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Tuesday Tooling: I'm a Massive Faker, With Python

Need to make a lot of fake user data quickly? You need Faker. So What Is It? Faker, by Daniele Faraglia, is a Python module that generates fake data. Not for nefarious means,

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Tuesday Tooling: Debugging Python With Icecream

This is a "sweet treat" of a Python module

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Tuesday Tooling: Build Simple Web Apps with PyWebIO

Create simple and elegant HTML web apps using Python, and yes you can use this with the Raspberry Pi!

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Tuesday Tooling: sh

The return of Tuesday Tooling and we start with a little Python module for when we need to "just run that one terminal command".

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Tuesday Tooling: cmdpxl

Create and edit pixel images, using Python via the Terminal, oh and using the keyboard WASD keys.

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Tuesday Tooling: Nerd-Dictation

Tired of typing? Try talking to your computer, it will guess most of the words correctly, often leading to a little fun.

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Tuesday Tooling: Visualise Data in the Terminal

You don't need a desktop to visualise data, we can do it all with Python directly in the terminal.

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toms hardware

Once More Around the Sun

June 1st 2021 marks my first anniversary at Tom's Hardware as Associate Editor. In this short space of time I've covered many Raspberry Pi announcements, written tutorials in multiple languages...

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Tuesday Tooling: Plot Maps With Python

Use a little Python code to add points of interest to a map.

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Tuesday Tooling: Build Pretty Python Interfaces

Asking questions has never been so useful!

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Tuesday Tooling: Simulate Keyboard and Mouse Input with Python

Simulate a keyboard and moue using Python.

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Tuesday Tooling: That's Rich!

Make the Python REPL unique with a little help from rich!

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Tuesday Tooling: Copy & Paste From the Terminal and Python

Copy / paste, we do this all day. So lets automate it!

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Tuesday Tooling: Stack Overflow in the Terminal!

Search StackOverflow from the terminal! Now you can be the ultimate problem solver!

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Tuesday Tooling: Glances

Keep an eye on all your systems, both near and far. Audit their usage automatically, and save yourself some time for that extra coffee break.

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Tuesday Tooling: Working with ZIP files in Python

A quick and easy introduction to using ZIP files with Python.

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Tuesday Tooling: PyBoy - Python Gameboy emulator

A Nintendo Gameboy, in Python, but this is so much more than just for playing games.

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Friday Fun: Light up a life!

Light up the lives of our key workers! Here is one project that we can build using arts and crafts materials. We will look at four common boards and how we can use them in the project.

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Tooling Tuesday: Catch the news!

Get the news headlines...really easily!

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Tooling Tuesday: Filestack

Need to upload a file for use in a project? Don't want to faff with Dropbox, Google Drive, servers? Try Filestack, it might just save you some time.

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Tooling Tuesday: Get Transport Data

Get live data for trains, buses, coaches, ferries in the UK using a very cool API and a little JSON knowledge.

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Tooling Tuesday: pdftotext

Convert a PDF file to text in Python...and then you can do anything with the text. Even create your own audiobook!

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Tooling Tuesday: Magic Wormhole

Need to send a file? All your USB sticks are missing? Use a wormhole!

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Tooling Tuesday: Pretty Errors in Python

Make every error pretty with this handy library.

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Tooling Tuesday - Nexmo API and Python

Want to learn how to send an SMS via Python and node-RED? Well there is an API for that!

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