Working with Fixed Headers in CSS
Posted 6th December 2024
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Lots of websites use fixed headers as part of their design, but there are often unintended consequences to implementing such a design element.
Build a Docker container image
Posted 25th November 2024
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Linux containers are a way to build a self-contained environment that includes software, libraries, and other tools. They’re immensely useful and this guide describes my method for creating them.
Switch off the GPU in a Python script
Posted 28th October 2024
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Here’s a simple piece of code which effectively directs a Python script to use the CPU rather than the GPU.
Divide Label Studio YOLO annotation files into training and validation sets
Posted 17th October 2024
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Label Studio is an open-source data-labelling platform used to prepare training data for machine learning models.
Setting-up Git Large File Storage on a GitHub repository
Posted 16th October 2024
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Help! I just committed some large files to GitHub and now I can’t push them because they’re too big.
Download and extract a tarball in Python
Posted 9th October 2024
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A simple method for downloading a tarball from the internet and then extracting its contents in Python.
Installing RStudio in WSL2
Posted 22nd July 2024
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Installing RStudio within the Windows Subsystem for Linux was not as simple as expected, once I started installing packages in R. Here’s my procedure for getting it all to work seamlessly.
Replace a string in file names recursively in Linux
Posted 5th June 2024
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Use this simple BASH script to recursively rename parts of file names in Linux.
Crop images in Python with array indexes
Posted 22nd May 2024
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The advantage of this simple procedure for image cropping is that there’s no need to install special image manipulation packages.
Stop Git from always asking for user credentials
Posted 11th April 2024
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Here are a few methods for preventing Git from asking for user credentials upon every push.