A few times now I’ve had to use the Google Drive Python API for projects – listing files in drive, modifying sheets etc. And it always takes me forever to figure out how to setup authentication properly! In my opinion the Google Python quickstart does not provide what most users are looking for. And neither […]
Read More Authorise your Python Google Drive API – the easy wayThough there’s plenty of advice scattered around the internet on improving speed, performance and lighthouse scores for Nuxt apps, I thought I’d summarise a few things I’ve found especially helpful in a short post. Note – though I’ve personally only applied these techniques to Nuxt apps, they should work with any SSR Vue projects. 1) […]
Read More Improving Lighthouse scores and performance in Nuxt projectsEver since I visited d3js.org and saw the examples of what people build with it, I was inspired and wanted to have a go – I’m pretty sure most developers are the same. But I never found the time or reason to use it until this week, (the week before my uni exams 👌), when […]
Read More The Productivity Puzzle, and D3.jsI have been keeping my podcast, Distinguished Devs, ticking over for a little while now, and though I don’t have loads of episodes, I’ve learned a ton and was keen to share some of that knowledge. So I was delighted when Stack Overflow commissioned me to write an article for the Stack Overflow blog on […]
Read More The most successful developers share more than they takeIf you stay up to date with niche software news, your ears may recently have twitched at the release of a new programming language: V. New hobby-project programming languages are released all the time, you would correctly argue; what makes this one special? The answer is a number of design choices which promote speed and safety: V is tiny and very fast
Read More The V Programming Language: Vain Or Virtuous?I recently bought a new phone, because my old one’s battery capacity had degraded to the point where it couldn’t last me through the day – an experience that’s fairly common. The pain of financial expenditure fresh in my head, I decided to investigate what I could do to look after the battery of my […]
Read More A smart charger that preserves your phone batteryMy electronics workbench was missing one crucial component: a power supply. For years I’d got by as a broke student testing my projects with an assortment of DC adaptors, LiPos, AAs, small buck/boost converters and linear regulators. But enough was enough. I had been bitten by no current limit enough times: it was time to […]
Read More Making a DIY power supply from an old stereo ampOne of my favourite posts that I wrote for Hackaday recently was the coverage of what’s new in the latest Python release. You can read the full article here. Also of interest might be: Stop Using Python 2: What You Need To Know About Python 3 Make Your Python Prettier With Decorators Python’s Iterators and […]
Read More Hands on with Python 3.7: what’s new in the latest releaseI recently bought this fairly chunky buck converter from China, manufactured by a company called Yeeco. Despite its price, it works well and the quality of manufacture is high. You can set voltage and a current limit on the “control panel”, and you get some CV/CC lights too – it tries to behave like a […]
Read More Secret UART On Cheap DCDC convertersThis is a project that I’ve had on the back-burner for a while, but recently got around to finishing. It still needs some tuning but it’s getting there. Since I wanted to be able to control it from my phone, it uses a Raspberry Pi Zero W to handle WiFi communications. For a cheap, easily […]
Read More Balancing robot
Ben James 