Saturday, March 14, 2026

Understanding conda channels

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 Conda channels are package source - locations where conda looks for software packages when you run conda install. Each channel can contain ...
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Quick tip: fix eID Viewer installation - a driver can't load on this device

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I recently had to use the Belgian eID software and couldn't get it to work on the Windows 11 - it always failed with "A driver ca...
Sunday, December 28, 2025

Quick tip: retrieving raw, unprocessed files stored in Github

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 The domain raw.githubusercontent.com serves raw, unprocessed files stored in Github repositories - think of it as GitHub's "direct...
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Quick tip: checking your Github Copilot settings

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 Open  https://github.com/settings/copilot/features References: Best practices for using GitHub Copilot Asking GitHub Copilot questions in y...
Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Interactive Pandas dataframes with ITables 2.0

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 ITables is a Python package available on Github (maintained by Marc Wouts) which changes how Pandas and Polars dataframes are rendered in P...

Enable and disable Data Wranger in VS Code for Pandas DataFrame and Series

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To disable default rendering of Pandas DataFrames in VS Code Jupyter Notebook with Data Wrangler (after installing the extension) - follow t...
Sunday, December 07, 2025

Datawrapper: enrich your stories with charts, maps and tables

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  Datawrapper  is designed to make professional-quality charts, maps and tables - even for those without coding or design skills. Also check...
Monday, October 13, 2025

Quick tip: Upgrade yfinance as part of OpenBB

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I have noticed that the yfinance Python package requires regular updating to keep it working. yfinance is also one of the core libraries ins...