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Archive: 2018

EuroPython, PyCon UK and a John Pinner Award

I’ve been lucky enough to have been able to attend (and speak at) two great Python conferences – EuroPython and PyCon UK – (almost) every year since 2014. I’ve been to EuroPython in Berlin, Bilbao and Rimini, and this year it came to the UK – specifically, the beautiful city of Edinburgh. I...

Speedy Python package installation for Raspberry Pi

One of the great things about the Python programming language is PyPI - the Python Package Index, where third-party libraries are hosted, available for anyone to install to gain access to pre-existing functionality without starting from scratch. These libraries are handy utilities written by...

10 Hello World programs for your Raspberry Pi

"Hello world" is the beginning of everything when it comes to computing and programming. It's the first thing you learn in a new programming language, and it's the way you test something out, or check to see if something's working because it's usually the simplest way of testing simple...

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Block ads on your network with Raspberry Pi and pi-hole

Got an old Raspberry Pi lying around? Hate seeing ads while browsing the web? pi-hole is an open-source software project that blocks ads for all devices on your home network by routing all advertising servers into nowhere. What's best is it takes just a few minutes to set up. pi-hole blocks over...

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