Work

Could not focus much on programming today. So decided on doing things with Python programs. Nikola Upgrade I use Nikola to generate both my websites. It is an extremely easy to use, no fuss static site generator, which is easy on my server’s resources. Version 8.1.2 was released a few hours ago and I hopped on and installed it. I follow a slightly unconventional upgrade path, because I was terrified of breaking my server in the early days, when I was still learning about how to go about installing things on servers. ...

I started playing with a way to control Git via Python. Kushal had asked me to write a program, that would show me the local git branches. So here it is! I call it Git the Branch. (painfully, punny, I know :)) And now I realise why he asked me to do this. The program itself is trivial. Here’s the code on my code repo, Gitlab, and Github. It just consists of me using GitPython to access the current folder via a GitPython Repo object. And then querying it for its branches. ...

The Itch Aiming to write a tool using this which will show all the git branches in the current directory and the last commit date on those branches (and only the local branches :)) What I did today I had to carry my phone in to the service centre, so I did not quite have as much focussed time as yesterday, with all the coordinating and carrying, but I learned a few new things ...

Was a really good day to ease back into Python today. I got my VS Code up and running. I got a personal [Gitea instance][crjw] up, to host my code, from where I will syndicate it to Github and Gitlab. And finally I got a projects page up, to slowly fill up with projects. I also managed to improve an old program I wrote for myself, but I’ll write about that in the next post. All in all, a day well spent. A journey well begun. ...

This post was sent to my newsletter on October 16th, 2020. You really ought to subscribe :) I was wondering about what kind of technical posts, I could write, since I am still learning programming and I did not want to bother you folk, with this is how I learnt to do lists in Python and this is what dictionaries do :) I then realised that it’s been slightly more than a year, I have been touch typing using the Dvorak layout. ...

Worked only an hour today. Trying to change the little lookup program, I made the other day, into something a little better. Not quite a good day. Calling it quits early.