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Jetbrains PyCharm consumes extremely amount of hard drive space > 1TB on Mac OS X

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

just remove that file:

rm /System/Volumes/Data/Users/$(whoami)/Library/Caches/JetBrains/PyCharm2022.3/python_packages/packages_v2.json

regullary occuring on Mac OS X Ventura 13.4.1 (22F82)

Pycharm version PyCharm 2022.3 (Professional Edition)

daily stoics

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Daily Stoic | Stoic Wisdom For Everyday Life (Ryan Holiday) - my best book of 2023 becomes my everyday source for bit of meditation in 2024 too

the book to keep calm

its english version:

Mac OS X convert text to speech (automator context menu Quick Action) and add it to playlist in Music.app

Sun, 07 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I like running.

I like reading longr, more in depth text and analysis e.g regarding economy or social policies.

This workflow takes selected text and converts text to speech using apple text to speech and adds recording straight into Music.app (old iTunes) to the selected playlist.

The last “manual” bit is taking care to sync it of course to old school iPod classic (without internet and all the bullshit distractors)

upload file to google drive with and without persistancy ∞ Google Colab Snippets

Fri, 09 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

file(s) upload

After running the:

from google.colab import files
uploaded_files = files.upload()

you will get button for file(s) upload

the upload_files is dictionary containing file names as keys and file content as value.

preview

you can easily preview the files, evne binary ones with files.view('filename.png')

where are my files???? Why were they lost?

When you upload your files you might be suprised why this are not visible inside the google drive

This files are just temporary for lifetime of running the notebook, until you….

mount your google drive

from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('/content/drive')

WARNING: you will be prompted by google to gran notebook runtime to your google drive

after navigating to proper directory and running upload again, you will find now your files persisted inside your gdrive

happy coding 👩‍💻👨‍💻❤️

download created file + preview in browser ∞ Google Colab Snippets

Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

imagine you produced some file and want download it to your computer:

below the snippet + bonus option for nice preview of files:

read google spreadsheet ∞ Google Colab Snippets

Sat, 03 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

read file from google drive ∞ Google Colab Snippets

Sat, 03 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Imagine you would like to process some file based next to your noteboook.

If you try to acess it without certain prerequisit (in form of mounting, and moving to proper directory) you will get FileNotFoundErrror

You have to do the following:

1) mount google drive

from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('/content/drive')

2) navigate to right directory

import os
os.chdir('/content/drive/My Drive/Colab Notebooks/python-audio-processing')

Some example with reading audio file:

freezgun - to the rescue for tests relaying on time

Sat, 03 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Time related issues are tricky part in software engineering. So they require proper testing.

parametrize tested methods/functions with explicit time passed - sometimes a bit kind of test-only usage, because inside anyway datetime.now() is used
mocking
using specialized library like freezgun for efficent time mocks

Two major options to use freezgun in your tests:

conext manager
decorator

other cool things

support for timezones
support for manual ticking and auto ticking with delta

more: https://github.com/spulec/freezegun

Google colab notebooks 🙏❤️ - useful stuff [intro, usages, pip, installing]

Fri, 02 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

INTRO

Is there something more lovely than having python interpreter accessible via web browser with jupyter on whatever computer with just internet access?

I know jupyter notebooks (and jupyterhub instance as server for creating and running notebooks in my company) but having it offered as part of Google free services was great surprise!

my personal use cases:

playing with new libraries
automating borning staff (e.g paying monthly taxes, bills by generating payments package I just upload in online banking, automated messaging of customers)
debugging
consuming 3-rd party API-s
visualizing data by ploting graphs

It comes with plethora of pre-installed useful python libraries for data science and machine learning:

below short-list with links to documentation

data, scientific calculations

natural language processing libraries like:

machine learning

image processing

audio processing

torchaudio

getting started

https://colab.research.google.com/

installing libs, checking whats already there

to install smth new

!pip install package-name

to check what is already installed

!pip freeze

Lower dopamine smartphone user

Wed, 17 Feb 2021 10:50:17 +0000

short list

remove all the social media apps, dont fool yourself you need it for communication, relationships, bla bla.

notifications

turn off as much off notifications as possible. Really checking your email few times a day is perfectly fine.

first screen

clean your start screen. I ended up with:
- camera,
- weather,
- calendar,
- Noisli (sounds for better focus),
- JakDojade (local path finder),
- Google Maps,
- Gmail,
- Drive,
- Calculator,
- AdobeScan,
- Desk Control (sti stand desk control)
- Clock
- Translate app

grayscale - useful trick to notice, you should already stop using your phone.

true to be told gray screen is far less atractive than colorful one. I have configured my iphone, so with simple shrotcut I can turn on / turn off that feature.

Setup your screen for grayscale

Step 1: Set up Grayscale.

Open your iPhone’s Settings > Accessibility
Select Display & Text Size
Scroll and select Color Filters
Toggle Color Filter On and then check Grayscale

Step 2: Create the Grayscale shortcut, which lets you easily switch it on and off.

Go to iOS Settings > Accessibility
Scroll down to Accessibility Shortcut > select to check Color Filter
Once configured, triple-click the side button to turn the Grayscale filter on and off. 

### paperback notes for what to search on the Internet Use paperback for taking notes, what you “need” to check on the internet. Most of this things afterwards for me turns out to be compulsive and not needed at all.

night-shift - lower blue light in later part of the day

Use software like https://justgetflux.com/ on your desktop and/or smartphone if you don’t own the built-in night-shift options for reducing blue ligth decreasing your melatonin production.

andilabs - Python dev shop from Warsaw, Poland

Jetbrains PyCharm consumes extremely amount of hard drive space > 1TB on Mac OS X

daily stoics

Daily Stoic | Stoic Wisdom For Everyday Life (Ryan Holiday) - my best book of 2023 becomes my everyday source for bit of meditation in 2024 too

the book to keep calm

its english version:

Mac OS X convert text to speech (automator context menu Quick Action) and add it to playlist in Music.app

upload file to google drive with and without persistancy ∞ Google Colab Snippets

file(s) upload

preview

where are my files???? Why were they lost?

mount your google drive

happy coding 👩‍💻👨‍💻❤️

download created file + preview in browser ∞ Google Colab Snippets

read google spreadsheet ∞ Google Colab Snippets

read file from google drive ∞ Google Colab Snippets

Imagine you would like to process some file based next to your noteboook.

1) mount google drive

2) navigate to right directory

Some example with reading audio file:

freezgun - to the rescue for tests relaying on time

Few ideas how to tackle testing time related part of code:

Two major options to use freezgun in your tests:

other cool things

Google colab notebooks 🙏❤️ - useful stuff [intro, usages, pip, installing]

INTRO

my personal use cases:

It comes with plethora of pre-installed useful python libraries for data science and machine learning:

data, scientific calculations

natural language processing libraries like:

machine learning

image processing

audio processing

getting started

installing libs, checking whats already there

to install smth new

to check what is already installed

Lower dopamine smartphone user

short list

social media

notifications

first screen

grayscale - useful trick to notice, you should already stop using your phone.

night-shift - lower blue light in later part of the day

appendix - protect your kids by CodeTwo and Szymon Szczesniak