Our 1st Post Pandemic Trip I retired two years ago because of the pandemic…also I was eligible. I’d been looking forward to traveling and camping once I was free. Then the corona hit. The wife and I did the hermit thing and didn’t go anywhere in public. We decided 2022 would be our ‘break-free’ year. …

Several apps I code use a database. Many databases can be coupled with Python. Most of the compatible databases are either SQL-based or document-based. I prefer a document-based database called MongoDB. MongoDB is a bit intensive to learn but a breeze to use. Since I use a database for over…

I was talking with a friend of mine a while back. He was brainstorming ideas for a birthday party for his tween. I had recently watched a show on TV about people with extraordinary abilities. One of the subjects could tell the day’s name of any given date. Sounded like…

My last post was about creating a list of times to choose in an appointment-type app. In that app I also have a list of the days of the week. day_names = [ 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday', 'Sunday', ] And, as in my previous post, I wanted to…

I was coding an appointment app the other day. It is a part of a calendar program I’ve been working off and on for a year. I used a drop-down list of times in a PyQt6 combo box (QComboBox). My initial list is not too long, but quite long enough. …

or How Not to Lose Your Mind You are deeply involved in an activity. Suddenly, an idea completely unrelated pops into your head. Instead of stopping what you are doing, you think to yourself, “I’ll remember that”. But, you don’t. Happened to me all the time. I say “happened”. My solution was to code a web-based note-taking…

The Call for Police Reform It has been more than a year since George Floyd was killed by a police officer in Minneapolis. His death ignited the fight for police reform across the country in the form of countless protests that continue to this day. A police reform bill that would ban chokeholds and overhaul…

I live in a multi-language household. We all communicate quite well but sometimes there is a bit of a language barrier. This problem usually pops up with letters and correspondence. I recently came across an article for a simple text translator in just 4 lines of code. So, of course…

The Learning Never Stops… A couple of months ago I posted a tutorial about building an interactive calendar using python and PyQt5. The project incorporated two separate GUI’s in two different files. One was for the calendar and appointments display. The other was the input form for adding new appointments. …