How it started: How it's going:

I'm writing a new book, "#Pandas Workout" (for Manning Publications), to help improve your fluency with this amazing #Python package. So: What are your biggest pain points with Pandas? What don't you understand? The more feedback I get, the better the book can be.

An excellent article on my new favorite Python library called rich which allows you to take your #Python CLI apps to new heights.

An alternative to saving your secret information to the environment variable is to save it to .env file. The easiest way to load the environment variables from .env file is to use python-dotenv library. Find how to use python-dotenv in the code below. bit.ly/2Zziahk

If you work with markdown tables in Visual Studio Code, this extension from Fernando 👨🏻‍💻 provides the ability to sort rows and move columns left and right. Very handy. marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName…

Twitter friends, please consider upvoting this VS Code feature request so Fernando 👨🏻‍💻 can align the columns in sorting of markdown tables in marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName…. We need 20 upvotes for the feature to make the VS Code backlog. github.com/microsoft/vsco…

WOOT WOOT WOOT! I am sooooo excited to see that Kayla Cinnamon ☕ and the Terminal team have landed a goal that we've wanted to deliver since Terminal was still a dream. Another step forward in Windows becoming the default Terminal on Windows :) Great work!

Happy birthday Daniel, I appreciate you😀

.@endlesstrax you're not the only one who learned today that Visual Studio Code can sort #Python import statements. Thanks for sharing this useful tip!

Looking to scrape JSON API responses? It's as quick and simple as copy/pasting this script in Google Sheets (for up to 5M cells). thisdavej.com/fetching-filte… Thank you very much Dave Johnson (thisDaveJ.com) for sharing your code. For longer lists, your best bet is to go with Python.

What have I done for you lately? Well, after several months of back-breaking work, the results of what has internally been called "documentation-ng," launches today. Welcome to the new #RaspberryPi documentation site. raspberrypi.org/blog/bring-on-…

Taking Manjaro Linux for a spin. It feels well designed. For people who have used this distro, do you prefer using pamac or pacman to manage packages?

I'm all about Python 3, but that's some impressive commitment by Red Hat to patch Python 2 for all of the legacy Python 2 code that has yet to be converted.

Installed @Fedora Linux on my home laptop 💻 that previously ran Windows. It's now a dual boot system. I'm running this for 30 days to see if it can become my daily driver. Have you taken the Linux plunge? Any words of wisdom?

Getting my new @Fedora system set up with some time-saving shortcuts such as: alias gno='gnome-open' I did not want to use "go" since I will be installing golang. What is your favorite #bash alias for your Linux system?

I have been familiar with the dmesg command in Linux to view kernel log messages, but today I learned I can do: $ dmesg -H which provides a pager option like less and continues to colorize the output. (-H = human readable output) #linuxtips

PEP 723 + uv = Single-file Python scripts with embedded dependencies! 🐍 Streamlined distribution and execution without requirements.txt. Check out my latest post here: thisdavej.com/share-python-s… #python #pep723 #uv

Share Python Scripts Like a Pro thisdavej.com/share-python-s…

Built a simple web app for converting text from Word or text editors into HTML bullet point lists (<ul>). It's a very focused use case. Perfect when you want HTML bullet points without using full-on Markdown tools. thisdavej.com/html-bullet-po… #office #html #WebDesign #JavaScript

Just published my next article on building Python command-line apps with uv: thisdavej.com/packaging-pyth… #Python #pythonlearning #uv