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As most fans of Zombieland will tell you, it’s been a long 10 year roller coaster of a journey to the sequel. After the first movie was well received, there was so much news, it was hard to determine what was real and not. For every seemingly positive news, there was also an immediate, inevitable setback. And eventually, after years of back…
A while ago, I came across an interesting project where someone analysed their iMessages history. While I couldn’t track down that specific project, here’s another example of someone from Reddit analyzing 4 years of iMessage history with his long distance girlfriend. Having been inspired by this and a few similar projects, I decided to take a crack at it. BAETA The BAE…
Earlier this year, after being with Apple for over 10 years, I decided to switch back over to Windows, primarily because laptops this side of the fence seemed to offer better configurations for comparable pricing. And having used Windows 10 for over a couple of years, it seemed like a decent enough bet. The one thing I didn’t anticipate, however, was the…
The Reddit Is Beautiful subreddit has a monthly visualization challenge where you are given a dataset and challenged to visualize it – the June 2019 challenge was the World Happiness Rankings. Approach I used 2 tools to approach this challenge Python – a simple way to combine the 3 sheets that came part of the dataset Tableau – to visualize the newly…
What I have learnt over many attempts of writing and maintaining a personal blog, especially after having gone from shared hosting to cloud self-managed hosting, is that maintaining the underlying infrastructure is hard work. Having gone from paying a pretty penny on Bluehost, I decided to switch to AWS with disastrous results – I found addressing database leaks that would take down…