Microsoft works word processor files had a file extension of “.wps”. Works was last released in 2007 and unfortunately current versions of word cannot open old word processor wps files. Use LibreOffice to Open WPS Files I’ve found that the best solution is to use LibreOffice, an open source office product. In a lot of… Read More »
This post goes through the general idea of an index, why a card index might be useful, and some examples of a card index being used. Card index systems are largely a thing of the past, but they still come up from time in archives and libraries around the world. What is an index? An… Read More »
This post shows how to make a Raspberry Pi Carbon Dioxide Monitor using a raspberry pi connected to a USB carbon dioxide monitor. The project is deliberately bare bones and leaves several opportunities for refinement, improvement and general tinkering. What we are aiming to make The following schematic shows what we will be building up… Read More »
Web scraping is the process of automatically identifying and downloading data from a webpage. This blog post looks a a few python web scraping options. Alternatives to web scraping include: – Using an API. Usually a better option than web scraping if an API is available. See also Creating an API with flask. Open data… Read More »
The original inspiration for this post is this medium post which shows how a single (long) command can generate a markdown contents table for GitHub. The command is specifically for GitHub as it relies on the auto-generated links that the site makes, rather than needing to add links manually. In my post I wanted to… Read More »