How to extract data from a JavaScript populated web page. — A very useful skill that keeps cropping up again and again (and again) is web-scraping. I have alluded to this in previous articles, but decided it is time it has its own. What is Selenium? Selenium is an open source tool allowing us to automate web browsers. We often use this with a…

How to query Generative Pre-trained Transformers programmatically. — In recent months (article written Nov 22), Generative Pre-trained Transformers have taken the world by storm. They seem to be the solution to many tasks, but also the epoch of many many headaches. …

You have a lecture series hosted on Vimeo, but are travelling to an area of poor internet — so what do you do? Use your programming knowledge to download all the videos in advance of course! Be it a flight, or you just want the videos for reference, there are…

When it comes to dynamic maps, conventional methods can only take us so far — but is there a better way? Background Colour blindness. Alt-text. Tab Index. Contrast. Screen Readers — it is easy to get distracted when talking about accessibility. In the dictionary, accessibility is defined as: “ The quality…

Playing Audible on Garmin devices — Problem You set up for a nice long run, turn your training programme on, leave the house and then realise you cannot listen to that great audiobook without a phone. This article is for you if, like me, you purchased a Garmin to minimise the number of things you have to…

Three simple points on good coding practice —

Overcoming CORS by use of the GitHub API — Background Often we want to use a publically hosted file from GitHub in our web application. This could be anything from a small data or configuration file, to a couple of lines of code used for testing. …

Using Facebook Research’s Detectron2 framework to identify and extract from people within a photograph — About The Series This article is part of a 2-piece set discussing the automated filtering of photographs. Identifying People in Photos using Python and Neural Networks Neural Image Assessment: Sorting photographs by Aesthetic and Technical Quality Background Many situations call that we identify photographs containing people within them. This could be from a security…

A simple guide on how to add a timekeeping module to the PI using its I2C ports. NOTE this tutorial is for current release Raspberry Pi OS’s. 1 — Insert the Module Most Pi compatible RTCs just slot directly onto the GPIO pins. If it is a 2x3 RTC, just plug it in at the…