CSS One-Liners to Improve (Almost) Every Project
Link: CSS One-Liners to Improve (Almost) Every Project: "A collection of simple one-line CSS solutions to add little improvements to any web page."
A quick glance at this taught me a few useful things from the inscrutable, confusing, and still irreplaceable powerful world of CSS.
SSH: Execute Remote Command or Script - Linux - ShellHacks
Link: SSH: Execute Remote Command or Script - Linux - ShellHacks: "How to execute remote command, multiple commands or shell (Bash) script over SSH (Secure Shell). Examples of SSH command in Linux terminal. How to use SSH."
Attached is a long article about a single, but useful reminder: you can use ssh to execute remote commands.
The 23 Best Coding Apps for Kids [2024 ]
Link: The 23 Best Coding Apps for Kids [2024 ]: "Coding is one of the most desirable skills for the future. It's now easier than ever to teach programming for kids with our list of the best coding apps for kids. These programming apps are"
While I am on the topic of coding apps for kids, here's another useful list I found.
The Writebook Manual
Link: The Writebook Manual: "A new way to publish a book to the web"
Attached is an elegant new product (at least its prerelease documentation) to “publish a book” to the web. I believe it will be a single license software product that you get to deploy to a server, including a cloud server. There are of course numerous ways of doing this but 37signals.com’s stuff is always excellent and beautiful.
Want to teach your kids to code? Here are three apps that can help. - Stack Overflow
Link: Want to teach your kids to code? Here are three apps that can help. - Stack Overflow: ""
I was looking for an idea for an educational game for a 7 year old. I came across this article (attached) which has some good links.
Flourish | Data Visualization & Storytelling
Link: Flourish | Data Visualization & Storytelling: "Beautiful, easy data visualization and storytelling"
Flourish is a pretty amazing tool. Can’t wait to try it myself. Just click on the links and try it out.
PySimpleGUI – An Intro to Laying Out Elements
Link: PySimpleGUI – An Intro to Laying Out Elements: "PySimpleGUI is a Python GUI that wraps other Python GUI toolkits (Tkinter, PySide, wxPython). By abstracting away the complexities of the other GUIs into a common API, you can quickly write code that can be rendered using any of those other toolkits just by changing the import at the top of your program."
Linked is a package for creating user interfaces with Python. This is just a reminder to myself that it exists. It looks useful.
Episodes.fm
Link: Episodes.fm: "Help listeners follow your show wherever they get their podcasts."
Attached is a really useful tool. Episodes.fm simply searches “all” podcasts, like a google for podcasts. It is really fast!
Ruby: a great language for shell scripts!
Link: Ruby: a great language for shell scripts!: "It’s more than rails!"
I agree. But you know what I really want? A bash code generator. I want to have a tool that lets me create vanilla bash scripts from a higher level language. I’ve come to the conclusion that vanilla bash is in the end the cross platform lingua franca for all kinds of sysadmin type chores and that there’s an art to writing complicated shell scripts. They work great with prompting, defaults, error handling and recovery. But they are a real pain to write, and that they turn out long and complicated and obscure. To paraphrase Philippe Kahn (there’s a really old callout) bash is a write-only language!
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My thoughts on Python in Excel
Link: My thoughts on Python in Excel: "An in-depth review of Microsoft's new Python in Excel functionality"
The attached article severely dings the “python in excel” feature that was announced to great fanfare about a year ago. For me the headline is that Python in Excel is NOT a replacement for VBA. Rather it’s better to think of it as a replacement for the excel formula language.