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Prerequisites We need to have at least Docker installed. Creating the Blog First we’re creating a new directory for our blog and generate the blog structure using William Jackon’s docker-pelican: mkdir my-site cd my-site docker container run -it --rm --entrypoint pelican-quickstart -v ${PWD}:/pelican-site ghcr.io/williamjacksn/pelican Welcome to pelican-quickstart v4.9.1. This script will help you create a new Pelican-based website. Please answer the following questions so this script can generate the files 1 Title: My First Review needed by Pelican. > Where do you want to create your new web site? [.] > What will be the title of this web site? Micha's Tech Notes > Who will be the author of this web site? Micha Kops > What will be the default language of this web site? [C] > Do you want to specify a URL prefix? e.g., https://example.com (Y/n) Y > What is your URL prefix? (see above example; no trailing slash) https > Do you want to enable article pagination? (Y/n) n > What is your time zone? [Europe/Rome] > Do you want to generate a tasks.py/Makefile to automate generation and publishing? (Y/n) > Do you want to upload your website using FTP? (y/N) > Do you want to upload your website using SSH? (y/N) > Do you want to upload your website using Dropbox? (y/N) > Do you want to upload your website using S3? (y/N) > Do you want to upload your website using Rackspace Cloud Files? (y/N) > Do you want to upload your website using GitHub Pages? (y/N) Done. Your new project is available at /pelican-site ...

Jupyter Installation with Conda For other installation methods like brew, pip, etc. .. see jupyter website: installation I’m using miniconda here and install jupyter and also some mandatory libraries like numpy and pandas: conda install jupyter conda install numpy conda install pandas we can now start jupyter by running jupyter lab or jupyter notebook. Let’s parse some movie information from the IMDB, they have put some interesting datasets online here We’re reading in the movie.csv file and do some basic analysis like this: ...

Managing my projects’ source code I am using Git also as Mercurial. Therefore I often encounter the situation where I am creating a special branch to implement a specific user story or feature request. Now when working on such a story branch I often enter the issue-key or a short title as a prefix for each commit message. Doing this by manually is a waste of time and error-prone and luckily for us, each of both DVCS offers us an easy API to add custom hooks to the different life-cycle events. ...

Virtual Environments Create and activate a venv python -m venv /path/to/new-env (1) source /path/to/new-env/bin/activate (2) 1 Creates a new virtual environment 2 Activate the new virtual environment Deactivate venv deactivate Save used dependencies to a file pip freeze > dependencies.txt Install dependencies from file pip install -r dependencies.txt Storing and fetching Credentials from the System Keyring I am using jaraco/keyring here: pip install keyring import keyring keyring.set_password("system", "db.sample.password", "xoxo") print(keyring.get_password("system", "db.sample.password")) ...