2016/09/28

Progress bars in python

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tqdm is a nice way to add progress bars in the command line or in a jupyter notebook.

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from tqdm import tqdm
import time

for i in tqdm(range(100)):
    time.sleep(1)
2015/04/10

Sharing dotfiles

github git dotfiles
Today’s post is half a quick note, half public shaming. In other words, it is a reminder to be very careful with OAuth tokens and passwords. As part of moving to emacs, I starting using the incredibly useful gh.el. When you first use it, the extension saves either your password or an OAuth token in your .
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2014/12/09

Zotero

zotero webdav nginx apache
Zotero is an Open Source tool that lets you organise your bibliography, syncing it with the cloud. Unlike other alternatives such as Mendeley, Zotero can upload the attachments and data to a private cloud via WebDav. If you use nginx as your web server, know that even though it provides partial support for webdav, Zotero needs more than that.
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2014/10/09

Proxies with Apache and python

python apache proxy gunicorn uwsgi

This is a quick note on proxying a local python application (e.g. flask) to a subdirectory in Apache. This assumes that the file wsgi.py contains a WSGI application with the name application. Hence, wsgi:application.

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<Location /myapp/>
    ProxyPass http://127.0.0.1:8888/myapp/
    ProxyPassReverse http://127.0.0.1:8888/myapp/
    RequestHeader set SCRIPT_NAME "/myapp/"
</Location>
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2014/09/27

Publishing on PyPi

github python pypi
Developing a python module and publishing it on Github is cool, but most of the times you want others to download and use it easily. That is the role of PyPi, the python package repository. In this post I show you how to publish your package in less than 10 minutes.
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