I recently decided to look at my past purchases, and see if I could leverage that data to predict some of my personal spending trends. To help create a forecast, I settled on Prophet, which is a…
On a recent Selenium project, I was trying to develop tests for a page with a long, dynamic form. This form has several types, with some shared fields across each type, with the number of possible…
A common choice for manipulating and processing large text files on UNIX systems is awk. I was using awk in March of last year and thought it would be helpful to have a list of built-in variables in…
Linux comes equipped with a handy utility aptly called JOIN which performs join operations on text files. Performing an inner join is as simple as running join file1.txt file2.txt Producing an outer…
In January of last year I was working on a project that used SQLAlchemy to manage database interactions. Since many of the terms were new to me back then, I thought it would be handy to define a few…
This website is used to run on a webserver called Harp. While reading through the documentation page on using Markdown to write pages, I came across an interesting few lines near the bottom of the…
Reproduction poses certain problems for sessile organisms, since they cannot actively search for a mate. Many types of corals and sea urchins therefore employ a slightly different reproductive…
Native to South America, Red Imported Fire Ants make their homes underground. These nests are subject to flooding during rainy periods. On its own, a single fire ant Solenopsis invicta will struggle…
Your sense of smell depends on olfactory receptors. These receptors bind to oderant molecules and identify them by structure or shape. But what about molecules that are similar in shape? Those should…
Although it was never finished and remains unoccupied, the tomb of Meryra located in Amarna is notable since it casts a light on an important time in Egyptian history; that of the “Heretic Pharaoh…
I figured I'd sit down and quickly add a navigation header to my site just to have it in place, so that I could add links to it later. After reading over the Bootstrap documentation, I thought it…