After reading the experiences of a number of other folk also having issues with Microsoft Bing (and thereby DuckDuckGo) indexing -- particularly this comment on Hacker News, I've come to the conclusion it was my fault after all.
At some point last year, I redirected my older (mostly unused) doma...
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On my current project, we have a tonne of Spark logic which needs to aggregate and (generally) sum data which is grouped by different keys, in order to then apply business rules at the record level (i.e. if the total of amount x, when...
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This is a weird one. DDG has been my search engine of choice for a number of years, so I also used it as the search engine for this site (since it's statically generated). At some point over the last 3 (I think) months it stopped working - returning no results for any search criteria. Given Bing...
Continue reading...For those who are interested, Python for Kids 2 has been completely rewritten as LaTeX (using No Starch's style); partially in text files, and partially in Overleaf:
Overleaf was great, particularly for the review process, but I have to say working in LaTeX is an order of magnitude bette...
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I've been using feedly since Google decided RSS wasn't a thing any more, and have been pretty happy with it. It wasn't as good as Google Reader, but good enough. The ads are gradually becoming more invasive though, and there's less of the minimalist feel it had when I first started using it, s...
Continue reading...The 2nd edition of Python for Kids is coming October 2022. What's new? Not an exhaustive list, but it has been completely refreshed for the latest version of Python, as well as being updated for the latest versions of Windows and Ubuntu. New Raspberry Pi instructions are there for those who want t...
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Janick writes:
Continue reading...My son got "Python for Kids" (the dutch translation) from Sinterklaas last december (Sinterklaas is the local Santa in Belgium and the Netherlands). He really enjoyed it! The weeks following he read and coded almost every day until he finished the book. Some days after, I ment...
The Vietnamese translation of Python for Kids is now available from the publisher Sputnik Edu. I think that's something in the region of 12 languages in total now (including English)! 👍
Continue reading...I've built a Docker image for running single-node Spark and Hadoop (one worker) on a Raspberry Pi, since I couldn't find anything to experiment with. Certainly not suitable for anything other than experimentation, but the image can be found on Docker hub here:
hub.docker.com/repository/docker/...
Continue reading...I wanted to boot my Raspberry Pi 4 from an external SSD connected via a USB-to-SATA cable. According to Jeff Geerling's video, it's pretty straightforward using the latest version of the firmware - but try as I might I couldn't get it to start. Tried re-imaging the SSD; also used the SD card copi...
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