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Boost Your Typing Speed: Focusing on the Top 200 English Words

I can touch type. But my typing speed is no match for my brain speed. I have tried several typing apps, with little improvement to show. Also, for some reason, almost all of them want me to learn typing pseudo words “Prilor Jioc ceat enels”! I hit a plateau at

How I consume Podcasts and long form videos using Otter

Podcasts 1. Download the MP3 for the Podcast (most provide them on their websites) 2. Save this file in Dropbox (I have it connected to my Otter account), or manually drop it into Otter using their web interface. 3. Otter picks this file up automatically, and begins transcribing it. 4.

Hello Swift - My first iOS app using SwiftUI

It took me some time. Fine, it took me a few years, but I finally got around to creating my first iOS app, using SwiftUI. Created a simple single screen app that displays a random quote on the click of a button. A different quote each time you click that

Hello Django - How to set up your first Django web app

Been meaning to write this post for my future self, who’s invariably going to forget the steps to set up Django on a new machine. So, here are the steps to set up Django on a Mac. Django what? Django is a fully featured Python web framework that can

How to make HTTP Requests to an external API from an Alexa Skill using Python

As a developer, every day we interact with remote APIs and web servers. Almost all services we consume on the internet today are available in the form of an API: weather forecasts, geolocation services, Twitter feeds, and so on. It’s only fair to imagine, that you may run into

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