Tag Archives: python

Detecting HTTP/2 Support

Posted on August 27, 2016 by Matthias

Thanks to Ubuntu 16.04 which includes a fairly recent Nginx version, I have now enabled HTTP/2 on my private server. Of course, I also wanted to verify whether my configuration change had any effect – after all, there is no visible change … Continue reading →

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Converting Images to ASCII Art

Posted on September 20, 2014 by Matthias

I’ve been playing with Docker a lot lately. Docker is a tool for creating lightweight virtual environments based on Linux containers. They are extremely useful for running services, but you can also use them for running one-off tasks that you … Continue reading →

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Remote-Controlling a Sonos Device Using Python

Posted on February 23, 2014 by Matthias

I couple of months ago I bought a Sonos Play:1, a pretty cool wireless speaker that comes with free controller apps for major platforms (Android, Windows etc.). To give the speaker access to my music collection, I hooked up a … Continue reading →

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A Template for Python Unix Utilities, Revisited

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Matthias

A long time ago, I posted a simple template for writing text-processing Unix utilities in Python. Since we’re not in 2009 anymore, I figured it’s time to port it to Python 3.

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Matplotlib: Plotting Bar Diagrams

Posted on December 30, 2012 by Matthias

A while ago we plotted time series data with Matplotlib. This worked nicely, but with the data at hand, a bar diagram would have looked much better. In this article I’ll give you a template for using bar diagrams with … Continue reading →

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Visualizing Package Dependencies

Posted on August 26, 2012 by Matthias

Managing module or package dependencies is an important design activity that helps to keep a software project maintainable. Visualizing these dependencies is a good way of getting a first impression on a project and for exposing design problems. In this … Continue reading →

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Simple Web Services With Bottle

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Matthias

Recently I rediscovered Bottle, a Python-based micro framework for web applications. Bottle gives you full control over your URLs, has a simple built-in templating engine and a lot of other commonly used stuff. It takes you five minutes to get … Continue reading →

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Scikit-learn: Feature Extraction From Text

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Matthias

I’ve been playing with scikit-learn recently, a machine learning package for Python. While there’s great documentation on many topics, feature extraction isn’t one of them. My use case was to turn article tags (like I use them on my blog) … Continue reading →

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