Waylon Walker articles - 250 total
Who has an website idea to build #hacktoberfest
Markata is looking for early adopters to build something with markata and submit it to he project gallery.
Two new shell aliases for git
Recently I added two new bash/zsh aliases to make my git experience just a tad better. ...
IPython q to exit
So many terminal applications bind q to exit, even the python debugger, its muscle memory for me. ...
Copier Slugify | python templating | using cookiecutter
It's no secret that I love automation, and lately my templating framework of choice has been copier. ...
gh repo create
I love getting faster in my workflow, something I have recently added in is creating GitHub repos...
Textual has devtools
Textual has devtools in the upcoming css branch, and its pretty awesome! It's still...
The one pip config you need to have
Whenever you are installing python packages, you should always use a virtual environment. pip makes...
pyenv no module named '_sqlite3'
I've been trying to adopt pyenv for a few months, but have been completely blocked by this issue on...
git merge ours
Sometimes you have a pretty old branch you are trying to merge into and you are absolutely sure what...
What's your favorite piece of software that you built for yourself?
A post by Waylon Walker
Bash function to edit scripts faster
I am often editing my own scripts as I develop them. I want to make a better workflow for working...
List all git commits with GitPython
I am getting ready to do some timeseries analysis on a git repo with python, my first step is to...
Review Pull Requests with git worktrees
Sometimes you get a PR on a project, but cannot review it without wrecking your current working...
Using Git from Python
GitPython is a python api for your git repos, it can be quite handy when you need to work with git...
Python sys.excepthook
Sometimes you just want python to do something else when you hit an exception, maybe that's fire a...
A TTY Can Save Your Bacon
I recently was unable to boot into my home Linux Desktop, it got stuck at diskcheck fsck. I found...
pygame events are queued | Don't make this mistake
pygame events are stored in a queue, by default the most suggested way shown in all tutorials "pumps"...
Make it snow | Display Sprites in Pygame | Load and Blit
One of the most essential concepts of pygame to start making a game you will need to understand is...
Dunk is my new diff pager
Dunk is a beautiful git diff tool built on top of rich. Browsing through twitter the other day I...
Pygame Boilerplate Apr 2022
I'm poking a bit into gamedev. Partly to better understand, partly because it's stretching different...
Unzip minecraft mods to their directory from the command line
This morning I was trying to install a modpack on my minecraft server after getting a zip file, and...
Did my site build just go down?
My personal Site build went down last week, and I was unable to publish a new article. This is the...
Don't inherit from python BaseException, Here's why.
I ran into a PR this week where the author was inheriting what BaseException rather than exception. ...
How I make cache-keys from python objects
When I need a consistent key for a pythohn object I often reach for hashlib.md5 It works for me and...
How I setup a sqlite cache in python
When I need to cache some data between runs or share a cache accross multiple processes my go to...
Cache a python function with lru_cache
The easiest way to speed up any code is to run less code. A common technique to reduce the amount of...
Set User Agent on pandas read_csv
I keep a small cars.csv on my website for quickly trying out different pandas operations. It's very...
Get Webpage with python requests
Python's requests library is one of the gold standard apis, designed by Kenneth Reitz. It was...
Ease into htmx with htmx-get
I recently attended python web conf 2022 and after seeing some incredible presentations on it I am...
Style Lookatme Slides a bit more Personal
I recently gave a talk at python web conf 2022, and one of the things I did when I should have been...