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UIKit Searching with UISearchController & UISearchBar

UIKit includes UISearchBar and UISearchController to help you build search features. They are simple APIs but it isn't clear (at least...

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Play Ball

Baseball season is tantalizingly close. The exhibition Bay Bridge series is under way at AT&T park. Last night Samardzija threw 5 crisp...

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Django Task Queue

My django app needs to periodically fetch and process data from a 3rd party API. I need a task queue. Celery is the big dog. It's well...

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Validate x509 Certificate in Python

I need to validate a x509 certificate's chain of trust in python. TL;DR version is that you can use PyOpenSSL. The code below gives an...

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In Our Time Podcast

My favorite podcast is In Our Time with Melvin Bragg. I have learned so much from it over the years. It takes the format of a weekly...

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Python Development on OSX

Setting up OS X for python development can be confusing because there are multiple options. Below I go into more detail but the TL;DR...

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Cover Photo

My blog cover photo is of a female Hoplitis fulgida bee from the astoundingly beautiful USGS Bee Inventory & Monitoring Lab photostream...

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