Today I gave a service consultant access to one of my AWS servers. I have a few files on the server that I was reluctant to share with the service consultant because these files contain sensitive personal data. Python is my default way to solve these types of problems. Naturally, I wondered how to encrypt … Read more
You can add multiple key-value pairs to a Python dictionary by using the update() method and passing a dictionary as an argument. For example, dict1.update(dict2) will insert all key-value pairs of dict2 into dict1. You can add a single key:value pair to a Python dictionary by using the square bracket approach dict[key] = value. In … Read more
Ethereum’s Total Value Locked (TVL) is $28,000,000,000 USD and Ethereum’s market cap is $193,000,000,000 USD. Based on my estimations below, there are at most 269,000 monthly active Solidity developers. Therefore, the Ethereum TVL per Solidity developer is more than $104,000, and the Ethereum market cap per Solidity developer is more than $717,000. So for all … Read more
If you’re short on time, here’s my quick take on how to convert a Python tuple to a Python list? The most Pythonic way to convert a tuple to a list in Python is to call the built-in list() function and pass the tuple as a function argument to the function. The function list() takes … Read more
Project Description So I’ve been toying with the idea of creating a shopping list application for a while now. I wanted to create it in such a way that everybody in the family could contribute. We order all our food once a week, and then I go and collect it. With the app, everybody would … Read more
As I write this, Bitcoin is in a deep bear market. That’s the perfect time to learn about the tech and start building! After listening to a podcast from Lyn Alden today, I wondered if it is possible to programmatically create a Bitcoin wallet, i.e., a public/private key pair. This can be extremely useful in … Read more
I have created many apps throughout my career. Some apps, such as the Finxter Python learning app, have reached millions of users over the years. While I’m not a professional web designer (by education), I was taught the hard way (by trial and error) that there are some crucial and timeless skills you need to … Read more
In this quick tutorial, I’ll show you how I integrated ChatGPT intelligence into an app I’m currently working on. It’s really simple, so let’s get started! Step 1: Create a Paid Account with OpenAI I’m not affiliated with OpenAI in any way. However, to use it, you need to create a (paid) account to create … Read more
In this blog series, powerful Python libraries are leveraged to help uncover some hidden statistical truths in basketball. The first step in any data-driven approach is to identify and collect the data needed. Luckily for us, Basketball-Reference.com hosts pages of basketball data that can be easily scraped. The processes of this walkthrough can be easily … Read more
In this tutorial, I will walk you through a machine-learning project on Loan Eligibility Prediction with Python. Specifically, I will show you how to create and deploy machine learning web applications using Streamlit. Streamlit makes it easy for data scientists with little or no knowledge of web development to develop and deploy machine learning apps … Read more
It’s no surprise that many of us are looking for ways to increase our productivity. After all, an increase in productivity can mean an increase in our income and a better quality of life. But how can we achieve such a lofty goal of boosting your productivity? Enter ChatGPT, the revolutionary new artificial intelligence technology … Read more
A good friend and his wife recently founded an AI startup in the lifestyle niche that uses machine learning to discover specific real-world patterns from videos. For their business system, they need a pipeline that takes a video file, converts it to audio, and transcribes the audio to standard text that is then used for … Read more