As we head off for a couple of weeks away from home, catsitting for a dear friend, I thought I would get a jump on my usual tardiness and try to get my laptop in order and fully functional. As this would also be the first time using this laptop to do a bit of coding — at least that’s the plan — I also had to install all that stuff. Luckily, I had made a note of Chris Amico’s guide which, along with the bits I have learned about environments, made the whole thing a lot less stressful than it might have been.
Finally found time to summarise the first quarter of data that Overland collects for me.
The biggest surprise is the amount of time spent on the bicycle as opposed to in the car. Some of that difference was caused by the absence of the car for about three weeks, the result of some thieves helpin...
Professor Von Explaino kindly steered me towards ChatGPT to solve the problem I was having building a Python gui. His solution worked, for that part of the problem, and made me realise that I ought to ensure that I ask ChatGPT as well as simple search. Having then got my gui up on screen, happy to receive files, for the next series of errors I asked ChatGPT myself.
Horror!
Good tutorials are worth their weight in gold, and some of the best, for me, come from Programming Historian, even though I am not an actual historian. A new one promised to show me how to create GUIs in Python, which I definitely could use. Alas, I fell at the first. The tutorial clearly warns that PyQt5 would not easily be installed on my machine, which has an M1 chip. That proved correct. Nothing daunted, I tried to install PyQt6 instead, and that worked a treat, except that …
A few days ago, I shared some tribulations related to looking at the most popular requests to my websites, starting with all requests to Eat This Podcast in 2022.
Of the top 50 resources requested, only 14 were actual episodes or articles. The rest were technical, behind the scenes things, like various flavours of feed and some of the (locked) doors that give access to the engine. I know why people keep rattling those doorknobs, but I wish they wouldn’t.
I had hoped to see whether any meaning could be gleaned from them, but that will have to wait, because at the start I was staring at a mystery.
