After the release of macOS 10.15.2 two days agao I have upgraded my mac at work to latest version today. Immediately, after running pip to install some packages I was greeted with an abort. I checked the crash reporter to find the offender:
Application Specific Information: /usr/lib/libcrypto.dylib abort() called Invalid dylib load. Clients should not load the unversioned libcrypto dylib as it does not have a stable ABI. After poking around for a bit I figured out it was because of the asn1crypto library.
When dealing with geospatial data it is sometimes useful to have a grid at hand that represents the given data. One way to create a grid like this is to use Geohashes. GeoHashes are a hierarchical spatial data structure which subdivides space into buckets of grid shape, which is one of the many applications of what is known as a Z-order curve, and generally space-filling curves. A Geohash is an encoded character string that is computed from geographic coordinates.
After three great days at the PyCon US 2017 in Portland, OR Hendrik and I decided to participate in the development sprints succeeding the conferece. The code sprints are an essential part of PyCon, and a chance to meet some of the maintainers and contributors of various open source projects. For us it was the first time attending a code sprint.
The day before the sprint there was a session helping people to set up Git, Python (including virtual environments) and getting familiar with version control.
Google Ads, the globally renowned advertising platform, empowers numerous businesses to strategically place ads, reach prospective customers, and grow their presence. The kaleidoscope of data that Google Ads provides forms the bedrock of insightful business decisions, higher return on investment, and the optimization of AdWords campaigns.
While Google Ads features a user-friendly interface for data access and management, some tasks often benefit from a programmatic approach. In response to this need, Google provides the AdWords API.
There are a lot of cases when we want to track time when an entity was created or updated. Here is a simple recipe to make some or all of your SQLAlchemy entities auto-timestamping. To achieve this, we will provide a mixin class.
from datetime import datetime from sqlalchemy import Column, DateTime, event class TimeStampMixin(object): """ Timestamping mixin """ created_at = Column(DateTime, default=datetime.utcnow) created_at._creation_order = 9998 updated_at = Column(DateTime, default=datetime.utcnow) updated_at.
Everyday at work around noon the question of where to get lunch comes up. Normally, we choose between different restataurants in the vicinity of the office. One exception is the HU Mensa (university cafeteria). Despite being really cheap the food quality there varies a lot and it really depends on the daily menu whether a visit is worthwhile.
To tackle this issue I decided to spent another IT Open Space putting together a little script that will help us in the future.
At Project-A we are using Codebase as a project management tool together with its version control. Just as with any other tools you can create tickets and organize them in sprints. Our usual (very simplified) workflow includes:
Sprint planning for tickets Priotizing tickets Developer working on tickets Product managers verifying if the tickets were implemented as intended Unfortunately, sometimes your backlog keeps growing and tickets are no longer valid, outdated or, in the worst case, just forgotten.
The first step of my plan, building a Raspberry Pi based photovoltaic monitoring solution, is finished. I created a python package that works with the Kostal Piko 5.5 inverter (and theoretically should work with other Kostal inverters as well) and offers a clean interface for accessing the data:
import pikopy #create a new piko instance p = Piko('host', 'username', 'password') #get current power print p.get_current_power() #get voltage from string 1 print p.
In order to visually enhance my temperature logging I added some Javascript that computes sunrise and sunset for the 24h, 28h, weekly and monthly chart. Then I use this information to plot vertical bands on the chart indicating the effects of the sun on temperatures (and humidities):
To add the bands to your Highchart just get the sunrise and sunset value for a particular day and push it on the xAxis.
A couple of years ago I was on a trip to Budapest with a couple of friends. While roaming the streets we were passing by a casino and my friend insisted that there was a perfect strategy that would only lead to winning at roulette tables. Curious as I was I had him explain his theory. The system basically works as follows:
First, you place a coin on red. If red wins, take your winning and start over.
