Linda CaiMigrate a Flask site from EC2 to S3 + CloudFront, in 7 easy stepsThis work took about 2 hours total, and saves me $14 a month!Jun 16, 2022Jun 16, 2022
Linda CaiDraw a Colorful Coronavirus with MatplotlibComplete with a huge color palette (including CSS color names) and a myriad of markers, Matplotlib provides great value for an aspiring…Mar 15, 2020Mar 15, 2020
Linda CaiPlot a COVID-19 time series per countrySometimes, one plot at a time just isn’t enough, and you want an extremely tall PNG containing over 100 plots. Well, that’s very easy to…Mar 10, 20201Mar 10, 20201
Linda CaiPutting About 160 Deleted Stack Overflow Jokes into One FileI was dismayed when my favorite page on Stack Overflow, “What is your best programmer joke?”, got taken down in 2018. There’s even a…Oct 18, 2019Oct 18, 2019
Linda CaiA Journey into HaxeI recently discovered Haxe, a robust scripting language that cross compiles into many targets (JavaScript, Python, Java, and more!). I’ve…Mar 11, 2019Mar 11, 2019
Linda CaiGetting a Grip on grepMany of us use grep to rummage through our precious belongings. With these grep tips, save time and various other resources that may be…Feb 20, 2019Feb 20, 2019
Linda CaiAutomate Telling Jokes, with Python and AWS PollyTired of manually telling jokes? This article describes how to use AWS’s speech synthesizer, Polly, and a few common Python libraries, to…Feb 11, 2019Feb 11, 2019