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Pen and Paper AI

I'm going to show you how to build an artificial intelligence that can 'live' on the back of a napkin.

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Build and Publish Your Python Project

Step by step, copy and paste.

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Vim Regular Expressions 101

Rescued from the ruins of GeoCities.

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Clickable Image Links on Social Media

Create custom site-preview "cards" for social-media sites

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Deploy Your First Baby Bot on Heroku

So, you’re a programmer (or not) who has built (or downloaded) their first bot. What's now?

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Version Control in One Cup of Coffee

Have you ever “ran out of undos” trying to get back to a working version of your code? This article is for you.

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50+ Beginner Programming Project Ideas

Coding is only 50% coding. There’s documentation, collaboration, and version control. Believe it or not, if you’ve been coding for more than a few weeks, you’re ready to publish. You...

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AI-Generated Palettes

I created an Artificial Intelligence to produce these palettes because I like the symmetry of using analytical tools to beautify analytical tools.

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The Curious Thing about Quicksort

Whether the rat study was actual evidence or just the exact metaphor I needed, hearing about it was revelatory.

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SVG (with CSS) in Python

It is straightforward and practical to create SVG graphics with Python.

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Python Struct Options

Or: Do we still need namedtuple? (spoiler: yes)

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library: docx2python

Extract docx headers, footers, text, footnotes, endnotes, properties, and images to a Python object. full documentation The code is an expansion/contraction of python-docx2txt (Copyright (c) 2015 A…

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