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Sideload apps onto a Supernote device

Posted 7th May 2025

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A simple methodology for installing third-party applications on either the Supernote Nomad or Supernote Manta.

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List all Virtual Environments in Python

Posted 23rd April 2025

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A simple method exists for identifying all virtual environments that have been created using the virtualenv package in Python.

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A substitute for plyr’s mapvalues

Posted 7th April 2025

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The mapvalues() function in plyr was immensely useful, but with plyr’s retirement, it’s time to move on and find something better.

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Create LaTeX documents in Visual Studio Code with LaTeX Workshop

Posted 18th December 2024

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If you need to write LaTeX on your machine, this can be achieved comfortably with Visual Studio Code and Windows Subsystem for Linux.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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