The Ericsity WLED controller comes with WLED 0.13.3 preinstalled and only offers the ability to update to 0.13.4. This walks through setting up the controller for the first time and moving to 0.14.1 while maintaining the sound reactive features the controller advertises.

The Python strip, lstrip, and rstrip functions can have unexpected behavior. Even though this is documented, non-default values passed to these functions can lead to unexpected results and how Python 3.9 solved this with two new functions.

A short article on installing the Mobile Security Framework on Windows utilizing Docker and then using it to quickly analyze an APK.

A review of the Udemy course: Data Analysis with Polars

A review of the Udemy course: Learn Data Analytics with Polars (Python) in just 2 hours!

A review of the Udemy course: Learn Github Actions for CI/CD DevOps Pipelines

Python makes it easy to modify a list while you are iterating through it's elements. This will bite you. Read on to find out how and what can be done about it.

Copying a Python list (or any mutable object) isn't as simple as setting one equal to another. Let's discuss a better way to do this.

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?