Posts

• Wednesday, September 14, 2022

  Published - ydl-fetch

  My wrapper for youtube-dl / yt-dlp has been published to GitHub at github.com/palevell/ydl_fetch

• Thursday, May 7, 2020

  Thanks for the shout-out, Max!

  Maxime Bernier is trying to help get my Twitter accounts back online. Thank you, Max!
• Sunday, February 9, 2020

  Disabling Laptop Touch Devices

  Script to toggle laptop touch devices ON/OFF
• Tuesday, January 14, 2020

  PATCH - Long Tweets in youtube-dl (updated)

  I finally had a chance to dig into this a bit further, and devised a more permanent fix (see the gist, below).

• Saturday, December 28, 2019

  Tweepy with Django-Allauth

  I have been experimenting to see which web framework would make the better wrapper for Tweepy. I decided on Django, with the Allauth package.
• Friday, December 27, 2019

  Flask-vs-Django

  After working with Flask for over a year, I am finding Django to be much more to my liking.
• Tuesday, December 17, 2019

  Fernet Encryption Example

  This is the best (useful) example of Fernet encryption that I have found, so far.
• Thursday, November 28, 2019

  Advanced Task Scheduling with launchd

  The launchd daemon accepts arrays of date dictionaries in the "StartCalendarInterval" tag of plist files
• Monday, November 11, 2019

  PPC Twitterbot Project

  Back in February, I started a research project using the Tweepy library in Python. Around that time, the leader of the People’s Party of Canada (PPC), Maxime Bernier, asked people to follow the accounts that he followed, and retweet their tweets.

• Friday, November 8, 2019

  Updated Resumé

  Now that the 2019 federal elections are over in Canada, it is time to update my resumé. I decided to give the Spinx documentation tools a try, instead of using the word processing document that I have used since university.

• Tuesday, October 22, 2019

  Election Results

  Based on the YouTube video statisics of the party leaders’ media scrums, Maxime Bernier was the clear favourite–he had the most views & engagement, and highest approval rating. Andrew Scheer was a distant second, with less than 25% of Bernier’s engagement, and an approval rating of 50%.

• Thursday, June 20, 2019

  Pelican Themes Randomizer

  This script chooses a random theme from pelican-themes--great for testing!
• Wednesday, June 19, 2019

  Pelican Themes

  Sample Pelican config file for testing pelican-themes
• Friday, February 9, 2018

  January Job Numbers for Canada

  

• Sunday, January 28, 2018

  Bitcoin for Newbies

  

• Sunday, December 31, 2017

  Happy New Year!

  2018 will be the BEST year, ever.

• Friday, December 22, 2017

  Merry Christmas!

  Merry Christmas!

• Wednesday, November 8, 2017

  Disaster Recovery

  

• Friday, September 15, 2017

  Code Tidbit: t-clean.py (Twitter + Python)

  This is an excerpt.
• Tuesday, September 12, 2017

  Code Tidbit: PyLocalNow (Python)

  What is PyLocalNow?

• Monday, March 3, 2014

  Code Tidbit: edsh

  This is an excerpt.
• Sunday, June 22, 2003

  Job Master Inquiry

  What is the Job Master?

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