MidWest Guy


A Blog Detailing Useful Stuff I've Learned

Pelican Migration

It's beena long while but I recently migrated my blog over to pelican. This allows me to write my pages in restructured text and in...

Hydrating Jinja with JSON as a Middle Step

Here I discussed a simple pattern for choosing different configurations with jinja this is a little more depth into that pattern. By...

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...

A Python Logging Pattern

When writing command line utilities in python for almost any purpose. I almost always want to control the level of verbosity in my...

Reading Google Sheets With Python

Reading Google Sheets With Python Google Sheets is an excellent spreadsheet tool. Sometimes good tools end up used more than they truly...


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