Learned something interesting today. There is a word list text file on my Linux Mint computer that contains over 100,000 English words. In fact, there are several word files for some common languages. Your word files may vary based on your Linux distribution or locale. The files are in …

I have made a couple of small changes to the Can of Worms website to improve user anonymity.

The Google Analytics link has been removed. I really don't want to track you or anything like that. I would only glean a small amount of information while enabling Google to more …

There are some great note taking applications available these days. I want to call out two that I've used within the last year.

I look for key features in a note taking application. Without these, it isn't worth using.

• Supports Markdown syntax
• Has Markdown preview
• Allows grouping notes together
• Supports …

A powerful feature of decent CAD applications is a "block" library of symbols that can easily be inserted into a drawing. This allows you to reuse groups of objects without having to redraw them each time. If you are learning CAD, make it a priority to learn how to use …

I don't think the Kelvin temperature scale gets enough love and respect.

So, I've come up with a slogan for Kelvin, It's...

"Kelvin: We stop at nothing".

When building a slightly more complex application using PySimpleGUI, you may run into the need to store user preferences to a file. This allow persisting some information or custom settings for the next time the user runs the application.

UPDATE: 08/12/2020

Not sure how I missed this the …

I was wondering if some advanced menu features were available in PySimpleGui. Mainly, could you have check boxes next to items on the menu to show the state of that item? The screen shot below show menu checks in action in Visual Studio Code.

PySimpleGui has the ability to create …

The inspiration for this article comes from an email I received from Luke Harrison. He had created an SQL Cheat Sheet that he was rightfully proud of and was wanting to share and promote it.

It just so happens that I love cheat sheets. I find them useful for giving …

Beginner Level

When learning python, the first thing to do is... well... learn python. There is a lot to learn. A basic understanding of the language covers things like:

• Basic expressions (variables, statements)
• What is a function
• Flow control (if, iterations)
• Basic data types (strings, integers, floats)
• Data building blocks …

One of my latest goals is to publish applications that I write. It's called "Pelican Article Generator". It spits out a template for these blog posts. Publishing an applicatin to the world is potentially embarrassing because I'm showing my horrible code to the world. Oh well.

Here are the goals …