Month: March 2020

  • 7 cool APIs you didn’t know you needed

    But what does it mean? Many REST APIs give you a response that’s formatted as JSON (JavaScript Object Notation.) The data comes in pairs of keys and values that are colon-separated. Going back to the example API response above, for the key width, the value would be 353. https://www.twilio.com/blog/cool-apis

  • Google SEO 101: Updating Your Google My Business Listing

    Google‘s latest ‘Search for Beginners’ video on YouTube is an introduction on how to use Google My Business. This is actually the last video in the Search for Beginners series, though Google says it will continue to add new content to the Google Webmasters YouTube channel. https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-seo-101-updating-your-google-my-business-listing/357256/

  • Ashley’s top five projects for Raspberry Pi first-timers

    It is time. Time to go to that little stack of gifts from well-wishers who have badged you as “techie” or noted that you “play computer games”. Armed with this information, they decided you’d like to receive one of our small and perfectly formed Raspberry Pis. You were thrilled. https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/ashleys-top-five-projects-for-raspberry-pi-first-timers/

  • Google Explains How to Use the Search Console’s Index Coverage Report

    Google published a new Search Console training video all about how to use the index coverage report. Google’s Daniel Waisberg explains how to use Search Console to learn which pages have been crawled and indexed by Google, and how to deal with any problems found during that process. https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-explains-how-to-use-the-search-consoles-index-coverage-report/356676/

  • Create Virtual Environment using “virtualenv” and add it to Jupyter Notebook

    Like other programming language, Python has its own way of downloading, storing and resolving packages (or libraries). https://towardsdatascience.com/create-virtual-environment-using-virtualenv-and-add-it-to-jupyter-notebook-6e1bf4e03415

  • Getting Started with Sublime Text 3: 25 Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts

    Sublime Text 3 (ST3) is the latest version of one of the most commonly used plain text editors by web developers, coders, and programmers. It’s available for Mac, Windows, and Linux, and free to download and use. https://generalassemb.ly/blog/sublime-text-3-tips-tricks-shortcuts/

  • How to select a column of text in Sublime Text 3?

    they don’t work. Instead, one has to use alt+shift and the appropriate arrow key according to this technical support response. Note: If you have LXDE the file to modify is ~/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml instead. https://askubuntu.com/questions/1158410/how-to-select-a-column-of-text-in-sublime-text-3

  • How to Automate and Scale Your REST API Tests

    Tricentis sponsored this post. REST API (REpresentational State Transfer) is a powerful way to run tests. However, it’s not always enough. There are some pitfalls that cannot be spotted by REST API testing alone. That’s why end-to-end test automation is important. https://thenewstack.io/how-to-automate-and-scale-your-rest-api-tests/

  • Getting 1000 FPS Out Of The Raspberry Pi Camera

    The Raspberry Pi camera has become a defacto standard for many maker projects, making things like object recognition and remote streaming a breeze. However, the Sony IMX219 camera module used is capable of much more, and [Gaurav Singh] set out to unlock its capabilities. https://hackaday.com/2020/03/11/getting-1000-fps-out-of-the-raspberry-pi-camera/

  • Karate Club a Python library for graph representation learning

    Karate Club consists of state-of-the-art methods to do unsupervised learning on graph structured data. To put it simply it is a Swiss Army knife for small-scale graph mining research. First, it provides network embedding techniques at the node and graph level. https://hackernoon.com/karate-club-a-python-library-for-graph-representation-learning-05383yh9