Two of the older projects I have run for some time now are Needs More Lens Flare, a toy web app for automatically adding lens flare to photos, and Drone Stable, a more robust web application for automatically stabilizing aerial (or any kind of) video.
I am afraid I don't …
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is the next big thing in space-based observatories. The project will enable never-been-done-before research, revealing astronomy and physics discoveries about dark matter, our galaxy, and more.
It has been in the news for delays in its launch schedule. If you ever need to know how …
Sphinx is a really useful tool, but one shortcoming is its markdown support. Specifically, it uses the recommonmark specification, which does not support tables. I wrote a Sphinx extension to render tables authored in markdown.
It can be installed via pip install sphinx-markdown-tables.
If you don't already have Sphinx configured …
Maybe you're heard of Bootstrap, but don't know exactly what it is, or how to use it? The landing page description is less than helpful:
Build responsive, mobile-first projects on the web with the world's most popular front-end component library. Bootstrap is an open source toolkit for developing with HTML …
On Wednesday night, the Milwaukee Python group met up to discuss Django. The meeting was hosted by Digital Measures in Milwaukee's third ward. We had a great turnout and lots of good questions.
Andrew Glassman and I both spoke on Django, its features, and how to use it. The notes …
You accidentally committed your secret key to version control, or the server got compromised, or you lost control of the secret key for some reason. Using an online service to generate one is a bad idea - nobody else should ever have your secret key. How do you generate a new …
Update: I'm changing the name of Virtual Cox to Fast Ergs. It now lives at fastergs.com. I'm using the name Virtual Cox for another project, coming spring 2017. You can subscribe for updates and to be notified when we launch here.
I'm pleased to announce the launch of a …
Lens flare is an effect created by light reflecting internally in the lens of a camera. Whether it's good or bad is up to how it's used. Some filmmakers are notorious for this (looking at you, J.J. Abrams).
Inspired by needsmorejpeg, I created an app to take user-uploaded photos …
Obfuscated urls stink. Being able to hover over a link and see where it goes is a tremendous feature of any modern browser. Use unshorten on your command line to see where they go. The project is at github. Put unshorten.py somewhere on your path and make it executable …