I really enjoy making automated changes to large codebases. When sed won’t suffice and the task would take too much elbow grease to do by hand, my favorite tool (for python) is redbaron. In this post, I’ll walk through a simple sounding operation that would be tough without a tool like redbaron.

This post is primarily for people who have tried out linters like flake8 (not really a linter) or pylint to catch simple bugs and programmatically enforce coding standards but who aren’t perfectly satisfied with the types of issues discovered.

I wrote baddog.py to manage my time a little better. It wont let you download textbooks into your brain or even let you leave work early, but it does annoy you if you slack off online before finishing your to-do list and that might add up to a new skill in a year.

This is the first of a series of posts walking through how I built a robot valet that picks clothing combinations. This post picks safe outfits, but structures the knowledge base that eventually can pick interesting outfits.

This post will walk through creating an IPython magic command to run code like this from a Jupyter notebook.

%%prolog
sandwich(caprese).
sandwich(reuben).

run:-
  findall(X, sandwich(X), Y),
  write(Y), nl.

:- initialization run, halt.

A few days ago, I went in search of United States senators who had pulled a Grover Cleaveland and served multiple non-consecutive terms. I couldn’t think of any examples, but it’s happened a lot of times including recently with senator Dan Coats (R-IN) who was a senator from 1989 to 1999 and from 2011 to 2017.

I really hate typing dates. Home row is easy, but I typo numbers and symbols frequently. After publishing two posts manually, I decided to look for a script to help out and found jekyll-compose which has similar command under publish. Unfortunately, it didn’t timestamp the files and it didn’t intend to integrate with any SCM.