Things work, and there is no mistake about that!But, due to the universe constantly increasing in entropy, they do not work forever. They need to be supplied with your attention, knowledge and energy, so that they can continue to work.You know how it is, our bodies are pretty amazing – but at some point they [...]
One of the challenges when developing with Crystal is that it is not as forgiving about data types as, say, Python or Ruby.nil will keep you occupied.The following error message:cast from Nil to String failed, at /usr/share/crystal/src/json/any.cr:220:5:220can be solved by:# cast to string, THEN check if it is nil if !(shopify_data[spid]["billing_address"]["address2"].as_s? == nil) name = [...]
While running Chromium with chromium-browser --display=:0 https://www.picockpit.comwill allow you to start Chromium from an SSH connection (and it will output to the main display in the X Server), this will fail when you try to run it with subprocess.Popen in Python:"command": ["chromium-browser", "--display=:0", “https://picockpit.com”](this is part of the JSON format I have specified for PiControl [...]
Security is important for me while developing the picockpit-client. The following applies to Linux systems (but probably is applicable to all Unix like systems, including macOS)Python allows to run external commands using the subprocess module.import subprocessIn the upcoming version of PiCockpit, users will be able to create their own buttons (simply editing a JSON file [...]
A bait and switch site, which was supposed to show me some information about Python code.“Click allow if you are not a bot”. Abusing the Captcha to display notifications (probably spam advertising?) is definitely a clever idea. (From the technical and machination point of view)Why does the person who is behind this not direct their [...]
I used to subscribe to a newsletter service ( a service which would allow me to send e-Mails to my customers ). The guy behind this had a convincing sign up, and a compelling video explaining his product. The user interface was so-so (a stupid business mistake I’m going to come to in a future [...]