When you begin using Python a lot, you realize you’re creating (or re-creating!) the same functions over and over again. I don’t know how many times, for example, I have re-Googled and re-typed the recipe from the magnificent and eccentric Python library BeautifulSoup to get text out of an HTML document, as when I want […]
Category: Tech
Syncing books, rising texts
Getting back to the text with ebooks There must be a name in business school for the curve of ebook reading v. real books, for the shape that flares up at the beginning for individual readers, drops way down, possibly to zero, and then gradually climbs back a bit to some lower, steady level, like […]
Website hacks and craft Web development
For the last several weeks, a few of the websites I maintain, including this one, have been getting absolutely buffeted by exploits and malware attacks. These attacks drop redirects in the headers and footers, throw up those fake blue “ATTENTION Microsoft” windows that take over your browser, and in general wreck the sites and make […]