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How to Manually Add Phrases to Localize.js

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Localize.js is a great service. Gone are the days of having to internationalize your websites by hand. That being said, existing UI has a pretty annoying in my opinion limitation – there is no way to add phrases manually. 99% of the time, Localize.js is able to automatically pick up all of the phrases on […]

How to Rollback WordPress 5 to older version

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Update: 2021 I am now happily using new editor I usually update my WordPress as soon as I can for security reasons. I tried WordPress 5 and I did not like it. My main complain is that I write in WordPress using Markdown and it is not well supported in WordPress 5. My posts were […]

YouTube should Stream Audio for Free

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I should be able to lock my phone while using YouTube and still hear the sound in the background. Currently this functionally is only available to YouTube Premium subscribers for $12 a month. This is a bad business practice for YouTube and a bad thing for the world. Bad for Youtube Why is it bad […]

How to use Virtualenv in Python to Install Packages Locally

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There are two philosophies when it comes to package installation, global first and local first. Global meaning all applications that rely on a certain package have access to the same copy of the library that was installed once. Local means that each project has its own folder of dependencies installed specifically for this project and […]

5 Location Based Reminder Apps for Absent Minded – Guest Post

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As smartphones have become part and parcel of our lives to the extent that they almost have engaged us, it should be made sure that we effectively navigate the perilous minefield known as life. From ensuring that we don’t miss any necessary birthdays, occasions or dinner dates, mobile phones nowadays can also provide you reminders […]

Have Firefox Read to You and How to Force Reader View

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TLDR; Use blue page icon in the title bar (see image bellow) or about:reader?url= in front of your URL to switch to reading mode in Firefox. New FireFox has a “Reader” mode, that you can activate by clicking on the “document” button, highlighted in blue (in the nav bar) in the screenshot above. Part of […]

Transcribing Speech to Text with Python and Google Cloud Speech API

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This tutorial will walk through using Google Cloud Speech API to transcribe a large audio file. All code and sample files can be found in speech-to-text GitHub repo. Transcribe large audio files using Python & our Cloud Speech API. @akras14 shows how https://t.co/dY56lmE0TD — Google Cloud (@googlecloud) January 11, 2018 View Post Sample Results This […]

Do NOT Share Your Google Photos

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All shared Google Photos are open to the public, even if they were only shared with specific people. This is different from Google Drive, where only people granted permission via the “Share with others” drop-down are able to view the content. Below is a screenshot of my private album (that I shared with one person) […]

How to read CSV file in Python

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TLDR; Using pandas (pip install pandas) Using native csv.DictReader Reading as a List Let’s say we have the following CSV file, named actors.csv. You can download this file here. The first method demonstrated in Python docs would read the file as follows: Open the file Create a CSV reader Skip first line (header) For every line (row) in […]