A blog of technical trial and error

By Lindsay Lee

Logo of Google Compute Engine. White icon of a compute chip on a blue hexagon background

Connect to a remote GPU

gpu
ai
google cloud

Bring out the big guns
Nov 3, 2024
Lindsay Lee

A snippet of the old newspaper 'The Rugbeian and District Reporter' from Oct 7, 1882

Downloading newspapers from the Library of Congress

webscraping
python

Leveling up my webscraping game
Oct 19, 2024
Lindsay Lee

A diagram depicting how shinylive works from the documentation. The documenation says: When an application is deployed with Shinylive, Python and Shiny run in the web browser: the browser is effectively both the client and server for the application. There is a web server that serves files, but it does not run Python or Shiny—it can be a “dumb” static web server. Source: https://shiny.posit.co/py/docs/shinylive.html#deploying-shinylive-applications

Going live with Shinylive

shiny
web app
python
quarto

Am I a web developer?
Aug 1, 2024
Lindsay Lee

White sign reading 'Bus Departures Near Me' with the current time and a list of 4 buses with their route number in a red square, route direction, and estimated time of arrival

Making a custom bus departure sign

python
raspberry pi
google maps

Nashville’s transit system is bad but its data is not!
Jul 7, 2024
Lindsay Lee

Logo for GitHub with logo of Visual Studio Code on a purple ombre background

Get started with GitHub Codespaces

github
workflow

I’m on such a development-environment-manangement roll lately
Jun 9, 2024
Lindsay Lee

Logo for conda, a green C with some snake-like markings

Get started with conda

python
conda
workflow

I’ve put off learning this for too long
Apr 5, 2024
Lindsay Lee

Screenshot showing what happens when you begin to type the header snippet name in RStudio

I love RStudio code snippets

rstudio
r
quarto
workflow

I don’t love copy/pasting
Mar 31, 2024
Lindsay Lee

Logo of Apple Health app with cardiogram in background

Analyze health data from the Apple Watch

health
apple watch
r
python

Being #extra at my doctor’s appointment
Mar 30, 2024
Lindsay Lee

Inky Frame 7.3" e-ink display with Belcourt Theatre showtimes

Update on the Inky Frame

webscraping
python
raspberry pi
automation

Spoiler alert: the batteries died
Mar 21, 2024
Lindsay Lee

Inky Frame 7.3" e-ink display with Belcourt Theatre showtimes

Making my own box office sign with Scrapy and an Inky Frame

webscraping
python
raspberry pi
automation

The algorithm got me again
Feb 19, 2024
Lindsay Lee

Screenshot of Power BI report page with custom map in an ArcGIS visual

Drawing a custom map for Power BI

maps
power bi
r

It took like 4 different programs but we did it.
Mar 26, 2023
Lindsay Lee

Winking emoji in a medieval style, hand drawn by the author

Designing a custom font (with emojis)

fonts

Inspired by my sister’s awesome PhD work in Medieval French, I have been playing around with designing a custom font.
Mar 26, 2023
Lindsay Lee

Screenshot of a heatmap of Shelby County, TN 14-day COVID-19 case rate

Webscraping screenshots with Selenium

webscraping
python

No more repetitive copy-pasting!
Mar 26, 2023
Lindsay Lee
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