Once upon a clay tablet in ancient Babylon, before the days of TikTok financial gurus and stock market memes, lived a man named Arkad. He wasn’t born into riches. Nope. This guy didn’t have a rich uncle or a crypto wallet. But what he did have was a rock-solid money philosophy and, possibly, the world’s … Read more
You may have seen it by now — an unassuming little button lurking under a tweet, labeled “Explain this post.” Maybe you tapped it. Maybe you didn’t. Maybe you stared at it like it was a decoy set by the Algorithm Police. But here’s the good news: it’s not a trap. It’s Grok, X’s resident AI sidekick, … Read more
I tried going without jokes for two weeks and started hallucinating that my dishwasher was laughing at me. I swear the soap pod smirked. Friends, I’m not saying I have a problem, but my phone autocorrected “good morning” to “why did the chicken cross the road?” So here I am. Again. Because laughter is a … Read more
This morning I asked ChatGPT a simple question:“What Chrome extension is this ID tied to?” Harmless, right?Just a lil’ extension sleuthing to start the day. No biggie. And ChatGPT, with the absolute confidence of a golden retriever guarding a stick, barks out: “Ah yes! That’s SmashJacker, the notorious malware that hijacks browsers, locks down your … Read more
Let’s say you’re building an app. It’s going to be the next big thing. Bigger than TikTok but for spreadsheets. You need to store data, but raw SQL makes you feel like you’re defusing a bomb with chopsticks. Enter SQLAlchemy, the lovechild of Python and databases that says, “Hey, what if we made querying data … Read more
You know you’re a Python dev when “serialization” sounds less like data engineering and more like a Netflix original. Today, let’s talk about three majestic beasts of the Python ecosystem that all do vaguely similar things, have wildly different personalities, and probably wouldn’t survive two hours on a group project together: Marshmallow, Attrs, and Django … Read more
Let’s talk about the sales funnel. Or as I like to call it: the slippery slide of seduction that takes your customers from “Who the heck are you?” to “Take my money!” — with a few detours through existential doubt, discount codes, and a healthy amount of stalking (the legal marketing kind, not the restraining-order kind). You … Read more
So, you’ve decided to host multiple websites on GoDaddy’s Web Hosting Plus Expand plan, and each site insists on a different PHP version. It’s like hosting a dinner party where one guest demands vegan sushi, another craves a well-done steak, and someone else just wants a bowl of cereal. Fear not! With a pinch of … Read more
Okay, so yes — there was a post on April 1st claiming to be the monthly review, but if you read it and thought, “Really? That’s it?” — you weren’t wrong. That was our annual April Fools’ special. This? This right here is the real March review. Scout’s honor. Medium Blog Highlights March was no slouch. Over on Medium: … Read more
Ah, spaCy. The name alone sounds like a chill resort for code, where data gets pampered with syntactic massages and token facials. But spaCy is not a spa. It’s an industrial-strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) library in Python. And it means business. Fast, efficient, and clearly doing squats on the weekends, spaCy is the muscle-bound … Read more