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Python and Python Scripting
This post is being created as an example of an area of concern while I am teaching myself… Am I learning the right stuff? I am beginning to look for a new position, and some employers are looking for “Python Scripting”. It was not a phrase I was familiar with and looked it up, but…
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Twilio, a lovely platform
I discovered Twilio a couple years ago when beginning to build my app, Alertyoself. Twilio is a cloud communication platform that handles the difficulty for you. (This is not a paid advertisement, I just really like their service) Recently, I played with their new verification service, and I admit it is pretty nice. To be…
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Big Step in FreeCodeCamp!
I have been slacking. I can justify the heck out of it, but that does not change the fact that there is no GOOD reason for being lazy the last 30 days or so. But now that I am getting back in the driver’s seat, a big step has finally been completed on FreeCodeCamp. I…
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Backend Check In
Since my last post, I have kept at it, building the backend to my app (and rebuilding the app itself). A lot of time has been taken up by figuring out what to use. I believe I have settled on Alamofire for the network connection to the “API” (quotes are used here because it is not…
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Evolution of My View of Programming
An interesting thing happened yesterday… The backstory: I was instructed to change some titles on webpages for the day job, and they needed to be under 60 characters. There are PLENTY of places online where I could have entered text to get a character count, but I thought to myself, “I know how to do this in…
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Finally, a post about wordpress…
This post is work related, and as you can tell by the title, relates to wordpress. On the work blog, we had social media sharing buttons. One of the bosses used an SEO program to scan the site, and the social media buttons returned less than favorable data. (I am purposefully not mentioning the site,…
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No Replacement for the Real Thing
If you have read this blog before, then you know I have done plenty of tutorials. With this practice, comes plenty of repetition. And while in the middle of the tutorial, I understand what I am doing. But once it is completed, I am left with an overall understanding (which is not a bad thing…
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More with Udemy and Python
Another tutorial has fallen before me!!! This time, I have taken down REST APIs with Flask and Python. This one was more enjoyable than the previous course. I felt it was more on point for the description, but we also went down a possibly “unneeded” rabbit hole. (These opinions may be coming from my inexperience as…
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Manual Labors
Yesterday I added an aspect of learning that has gone unused for far too long… I tried something new away from the computer! Crazy, right?!?!? I installed a garbage disposal. And part of me actually enjoyed it. I am not a homeowner so I would not have to deal with these kinds of issues. But…
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La Petit Errors
Let me say, there is probably no such thing as a tiny error. The devil is in the details. And apparently the bane of my existence… Recently, two tiny, major errors caused me to waste time on items I should not have. The first error involves modifying a tutorial. For project details, you can see it here.…