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Reflections between PyCons – PyCon US 2018 + PyCon Canada 2018
I had the opportunity to go to PyCon US this year again. And I’ve been meaning to put down my thoughts about it, but I have managed to distract myself in a million different ways. However I feel I really ought to say what I learned: PyCon US 2018 I enjoyed PyCon US this year,…
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Rookeries v0.9.0 out – New UI and Live Editing of Sites + Juggling JSON with jq Book Update
It has been quite a while since my last update. I apologize for the long silence. I wanted to focus on getting Rookeries up and running, to the degree that I can host a website. Namely I was hoping to update the Amber Penguin Software website and the Juggling JSON with jq book companion website…
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Using Blender for Cover Design
One of the fun parts of writing Juggling JSON with jq, is that I can experiment with various things. From the technical writing side, working with Sphinx has forced me to learn the ins-and-outs of that technology. Also very likely I will need to get into working with LaTeX for more of the advanced PDF…
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Juggling JSON with jq is Out Today
Apologies for the late post but it has been a busy day. As of today you can buy the early edition of Juggling JSON with jq on Gumroad. I am very excited since this is my first attempt at self publishing a book. Naturally the journey is still continuing as I work towards the final…
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Getting Started with Writing a Technical ebook
The early release of my ebook Juggling JSON with jq comes out tomorrow! However this post is more about the process of writing the book itself. Getting started on an technical ebook, (such as Juggling JSON with jq), requires a bit of upfront setup. On the ebook side, I decided to go the route of…
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Book Announcement: Unjumbling JSON with jq
jq is an amazing tool for querying and manipulating JSON in command-line, that I learned about from one of my good colleagues, Eric Olsen. And I feel that jq deserves a good book describing how to use this tool. Hence I am writing a book called Unjumbling JSON with jq on the topic. As mentioned…
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WordPress Password Resets via MySQL
I have not completed the switch away from WordPress completely, (as this site and the justCheckers site show). I might switch to using something like Django CMS or Wagtail. Unfortunately I have not had as much time as I’d like to, to work on Rookeries, my own Flask based CMS Still in the meantime, I…
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Notify Me when Done “X” in KDE
One of the few Java webapps I work on at work, has a very long startup time. Unfortunately since the server startup code is proprietary and owned by the vendor, there is not much I can do about that. However it is easy to forget to check if the server has started up, I decided…
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Approaching Inbox Zero in Gmail
Earlier this year (yes I meant to send this out much earlier) I went to a meetup hosted by my local PyLadies group. There Tracy Osborn of Wedding Lovely and Hello Web App fame gave an amazing talk about marketing for developers. I was truly inspired by the talk, and I feel it was very…
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Post PyCon, ebook and Freelancing Plans
PyCon US 2017 has come and gone, and the past few weeks have been busy with renovations and family related activities. So I have not been able to write as much as I’d like to. But now life is starting to gain some normality, and I look forward to more regular blogging. I really enjoyed…