utcnow() and utcfromtimestamp() don't know about timezones and that causes problems. Let's talk about those, how to fix the problem and their recent deprecation in Python 3.12

In Ruby you can use either and or &&. You can use or or ||. What's is the difference and what's the catch?

Comparing two numerical variables in Python can have surprising results if you aren't aware of some common gotchas. This post covers a couple of the common ones.

Append 100,000 strings together using join or concat - Which is faster?

A quick walk through of why mutable defaults on optional arguments is bad in Python.

Setting up Obsidian to sync notes across devices utilizing git and a GitLab backend

GitLab 16.3 deprecated and disabled the bundled Grafana, but didn't provide complete instructions for how to disable it. Fortunately, it's easy to do. I've documented the few steps needed.

CoderByte falls to ChatGPT just like the more well known interview assessment platforms. Here's my run down, and how I used ChatGPT to solve an easy, medium and hard problem in less than 5 minutes total.

Nearly five years ago I installed NextCloud. This article talks about the challenges I faced updating to a new version of PHP for a modern version of NextCloud.

HackerRank is a common tool companies use in interviews. This post continues the series on how ChatGPT can solve these interview problems.