Using Faster and Lighter Data Formats — The CSV file format has been commonly used as data storage in many Python projects because of its simplicity. However, it is large and slow! So, if your project becomes more extensive, it might not be a good idea to use CSV any longer. By its nature as a text…

Impress your audiences and Improve Understandability — Sharing your code with beautiful screenshots can impress your audiences and improve understandability. This article curates two VS Code extensions to help you create a beautiful screenshot of your code. …

Using Pure JS | No Library needed — This short article shows a simple way to use pure JS to interact with user local files without the need to transfer the data across the network. This method is available in most chromium web browsers like Google Chrome, MS Edge, etc. Example 1: Read Files & their Metadata The following example uses a simple HTML input…

Always Keep Your Code Up-to-Date — In the Node.js project, dependency packages become outdated very fast and it can be a tedious task to update all of them properly. This article explains multiple methods to update them. You may select what fits your project. Method 1: Update all Node packages with NPM Using npm will update all dependencies, package.json, and package-lock.json by the defined…

A simple method to prevent people from stealing your work. — Nowadays, getting access and extracting JavaScript codes from any website becomes very easy with just a common web browser. …

A step-by-step tutorial: From API to Database — Azure Functions is a serverless cloud service available on-demand that supports major programming runtimes such as Python, Node.js, Java, Powershell Core, etc. It will run your application without a need to maintain the machine/server yourself. In my last chapters, I had introduced the equivalent serverless cloud services to execute Python…

Step-by-Step Tutorial: From API to Database — Using Python script as a tool to extract, transform, load data become common nowadays. To properly automate Python script and run as a “scraper/bot”, we need a way to make them execute automatically at the proper times. …

Case Study: COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports — Google BigQuery has provided public datasets for you to access and integrate into the applications. Most of the time, researchers waste most of their time and resources in data gathering and storing, data cleaning, and data processing. Free Dataset from BigQuery You can get several free datasets such as Google Community Mobility Reports, COVID-19…

4 CPUs | 24 GB of memory 🚀 — If you are looking for a very powerful server without costs, Oracle Cloud would be the right choice for you! In the past few years, I have tried several cloud computing products such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform. Even though they offer free options, their always…