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Today I watched Kenneth Reitz's python for humans video. His statement that “API is all that matters” resonated with me because I sometimes struggle with that.
Then he mentioned that you should write the README first, before writing any code. This is something that I do sometimes, but not always thoroughly. So I decided to use this as an experiment to refactor my beammech module.
The deploy script is a program for managing configuration files. This script grew out of my need for a multi-functional installer for configuration files. I tend to keep those files in a separate git repository rather than changing my $HOME into a git repository.
This Python script is a small helper to open files from the command line. It was inspired by a OS X utility of the same name.
After updating the site generator that powers this website, I had to make some adjustments.
Sometimes I need to update my FreeBSD operating system. I prefer to do that from the source code, so that my customizations in (/etc/src.conf) remain.
At the writing of this article, I'm tracking the 10-STABLE branch. To start this, I removed the contents of /usr/src and ...
More and more, IPython has become my tool of choice as the ultimate calculator and to try out concepts and code for use in my programs.
While I generally use the terminal-based interactive shell, notebooks offer more capabilities for integrating text, formulas and graphics.
With Python 2.7 effectively mostly ...
The standard recipe for saline solution is 9 grams of salt per liter of water.
Since most people don't have an accurate scale, we need to convert the nine grams to a volume. For that we need the bulk density of table salt. For fine table salt, the listed ...
Installing software on FreeBSD is made easier by the ports system; a collection of Makefiles and patches that contains instructions on how to build programs and libraries. E.g. building and installing the mpv media player is done in the following way:
# cd /usr/ports/multimedia/mpv # make install clean ...
As an engineer, I often do diverse calculations that I want to save in my logbooks which I write in LaTeX. Up to now I've either formatted those by hand or used the listings package to include calculations made in IPython.
From the release of version 3.2, the py-stl software has been renamed to stltools. The reason I made this change mostly has to do with how FreeBSD handles packages. Programs that require an interpreter are prefixed with its name and version. So py-stl would become py27-py-stl, which would be ...