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Practical Python Projects book is now available! Learn how to implement 12 end-to-end projects to enhance your Python knowledge. Author, Blogger & artist who can’t make up his mind. Home Art Projects Learn Git About ? My Books Practical Python Projects In 325+ pages I will help you implement 12 end-to-end projects to enhance your Python knowledge. Intermediate Python In this free, open-source, and widely-read book, you will learn some intermediate Python concepts. Source ? Hi everyone! I am Yasoob ! You might know me from Practical Python Projects or the Intermediate Python book. Welcome to my personal blog which is going to be the new home for all of my old and new articles. You can turn on "dark mode" by clicking on the moon (right before the RSS icon) in the side-bar. I hope you enjoy your stay ? Newsletter × If you liked what you read then I am sure you will enjoy a newsletter of the content I create. I send it out every other month. It contains new stuff that I make, links I find interesting on the web, and occasional discount coupons for my book. Join the 5000+ other people who receive my newsletter: I send out the newsletter once every other month. No spam, I promise + you can unsubscribe at anytime ✍️ Latest Articles Feb 23, 2024 Running Go code from Elixir Using Web Assembly In this article, I will show you how to compile Go code to target WASI and run it from an Elixir host. You will also learn how to pass data to Go and get a response back using pipes. (1025 words) Aug 26, 2023 How to Use Apple Vision Framework via PyObjC for Text Recognition Let’s learn how to make use of Apple’s Vision Framework from Python (via PyObjC) to detect and recognize text in images. Along the way, you will learn quite a bit about how to use PyObjC to interface with different Objective C classes, functions and methods. (2378 words) Feb 12, 2023 How to Efficiently Reorder or Rerank Items in Database Ever wondered how Jira and Trello store the order of tasks or issues? How they can effortlessly reorder items in the database even when there are a million items? In this article, you will gain an understanding of reordering and reranking techniques and how to store order information in the database to facilitate efficient reordering. (1718 words) Aug 11, 2022 Project Write-up: Display Spotify lyrics on external display I came across a job posting on Upwork where someone was looking for a software that plays the lyrics of a Spotify song on dual screens. I was really intrigued so I decided to give it a go. In this article I am going to talk about the whole thought process I went through while trying to figure out a solution as I think that part is often missing from programming tutorials. (1564 words) Apr 28, 2022 Setting Up Custom Root Domain using Webflow and Cloudflare Are you trying to set up a custom root domain with Webflow & Cloudflare but it is not working? I recently did the same and faced some issues. Let me save you some time and show you how to set it up. By the end, you will have working redirection from www subdomain to your root domain. (1014 words) Apr 24, 2022 Extracting WhatsApp messages from an iOS backup Have you ever been interested in how Apple saves the iOS backup files and how you can extract particular files from a backup? In this article, I will show you the different encryptions involved in creating an iOS backup, how to decrypt the data, and how to extract WhatsApp chats from an iOS backup. (2185 words) Apr 23, 2022 Web Automation With Selenium And Python In this article we will take a look at how we can automate basic web interactions using Selenium. By the end of this article you will have an automated booking bot that can reserve court space for you automatically. You will also learn about XPath and how to traverse an HTML document using Python, LXML and XPath. (2578 words) Sep 22, 2021 How to get a job in big-tech (Internships/New grads)? Are you looking to break into big-tech? In this post, I share some tips and tricks that helped me get an internship + job at Microsoft. You don’t need to spend every waking minute grinding Leetcode. You can be smart and prepare for the interview a bit more strategically. Read the article to learn more. (2321 words) Aug 04, 2021 How to web scrape on Schedule using Github Actions? I recently got to work on a web scraping project that I deployed on GitHub. The scraper runs daily on a schedule and emails the extracted data all for free using GitHub Actions! In this article, I will show you how I developed this project and how you too can make use of GitHub Actions for free. (3110 words) Apr 12, 2021 Understanding and Generating a UPC-A barcode using Python I have always been fascinated with barcodes and QR codes. I theoretically knew how barcodes worked but I wanted to solidify my understanding by making one from scratch. In this article, I will take you on a guided tour of how barcodes work and how we can make one from scratch using Python. I will focus on Universal Product Code type A (UPC-A) for this tutorial. (3795 words) All articles Email Twitter LinkedIn...