Flashing 8266 with keyboard maestro

Okay, as many of my firends know I’m playing with IoT controllers, Arduino, NodeMcu, etc. and one of the most frequent things to do with 8266 is flashing firmware to enable different languages or install different software. To do that you have to use the terminal and specify each time the port to which is […]

Proxy

Using a Mac behind a proxy is a no issue if you use native applications. Everything changes when you try to use bash scripts or Python code, so I decided to summarize here (as a memo for a ‘future me’) how is possible to use a proxy in different scenarios. Bash If you want to […]

First steps with the ESP8266 micro controller

ESP8266 is a micro controller made by chinese Espressif… It’s based on the famous ESP8266 micro controller and can be used for a variety of task. Even if it’s not powerful, it’s capable enough of running different language interpreters like Node, Python, Basic and even C with Arduino compatibility. I have no previous electronic skills, […]

Playing with Telegram and Python

Telegram is a popular application for instant messaging. Thanks to its new release, it can runs chat bots which can be used to create different services. The concept is simple, you subscribe to a chat with a bot and then you can send command to the bot itself. In this post I’ll show you how […]

Docker and Jupyer for Oracle

In this quick post I will show you how to create a Docker image with Jupyter notebook inside and the required modules to connect to Oracle. If you are new to Docker please check the official site on how to install it, for us installation is out of scope. Getting the image and running a […]

Playing with Oracle and Docker

I’m a software developer and I’m working with Oracle’s PL-SQL for more than 10 years now. Every time I need a development environement I have to setup a virtual machine with Oracle installed: in the past years I moved from a full-manual solution (using Virtual Box + Ubuntu + Oracle manual setup) to an automated […]

Microsoft Universal Foldable Keyboard

Today I got this new keyboard from a local computer store here in Italy (Mediaworld). You can find the page for the product here. I had necessity to write long texts both with my iPad and my Android Phone while on the go, so after a few days of intense online research I found this […]

Text management with Keyboard Maestro

In the new release of Keyboard Maestro (v.7.0) a bunch of new features were added to the already incredible application. One of the most interesting to me is the “Custom HTML Prompt” which let’s you create custom prompts using HTML code and Javascript. So I decided to integrate my Text Management Tool written in Javascript […]

Euro Python 2015

In this post you will find the presentation I used for my talk at Euro Python 2015 plus all the scripts I used as example.

Amazon Prime Day

Ho fatto uno script in Python per raccogliere alcuni rumors sugli articoli in vendita domani nel Amazon Prime day. Puoi trovare l’xlsx qui, con i prezzi prima della promozione. — I made a script in Python to collect some rumors about articles on sale tomorrow on Amazon Prime day. You can find the xlsx resulting […]