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Back to writing Everyone should learn some programming Table of contents It's easier than you think Why Solve your own problems Improve critical thinking, problem solving, and what-if skills Increase your tech literacy How to start Javascript Python and t…

Back to writing [python] [tutorial] Running Python scripts Table of contents Level 0: python.exe myfile.py Level 1: python myfile.py Level 2: myfile.py Level 3: myfile.py on the PATH Level 4: myfile In this document, C:\python is the folder where you inst…

Back to writing The Beginner Bubble Table of contents Introduction Why - generous interpretation Why - critical interpretation Case studies Escape the bubble Introduction (§) The internet has made self-taught learning more accessible than ever before.

Back to writing [today_i_did_this] Batch png to pdf with Inkscape & PDFtk Today, I had 57 png images of QR codes, and needed to create a single pdf document where each page contained a single QR code with the file's name shown centered above the QR.

Back to writing [life] Complicated topics: Insurance Table of contents Introduction Health insurance & pre-existing conditions Introduction (§) When it comes to forming opinions, nobody can sit down and critically analyze every opinion and belief that they

Back to writing [git] [meta] [today_i_did_this] Lying git history Table of contents Introduction Backup Windows users, use git bash filter-branch to modify paths rebase -i to edit existing links rebase again to reset commit dates Introduction (§) When I s…

Back to writing [meta] [introspection] My motivations for writing Table of contents Introduction Creativity and visibility My other art and future ideas Influences Introduction (§) I have always hated writing.

Back to writing Cyborgs on HN This page collects comments which make unnecessary or tenuous analogies to computers, programming, dollar-sign $variables, sed's/replace/syntax/g, mathematics, AI/machine learning, and cryptography in discussions that aren't…

Back to writing [python] [tutorial] Argument Packing and Unpacking Table of contents Background Problem Solution Positional Packing Positional Unpacking Keyword Packing Keyword Unpacking Argument Forwarding Background (§) As you know, functions can accept…

Back to writing [life] [introspection] Friction Table of contents Introduction Homework All habits My habits Introduction (§) Over the past two years I have become aware of what I now feel is the most important element of habit formation: friction.

Back to writing [languagelearning] [life] Are children better at learning languages?

Back to writing [introspection] Counter-counter-thoughts Thought: I should write a post with my thoughts about __blank__.

Back to writing [python] [tutorial] Python's if __name__ == '__main__' Table of contents Understanding if name == main Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Why doesn't Python use a main function Real-life examples.

Back to writing [python] [tutorial] Generators Table of contents What are they Writing one Using one StopIteration Minor notes More examples Yielding individual items from batches Further reading What are they (§) Generators are a type of iterable that cr…

Back to writing [python] [tutorial] Continue Table of contents What is it Using it Continue is great for cleaning code with lots of conditions What is it (§) continue is a keyword used to control for and while loops.