To-Done is a plugin for Sublime Text for plain text task management. It’s a great start in my opinion. The two big aspects are the custom formatting of the text view and the Sublime Text Goto menu for finding tasks.
It lacks a lot of the custom feel of PlainTasks for Sublime, but that may be a bonus for some people.
Google has an excellent introduction to Python. It comes with succinct introductions to some of the fundamentals as well as lecture videos and exercises.
Derek Lowe once again provides a well thought perspective on the FDA letter. He narrows in on some of the specific details:
Moreover, the FDA wants to judge not the analytic validity of the tests, whether the tests accurately read the genetic code as the firms promise (already regulated under the CLIA) but the clinical validity, whether particular identified alleles are causal for conditions or disease.
Remember, Derek works in the pharmaceutical industry as a scientist.
I’ve become fascinated by the historical origins of Christmas traditions. I think this is an old-guy thing but I’m just going with it.
This article about Krampus was enthralling. Seems like “Krampus on a shelf” would be a better threat than Elf on a Shelf.
I’m also liking Atlas Obscura in general.
There is never a day that I’m not interested in terminal one-liners. Here’s a basic collection for today.
I think it’s by way of Dr. Bunsen
Bite Sized Python is a really good resource for keeping up with all things Python.
There’s a beginners section and a news section too. Very nice.
Holy cow this is awesome! Pretty Table is a Python library for creating plain text formatted tables from HTML, CSV, SQL or even row by row insertions.
Take an HTML table with table and td tags:
:::python from prettytable import from_html pts = from_html(html_string) And output it in plain text
:::text +-----------+------+------------+-----------------+ | City name | Area | Population | Annual Rainfall | +-----------+------+------------+-----------------+ | Adelaide | 1295 | 1158259 | 600.
I figured we all need a palate cleanser now and again. ‘Tis the Season.
What a great site. No Wrong Way to Play highlights video game play-throughs with non-standard approaches. For example, playing The Sims as homeless.
By way of Twitter and Superpunch
This is a pretty cool Raspberry Pi project.
From the VillageScience info page:
It’s inexpensive. Fully assembled, we’re aiming for a cost of about US$65 per unit;
It’s efficient. Our device needs very little electricity to operate and can run on solar power, a battery, or even a water wheel in a stream;
It’s useful. VS-Pi comes “pre-loaded” with culturally-relevant, local language content from a variety of partners: educational texts, health videos, agricultural information, financial literacy training – all tailored to each community’s needs.
