For quick un-docking of a laptop from a stationary desk setup — The Problem I have several hard drives connected to my laptop’s dock. When I dock my laptop, it connects to all 2 or 3 hard drives. I want to be able to eject them all at once so that my Mac doesn’t yell at me when I un-tether from my dock. The Fix I…

Avoid this handful of ergo pitfalls for a longer, healthier career — Avoiding long hours at the desk is the best way to prevent mouse-and-keyboard-related repetitive stress injury. If you’re like me, however, that’s just not realistic. I code furiously for a living, I’m writing a book, I’ve been diagnosed with bilateral tendinopathy, and I’ve had to take unplanned time away from…

Using Arduino, Python, and AWS Click to go straight to the GitHub repo with explicit DIY instructions The year is ~2018. I take a class at my local hackerspace, NYC Resistor. They give a little presentation about the history of IoT devices. They guide us through breadboarding our own little MTA train time arrival clocks, which behave like the ones on the…

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A Python/Pandas guy sets up shop on Apple Silicon — In April 2021 I was granted the privilege of unboxing a brand new 2020 M1 Apple MacBook Air. Tl;dr If you’re hoping to run Python libraries natively (i.e. without Rosetta 2 translation) on your new M1 MacBook, save yourself a lot of hassle: Use miniforge. …

Is it really that simple? I am seeing folks frustrated with lack of native support for data science libraries: https://www.betterdatascience.com/why-i-sold-m1-mac/ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65095614/macbook-m1-and-python-libraries

with brew Python 3.8.x, in a regular virtual environment — Intro I try to avoid (ana)conda when I can. I prefer PyEnv. Lately, I’ve found myself repeatedly fumbling trying to get Jupyter up and running and packages like pandas importing properly. Maybe this had to do with recent upgrades to my OS (to Catalina) or switching from bash to zsh as…

Serverless Infrastructure as Code via AWS CloudFormation — GitHub Repo / Source Code Here! 2020–09–10 Backstory: When I used to work at a Data Analytics firm in Times Square, I’d frequently enjoy lunch on the beautiful Bryant Park Lawn. I could check https://bryantpark.org/ …

Home Automation // My First Arduino Project — Tl;dr: I covered the perimeter of my apartment hallway in fancy LED strips. I installed motion sensors above all the doorways. I wrote a bunch of Arduino code. Now when you trip one of the motion sensors, the hallway lights up from that point outward, creating a “runway” effect. This…