Recently in building out a dashboard to show the number of github issues for a given search, I wanted to show a circle containing a count. When we think about responsiveness in web pages we mostly think about making things that respond to a horizonal constraint. However, for a dashboard,…
This will probably be of use to about 3 people, and I'm one of them. If you feel your eyes glazing over, don't fret and look at this kitten picture instead: The problem I wanted to add some content to both our docs (built via sphinx docs and written in…
New version: I've updated the script to use D-bus with spotify for Linux version 0.4.8 see Spotify Screensaver Toggle with D-bus for further information. In a previous post, Lock Screen and Pause Spotify I provided a rudimentary script to pause spotify when your screensaver kicks in. Now with…
I'm re-writing a piece of code to print into columns within a terminal and I wanted to join the nth items of each list together. Zip allows you to do just that >>> my_list=[[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9,10]] >>>…
Tim's Loopy Control Structures is an in-depth post detailing the ins and outs of programming control structures. Makes good follow up reading as to my recent getElementsByClassName script. Tim was one of my former colleagues when I worked at Rentokil and has recently re-designed his blog Nefarious Designs. As a…
I have had Regex Buddy for both windows and Linux for about 4/5 months now and I really don't know what I would do without it. Regex buddy makes it easy to build up regular expressions with the explanation for each step of the way. There is a section…