I'm a designer turned web developer with a disability: Multiple Sclerosis. Technology helped save my career and my livelihood, so I want to pass along the knowledge.
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We can use the colon (:) to get the first n (number) of items in a list, the last n items, and some combo of those in between. This is called "slicing" in python. Say we have a list of four items: >>> my_list = ['a&
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There are two ways to do this: 1) Add a hard-coded admin link in the template or 2) Build a link in the views.py and put it in a context variable so you can use it in multiple apps or models. Bonus: we'll make a modification for
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You can use ANSI Escape Codes to color or highlight text printed to the command line without installing extra packages. Just like a mark-up language, we can use a colored escape code followed by the text and ending with a reset escape code to tell the terminal to change the
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There's no doubt: images hit your site's load time the hardest 9 times out of 10. If you're struggling with performance due to slow load times, audit your images and I would recommend converting them into .webp images. Here's how you can
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Although I've played very different roles for different companies over the years (designer, social media manager, developer), I've always been a part of the Marketing department. That means I have identified a lot of overlap in quality assurance with my work. We, marketers, love content that
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There is a post here on NDT that can help you get the file extension separated from the filename. One problem: how do we preserve the full filename when there are multiple periods? Let's back up. There are wise Internet people out there who have made the argument
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Sometimes good advice is circulated widely. Many times bad advice catches on and we assume it is good advice because it's been repeated so often. Let's address a few of those in our business communication: 1. I Have to Use "Professional Words" to Sound
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I'm really tired of opening up a script to run some monthly reports, only to find that Chrome has updated again, which means my chromedriver breaks my script. Let's automate this! 💡This article and script has been updated on May 22, 2024 to fix the breaking
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It's time to start using python to improve your work. This first project will be simple enough for you to pick up if you have no experience with python, and it should be useful if you already know python. We're combining the productivity strategy of a
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Whether I'm trying to add random letters to a filename or URL to make sure it's unique, this little snippet is nice and fast. >>> import string, random >>> random.choices(string.ascii_letters, k=5) ['e', 'I'
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There's only so much time in a day, so much energy you have to expend at work, so much influence you will have on coworkers. We often hear Corporate say idiotic things like, "Do more with less," and we can be tempted to think along the
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Perhaps the automation strategy that is easiest to get started with is templates. This is not about making things look "pretty" in your docs or slideshows. Templates are pre-created assets that speed up your production and reduce the workload a project or task requires. Whenever you notice that