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Making HTML reports from markdown files

25th December 201925th December 2019 M SmithLeave a comment

Since having found Markdown a few years back I have become a big fan. Markdown is a language that allows you to write plain text that can be converted into …

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Business

What is Markdown?

25th December 201925th December 2019 M Smith1 Comment

https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or …

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Python

Environment Variables in Python

17th October 201917th October 2019 M SmithLeave a comment

Many python scripts require access to external services. API’s for example often require some credentials to be used in order to be able to access the services. These scripts need …

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App Engine notes and resources

9th September 20192nd October 2019 M SmithLeave a comment

Installation Using Google App Engine requires having the Google Cloud SDK installed on your local machine. This SDK allows for deployment of the application into Google App Engine. Windows installation: …

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Data Analysis

Moneyball 2.0 Soccer edition – StarTalk Radio

5th May 20195th May 2019 M SmithLeave a comment

Notes taken from StarTalk Radio’s podcast about how data and analytics is affecting the soccer industry worldwide. Dan Altman – North Yard Analytics http://www.northyardanalytics.com/ Leading in soccer analytics field: Dan …

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Self Hosting Video on Digital Ocean

18th April 201911th May 2019 M SmithLeave a comment

Recently I have been playing around with Spaces on Digital Ocean. This is Digital Oceans version of object storage (think S3 for Amazon or Google Cloud Storage). Spaces comes with …

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Web Analytics

From Google to Matomo

20th October 201816th October 2018 M SmithLeave a comment

After some thought I have decided to move away from Google Analytics and over to the Matomo Analytics to track visits to this site. The main reason for this is …

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Business

Nassim Nicholas Taleb at BLOCKCON

16th October 2018 M SmithLeave a comment

A conversation between Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Naval Ravikant at Blockcon. Taleb is an author who popularised the term ‘Black Swan’ and has a book by the same name. In …

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cybersecurity

Brave Browser – Changing the Economics of the web

24th June 201824th October 2019 M SmithLeave a comment

Brendan Eich, the co-founder and CEO of the Brave Browser, (and also inventor of JavaScript), recently went on the Jolly Swagmen podcast. On this episode he talks about what led …

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Business

Tracking first visits to a website

4th June 2018 M SmithLeave a comment

In the world of marketing and advertising there is always the need to understand what kind of effect the activity is having. After all you only do marketing because you …

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