Category Archives: Howto

Fixing Virtualenvs after System Python Upgrade

Recently I’ve been testing out the 20.04 beta for Ubuntu. It’s real nice. But it recently upgraded python from python3.7 to python3.8 underneath me. It’s honestly not such a bad thing. Python 3.8 has a lot of improvements that will make working with the language quite excellent. I’m particularly looking forward to utilizing Assignment Expressions… Read More »

A Multiprocessing Module Tutorial for Python

Intro So for work I have built a tool that takes advantage of multithreaded processes on python. When researching for this topic I came across a number of guides that suggest the usage of the threading module. Now don’t get me wrong, the threading module is great, but do to a limitation with the Global… Read More »

How to Refresh a Non-Prod MySQL Database

How to Refresh a Non-Prod MySQL Database Hey guys just a quick tip I wanted to toss up there about refreshing Prod to Non-Prod Databases. Assuming that you’ve setup a system for pulling your Personal Information out of your production database (ideally through some sort of data masking script or via an update/insert trigger) you… Read More »

Windows, Putty & X

This is a howto on using Xserver applications via SSH when using Windows. There are two good ways to do this. First, use a tool like mobaXterm. Let’s face it mobaXterm is pretty awesome and is an excellent way to get a bunch of your favorite Unix tools over to windows. But what if you’re already… Read More »