Open-Source and related Stuff
I finally bit the bullet and installed OpenWRT on my Linksys WRT1900ACS (v2) router. The main reason was the stupid (and incredibly insecure) guest network implementation that the router came with. Despite supplying a password in the admin interface, the…
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Having a Raspberry Pi that functions as a backup device for laptops and mobile devices, large external hard drives are great. Only one drawback: they don’t ever spin down, potentially wearing them out before they should. Looking around for open-source…
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Yeah, I know, it has been a while I posted something. Somehow, lock downs tend to screw with your project schedules and blogging, which is usually at the bottom of the pile, gets pushed under the desk… Anyhow, not posting…
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Vim’s ability to call external process, allows you to quickly integrate some Python code snippets to do some work for you, e.g., for pretty-printing JSON and XML. Of course, for this to work, your Python 3 interpreter needs to be…
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One thing that had been missing from my sklearn-weka-plugin library was serialization support via pickle. Since I’m relying on my python-weka-wrapper3 library, I had to incorporate pickle support there first. This resulted in a new release: 0.2.1 With that in…
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Today, I managed to push out a range of things… For one thing, I finally sat down and cleaned up and consolidated the documentation of my python-weka-wrapper3 library. The instructions are now always aimed at creating a virtual environment rather…
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Every now and then, I need to move a git repository from one host to another. And since I don’t do that very often, I always forget the sequence of commands! This stackoverflow post outlines the process: In words: create…
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Well, I just managed to hit a little milestone with my python-weka-wrapper3 library: 100 stars on Github! 🙂
For a while now, I’ve been wanting to add forecasting support to my python-weka-wrapper3 library. Problem was that I was so busy with work and also other projects in my spare time, that I just didn’t find the time to…
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During last year’s Covid-19 lock-down here down-under, our Linux and Python meetings were partially held as virtual events. Thanks to the NZOSS, we had access to a BigBlueButton instance, an awesome open-source video conferencing tool. Back then, I didn’t have…
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