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Its past 512 published articles but that’s how it goes. I don’t think the site is gaining in popularity but I’ve been adding more Python articles to the blog. Initially there was a lot of visits for OpenMaint but that has dropped off, and I’m getting more visits for AutoHotKey v1 to v2 in VS

I have been doing work on my bespoke Epherems data using either Python libraries or API’s to fetch the data, so I thought I’d explore getting web data via web scraping process. This is not something I’m keen on as I’ve had a lot of frustrations with the method in the past, but thought it

After earlier video on process creating Epheremis I wanted to do a sky map that would show the positions of the planets so that it was easily visualised, so I used the astroplan library and created a plot and after earlier only plotting one row of data from my Epheremis CSV I ended up plotting

I was doing one of my regular searches fro Free productivity software and came across this article The Best Free Software of 2022 which had the following subsection: Scribus Open Source Desktop Publishing So had a look at Scribus on YouTube and there were a few things it could do that when considered the Camino

I saw this in Upfront.eZine RSS feed. WikiIFC. This looks interesting. Idea model built elsewhere but then brought across for rest of life here. A great concept. Looking at how to use in the future- In stealth mode at moment as they are developing it still. Test 1 I used the sample simple model and

I saw a couple of D2D videos on how to and they were all a bit vague on actual setup of Authors page with Universal links for books on other sites There is mention that you can add links but no-one demonstrates how this is done. A bit irritating. From what I can understand when

Book sales are nonexistent so looking at marketing methods having an email list to send info to seems important. Book link : https://books2read.com/u/4NjV I saw this video about perma-Free book to gather emails from and thought I’d create a free book I’m writing stuff on AutoHotKey and thought doing a simple productivity script may be

I wanted to send some sensitive information to someone else, and wanted to protect the file. It was mainly text. Natively in Windows for Zip but NOT home edition I hadn’t really done this before so I looked into doing a password protect on a zip file in windows 10, but you can’t with the

Further to my recent article on this topic, I’ve been keenly awaiting the update of the power bill from my last one. Last weeks bill (I think from a week prior, consuming 66.94 kWh And this weeks , consuming 63.12 kWh Almost the same, although this weeks is slightly higher. A bit disappointing. I’d changed

I had my car nicked for the 3rd time, this time my electric scooter was in the back and the insurance company will be paying out part of the cost of it. So I can consider purchasing another scooter or an alternative. I was quite keen on the electric skateboards but they are quite expensive