This is a site to showcase my experiments, projects, etc.
- My blog
- Where I write. Some of it formal, some of it casual, some of it personal. But all of it available via rss/atom, because I feel strongly about owning my own writing.
- Simplest Python Package
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The simplest Python package that I could make, if you want to make your own Python package
to upload to pypi, you can start with this.
- Correct Horse Battery Staple
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An implementation of http://xkcd.com/936/, for generating
strong passphrases.
- PyMato
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A command line Python Pomodoro timer. Super simple, but meets my (current) needs.
- Obscura
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A simple Python photo importer, to help with my photo processing workflow.
- Endpoint fun
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I wanted to show someone that the backend was irrelevant. Doesn't matter if it's written in
Python or Java (or anything else).
- A simple patch I made against pypyodbc
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Pypyodbc is a pure Python ODBC wrapper. I was using it professionally at one point and discovered
that it was returning only the first letter of the column names. After diving in and debugging it
I discovered that the byte string it was returning looked something like this:
b'n\00a\00m\00e\00'
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I realized that the string was coming back as a 64-bit string, but the way they were using it, it
was treating it as a 32-bit string, that is to say that it was looking for a null terminator, so
b'n\00'
was all it was processing.
I researched a couple of places and asked a question on Stack Overflow and figured out that this
was what it would take to fix the problem.
- dbrocker
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I didn't really like any of the SQL clients that I had used - especially for ODBC databases.
So I wrote a little app that let me use Vim to write my SQL, and then I could get the results
in a new split, so I could explore the results using Vim.