It is not uncommon to messaging apps like Telegram to provide an API so we can create bots. This type of bots are easy to write and they are very versatile. …

The problem Changing Mouse wheel direction is so easy on Mac and Ubuntu that you treat it as a basic functionality that should be found on any mouse configuration interface. But turns out, it is not that easy to change your mouse configuration to natural scroll on Windows. I don't know why…

Recently I gave myself a new laptop and I decided to give Windows a try, before getting rid of it and installing Linux. Right at the start I had some good impression with how easy was to run Ubuntu on WSL, directly from Microsoft store. I also was impressed how…

If you work with python you probably used tuples at some point, but his cousin is less known. Named tuple are lightweight object types, similar to struct, or record types but immutable. Let’s check an example: >>> from collections import namedtuple >>> Point = namedtuple("Point", ["x", "y"]) >>> p1 = Point(4…

Those are the commands that I use on my daily work, that save me a lot of time and increases my productivity. tmux tmux allows multiple terminal sessions to be accessed simultaneously in a single window. It is useful for running more than one command-line program at the same time. …

Kafka topic analyzer kafka-topic-analyzer is a very simple to use CLI that gathers statistics about a Apache Kafka topic by reading it from beginning to end and counting various metrics. I find it very useful when handling big topics, specially the ones with log compaction enabled, making very easy to see if adjusts…

Wikipedia has a great definition of Kafka: Apache Kafka is a distributed event store and stream-processing platform. It is an open-source system developed by the Apache Software Foundation written in Java and Scala. The project aims to provide a unified, high-throughput, low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds. Kafka can…

This is the first post on a series of three posts about Raspberry Pi Pico, where I will walk you through my most recent projects. In this post, we will cover the basics, of how to set up the Raspberry Pi Pico and run your first python code on it…

Python one-liners can be just as powerful as a long and tedious program written in another language designed to do the same thing. In other languages this would be nearly impossible, but in Python, it’s a lot easier to do. The trick is to think of something that will “do…