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This is a follow up on my previous blog, How to Submit a Package to PyPI. As the blog gained a lot of requests and feedback on Reddit, I reviewed all the comments and made improvements to our previous package. Refactoring While new features are added to a software or
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Writing Python packages and deploying them to PyPI is one way of sharing libraries to the open-source community. For beginners, submitting a package to PyPI is not an easy task. This blog guides you through the complete process including testing and continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD). Register first!
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For quite a while now, I have been developing DocCron. There are plenty of scheduling libraries for Python and that includes the standard library, sched. However, the only issue with these libraries is that creating schedules is not that close to what Linux guys (including me) are using, the cron
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To make sure that our services are running optimally, we prevent abuse by rate limiting. For example, if we have an API server, we limit the number of API calls per time period. One approach is to use Redis because we can easily scale our services. We often create multiple
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February 12, 2022: - Updated the example and the repository to use stream_with_context() which stops the generator after a client browser has been disconnected. - Add headers to make it work behind a proxy server like nginx - Deployed a working demo at https://chart.ron.sh/ 💡If you cannot see
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I recently bought a new domain from Namecheap and I wanted to deploy a website using Flask on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. However, I do not want to create another Elastic Beanstalk application since there's not much content in my new website and I do not want to pay
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FreeSearch is now owned by BeeStripe LLC A friend of mine sent me a link about Free Web Search wherein you can do web searches on Facebook Messenger using free data. I was amazed by the creator's idea. He even started a crowdfunding for it. However, as a
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Update: May 5, 2019 - install amortization library from PyPI. See related topic here. pip install amortization Are you a prospective borrower? Have you applied for a loan? Do you know how amortizations are calculated? In this blog, I will discuss how to calculate amortizations and how to generate amortization schedules.
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Update: Feb 13, 2022: - New demo deployed at https://mvrs.ron.sh/ - Updated example code (with refactors): https://github.com/roniemartinez/motor-vehicle-registration-schedule-ph As a car owner in the Philippines, I need to renew my car's registration every year. All car owners are required by
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A common question on Stack Overflow is "How to edit a file in-place?" and the most common answer is "No, you can't!" and people tend to advise using temporary files to store the modified data and then write back the contents to the
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Have you ever encountered short URLs from bit.ly and t.co? These services are called URL Shorteners. Website URLs are often long that it is not easy to send them thru text messages or tweets because of the length limitation. Here is an easy way to build a URL