Motivation Inspired by automate the boring stuff and motivated by my last automation attempts, I wanted to see if there is more stuff which can be automated. Creating YouTube thumbnails is one of the time consuming tasks I tried to simplify. Installation Pillow is a fork of PIL the Python Imaging Library. We can install…
Motivation When dealing with databases you will need the ability to store certain dates and/or timestamps in your tables. Let’s find out how you can do that in an SQLite database. SQL table creation SQLite has the data type TIMESTAMP for storing date-times CREATE TABLE social_media ( social_media_id INTEGER, insertion_date TIMESTAMP, yt_subs INTEGER fb_pg INTEGER…
Today we did an interview with Christoph Menzel Head of Mobile & Web Development at inovex. Hi Christoph! Thanks for taking the time. Can you tell us about yourself? How did you become a software engineer? That is a very good question 🙂 I started as an apprentice IT specialist for system integration. So I…
Motivation If you had less menial manual work you could sit at the beach and relax more often 🙂 So regarding my pain points I figured out that publishing articles to my blog takes a huge amount of time too. In order to publish an article I need to: Log in into the WordPress backend…
Motivation Inspired by the session at BarCamp Regensburg I started to think about pain points in my workflow. I figured out that the conversion of my photos was too cumbersome. Before When writing articles I download the images from my phone via AirDrop to my Mac. Apple stores images in the HEIC format on my…
Motivation Sometimes you need to translate text from one language to another. I for example often write articles in German but want to have them in English for this blog. For this use case you can use google’s translation function in the browser. But wouldn’t it be sweet to automate this task and spare some…
This is part 5 of the 5 part series 15 Steps for successful Bootstrapping Grow slowly & network consistently Don’t hire people until you’re walking on your last leg. Work with freelancers at most, if you would otherwise have to categorically reject jobs. Employees want to be paid on time, are entitled to an ergonomic…
This is part 5 of the 5 part series 15 Steps for successful Bootstrapping Narrow down your niche – the niche is your friend Who earns more? The hairdresser around the corner or the type and style consultant for career-conscious women who also does the hair and make-up? Sure, the latter. Go where there is…
Motivation When learning a specific language it is essential that you also learn the built-in functionality which gives you leverage. In Python there are often so called pythonic ways to solve problems like lambdas, filter function or enumerate. Tools that save you time when addressing real world problems. Use case Sometimes you want to do…
Motivation Many software developers use a multi monitor setup with two or three screens at 24 inches or more. Some folks like videoeditors even use giant curved screens with more than 34 inches. Thus it sometimes can become painful to find your mouse pointer on such big screen estate. But macOS got you covered. Settings…