Ben's notes

A personal blog

topics: tech (especially obscure problems), bio hacking, product design
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Relative imports in python

 Extremely convoluted and a perfect trap for the beginner or otherwise
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Clear overview of git

 No verbiage, no nonsense, not written for SEO. Immediately actionable. Assumes CS knowledge and only some git.
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UML Class Diagrams

 And object orientated programming in general.
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Git Commands (reference)

 Specific git command reference
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Blender ULTRA quickstart

 A quick start to sculpting in blender. Assumes you are an absolute beginner.

Use CSS Variables to style react components on demand

 No css-in-js needed, no libraries, locally scoped. Perfect for creating tree-shakeable component libraries.

The Shambolic State of Typescript Dev in 2023

Lambdas and aws: The clear difference between API and HTTP API

 It is extremely hard to differentiate between these two API gateway types from AWS. The documentation is extremely opaque and convoluted. After doing a lot of detective work, I try to delineate the two services clearly.

Lamdas: Overview, routing and fast local test and deploy

 (Python) An overview of AWS Lambda functions and how to do end to end testing. The function itself uses mangum to glue it to FastAPI.

Windows Console Popup in Python Subprocess

 When running the python subprocess module a windows console will flash / popup.

Pyinstaller Module Not Found Venv

 Or "unable to load metadata", etc

More Python Vscode QoL

 How to make sure the venv opens in the terminal on startup automatically and other tips

Debugging Python in Vscode: The ideal setup

 This is a follow on from the post about imports

Moving Blog to Hugo

Explanation of execute_async_script in selenium - Non spam post

 The selenium docs are absolutely terrible. And especially on this method on its WebDriver implementation. What is WebDrive? I'll explain it in one sentence.

Disabling windows search bar AKA microsoft edge seach bar

 The program launches on start up whether you disable start up or not. Two methods for disabling it

Running WireGuard GUI on windows with a non-admin account

 Unlike other solutions, this does not require unsafe adding to the admin group or running an admin account

Habits

 Discussion of the paper 'Psychology of habit'

Blender ULTRA quickstart - Part 2

 Retopology, texture baking, etc. This information is useful for creating models for games.

Various opaque errors encountered when working in Visual Studio using the dotnet framework

 I encoutered this errror when testing a .NET 6 app in VSCode and found a solution

Treat Time-Release Locker

 A locker that stores a number of treats released after a timer you set goes off

Boxing vs unboxing & stack vs heap in csharp

 Conversion from a 'reference type' to a value type and vice versa and what happens on a lower level with memory

The first post

 My initial post to this blog