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After installing python you should install virtualenv which will allow you to have different python environments with different dependencies without package version conflicts. Once activated the virtual environment is available globally until deactivated. 1. Create New Virtual Environment Consider creating a directory to store all your different python environments or associate the python virtual…
Rating: 5/5 Biography A Normal Family - The Surprising Truth About My Crazy Childhood (And How I Discovered 35 New Siblings) by Chrysta Bilton This book is the author’s story of growing up in America in a small and unconventional family setting. You cannot help but get drawn into a story that reads like pure fiction due entirely to the author’s uncoventional mother and her chosen…
Rating: 5/5 Health Vitamin C: The Real Story by Steve Hickey and Andrew Saul This is the story of the simple compound vitamin C (or more correctly L-Ascorbic Acid) has been used by a small band of pioneering doctors and scientists to cure the supposedly incurable for more than half a century. The authors of this book are two scientists with first hand experience in the use of and the benefits of…
Rating: 4/5 Cycling The Art of Cycling by James Hibbard I picked this book up expecting it to be an account of how the author entered professional cycling and their progress in their professional career. It is all of this and more because this book is essentially two stories; one about cycling and the other about the history of philosophy and how this directly relates to the author’s own…
When Tesla released the Model 3, they removed the instrument cluster that is traditionally behind the steering wheel. The information normally presented there is instead provided on the large landscape display in the center of the dashboard I believe that they did this for two main reasons; cost cutting and also because they expected that these cars would be capable of self driving at some point…
In my previous post I asserted that Tesla vehicles are at their core computers on wheels. The electronic and mechanical systems are designed in a modular fashion and communicate with each other over multiple CANBUS networks with high speed two way information flows. If you want to access vehicle data and more specifically driving information, then you need to tap into the appropriate bus and…
In a previous post Hosting a blog using Hugo and Github , I explained how to use Hugo to create a blogging website and host it on Github. In this post we will look at how to configure Github to serve your website using your own domain. Configure Your Pages Repository I explained how to organise your Hugo blog/website into two repos; one for the entire website project and the other for the /public…
Rating: 5/5 Health How Not To Die by Michael Greger MD After first reading this book and being really impressed by it nearly three years ago, I decided to revisit it again after a recent conversation with a doctor about cholesterol and blood pressure. His view is that these are often hereditory diseases that worsen with age and for which drugs offer the only real solution.
Rating: 4/5 Sci-Fi Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Although I don’t read a lot of science fiction, this book intrigued me because it had universally great reviews and is also written by the same author that created The Martian which turned into a movie of the same name starring Matt Damon. The movie is well worth seeing if you haven’t.
Rating: 5/5 Business Power Play Elon Musk, Tesla and the Bet of the Century by Tim Higgins Although Elon Musk is the central character in this book, this isn’t a book just about Elon Musk as much as it is the story of Tesla Motors itself. The book primarily tells the story of the original founders of Tesla and their ambition to create an electric sports car unlike anything seen before. And…
Sysadmins (and lesser mortals) use cron to schedule regular jobs on servers for all sorts of tasks including backups. Since it can be a pain to log into each server to ensure that these scheduled jobs are running correctly days, weeks or even months after the jobs were first created, you can opt to receive notifications of the success or failure of these jobs by email. In order to send emails,…
They say that fashion trends come and go in cycles before returning again at some point in the future. You could argue that the same is also true for websites and the technology used to build them. In the 1990’s, websites were created using offline applications that generated all the site’s HTML pages which were then uploaded to a webserver to be served to users’ browsers. Later…
Everyone needs email… itʼs what enables us to receive communications from e-commerce sites and other internet services. So when faced with the challenge of creating a personal email address, where do most people turn? Invariably, they choose GMail. On the surface GMail presents a very attractive solution for email. Itʼs pretty feature rich, it works reliably (except in China!) and itʼs…
This post is about working with multiple Github repos from different Github accounts on the same local machine. The easiest way to authenticate yourself when you pull from or push changes to Github is using SSH. To do so, you need to generate an SSH keypair on your local machine and add the public part of the keypair to your Github account as a new SSH key. Once this is done, you will be able to…
When you provision a new server or VPS, there are a few steps you should take to make access to the server both secure and less painful. 1. Update the server Update the server using the latest packages. On Ubuntu execute the following commands (as root): apt-get update 2. Don’t login as root The first time you login into your (new) server, you should use the root account for updating the…
Rating: 5/5 History Our Man In New York The British Plot to Bring America into the Second World War by Henry Hemming It’s easy to fall into the trap of assuming that manipulating the public on a mass scale to deliver a desired outcome are recent developments exemplified by the UK Brexit vote or Donald Trump’s win of the US Presidency in 2016; and that these results were only possible…
Rating: 4/5 Politics Diary Of An MP’s Wife Inside and Outside of Power by Sasha Swire I had reasonably low expectations for this book despite the generally positive reviews elsewhere because most political memoirs and exposés tend to be a bit dry and dull. Not so with this book which details Hugo Swire’s entry into and career in politics in which he was supported by his wife, the…
Rating: 5/5 Health Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor While it’s pretty obvious that we need oxygen to survive, who knew that the way we breathe can have such an enormous positive or negative impact on our health. Nestor is a science writer who came to the topic of breathing after researching free diving; the practice of holding breath for minutes at a time and diving tens…
Rating: 5/5 Finance The Art of Execution by Lee Freeman-Shor As a casual investor that wants to take a long term view in terms of stock and share investments, I assumed that books like this one would be more suited to serious money managers and day traders rather than someone like me. However the information in this book would be hugely beneficial to anyone that wants to invest in stocks and…
I have worked in Software and Technology for many years having graduated from Imperial College University, London with a BSc (Eng) Honours degree in Computer Science. In that time I have followed the usual career path for a software engineer holding various roles in public bodies, startups (co-founding one) and larger enterprises. Starting as a developer, I progressed to a senior then principal…