it’s not surprising, just never a use case I needed. My “discovery” came while at work and trying to debug a component that…
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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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Advent of Code (and Cyber!)
It’s December! Since we don’t seem to get snow in the DC area anymore the next best thing is daily coding puzzles and challenges. My two favorite are the Advent of Code and Advent of Cyber. Both contain some interesting challenges and are a fun way to try out new things ahead of starting the…
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Time-Based Debouncing with Plotly Dash
It’s been a while since I’ve written a post here! Ended up shifting jobs a couple months ago and have been pretty focused on a learning a new type of role. Part of the new gig is automating the collection and display of a variety of data and I’ve had the opportunity to start using…
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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…