Connect to GitHub via SSH on Linux
Posted 15th September 2021
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If you’re tired of entering a username and password each time you push to a GitHub repository on the command line, a secure method for bypassig this is to set-up a connection using a set of SSH keys.
Calculating “Feels Like” Temperatures
Posted 18th August 2021
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Use the Aeris Weather API to calculate Australian Ambient Temperature (AT) or “feels like” calculations from private weather station data published to PWSweather.
Creating a custom unique ID in a SharePoint list
Posted 3rd August 2021
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Use Power Automate with SharePoint to create a customisable unique ID number in a list that does not rely on secondary lists to work.
Bounding rectangles in Python OpenCV
Posted 20th July 2021
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There are two methods in OpenCV to derive a bounding rectangle and extract the relevant values of an object or series of objects in an image.
Use selective criteria to count files in PowerShell
Posted 1st July 2021
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Use Windows PowerShell to easily return some key statistics about the files contained on your computer or network drives using selective criteria.
Changing date formats in R
Posted 21st June 2021
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Dates come in all sorts of formats, but R generally prefers dates in the format YYYY-MM-DD. Here’s a quick method to convert date formats in R.
Cumulative totals by group in R
Posted 4th June 2021
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Use Tidyverse’s dplyr package in R to add cumulative totals to a table based on group.
Tips for cleaning-up an R session
Posted 29th May 2021
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Sometimes one just needs a “clean slate” in R, particularly when using R Studio. Here are my quick tips for cleaning up an R session in R Studio:
Managing RAW photos with Python
Posted 23rd April 2021
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Use Python to recursively scan directories and remove unused and redundant CR2 files.
Convert RGB to CMYK in Python
Posted 26th March 2021
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Efficient Python code for taking a RGB image and converting it to CMYK before splitting the relevant channels out.