I’m always blown away by California’s beauty, and kayak camping in Tomales Bay provided yet another opportunity to astound.

The Route

After reading Adam’s kayak camping piece, we were sold on also using the Intex Challenger K2 Kayak (normally these retail for ~$99 on Amazon, but because everyone had the sudden desire to go outdoors, the price had spiked, and we ended up getting them on Craigslist for $240 each). We were a little nervous paddling across the open bay in them with all our gear, so we opted to launch from Inverness and paddle the 5 miles up the coast along…

Ever wanted a nice timeline view of all of your favorite tweets?! Collections are for you! The end result will look something like this:

This tutorial goes through how to create and add to collections via python3, and the code can be seen in a gist here.

Getting Started

You’ll need both a Twitter account and a Twitter developer account. You can obtain the developer account here. You’ll then need to create an app in order to obtain all the necessary API keys and tokens, as seen below. Note that you should have both read and write access. …