Migrating blog to Hugo

In 2013, I decided to start a blog. Static site generators was growing in popularity at that time and I wanted to use one that

• was implemented in Python
• use reStructuredText as the primary markup language
• maybe built on top of Sphinx

My options at that time were, in alphabetic order,

• Nikola
• Pelican
• Tinkerer

I decided to use Tinkerer and, soon, the first version of my blog was online.

In 2015, Software Carpentry decided to migrate from Pandoc to Jekyll and I end up using Jekyll more. After some time using Jekyll due my contribution to Software Carpentry, I migrated my blog to Jekyll in 2016 and adopted the Millennial theme by Paul Le.

Spreadsheets: Headers

During my undergraduate, I barely used any spreadsheet software. One of my friends told me that spreadsheet software helped to turn the personal computer popular and Wikipedia can confirm it:

VisiCalc was the first electronic spreadsheet on a microcomputer,[9] and it helped turn the Apple II computer into a popular and widely used system.

Why I didn’t used spreadsheet? That’s a good question. Probably because I was more interested in learn Python. In the last two years, I spent a lot of time with spreadsheet software in front of me and I collected a long list of things that I hated in Microsoft Office Excel, LibreOffice Calc and Google Sheet. This is the first post of a serie covering my list.

National Coding Week: Full Stack of Pancakes

My friend Niall Beard recommended me to Sophie Ashcroft as a Git instructor for the National Coding Week activity that Sophie is organising with other members of Full Stack of Pancakes. After exchanged a few emails, the information that I have to try to plan the lesson was

• 2 hours long
• basic level
• mix of backgrounds
• focus on motivation

It is going to be a challenge and based on some of my previous experience teaching Git, the motivation part is very hard if you work with just one file or with isolated files, i.e. that don’t interact with any other. Over dinner, I was thinking of what game I could implemente in Liquid template language in less than 2 hours that could be interesting for learners to get motivated to learn Git. The solution, at the moment, is a Rock Paper Scissors game. If you look at the Git repository, it only has

R Markdown and Pandoc Template: releasing your super powers

This is a write version of my presentation at the R user group at the University of Manchester.

Motivation

Meet Alice and Bob.

Alice and Bob are researchers. Sometimes they have awesome ideas.

And sometimes they collaborate in an shared idea.

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Skrooge: Forecast report

I’m trying to better manage my personal finances and for that I spend some time looking at accounting software that offer a good forecasting report. Understand how to get the report from Skrooge wasn’t very easy so I’m going to write how I could get it.

Account

Skrooge support different accounts so you need to create one. Just fill the information on the form and the “Add” button will be enabled.

GUADEC 2017: Ecosystem

Today is the thirday and last day of GUADEC 2017 as a conference. There will be more three day as a unconference.

On the previous two days, I learned how much a integrated ecosystem of software application can make the user experience more pleasured and, for the case of first time users, more friendly. Unfortunately, have the completely ecosystem is hard to implement and keep consistence between the softwares is even more difficult.

GUADEC 2017: Welcome

And today is the first day of GUADEC 2017.

Yesterday, the organisers hosted a great welcome drink full of amazing people.

I will soon leaving for the venue and will not miss

• The GNOME Way by Allan Day,
• Newcomer Genesis Evolution by Carlos Soriano and Bastian Ilsø,
• The Battle Over Our Technology by Karen Sandler and
• Different ways of outreaching newcomers by Julita Inca.

Follow guadec on Twitter.

GUADEC 2017: My Experience with Evolution

In a previous post, I talked about e-mail client that I used. At the current moment, I’m using Evolution, Gnome’s official “personal information management application that provides integrated mail, calendaring and address book functionality”, for more than half-year and there are some things that annoys me very much.

Before I start list all the things that make me unhappy when using Evolution, I need to say that I understand how complex a personal information management.

My E-mail (client) Journey

E-mail can be a very difficult thing to deal with but is the only federated wide-used system out there so we are stuck with it for now. In this post I will review how I try to domesticate that beast.

My first e-mail

I created my first e-mail account in 2004. It was a MSN Hotmail account since at that time everyone was using MSN Hotmail to chat. 2004 was also the year that Google announced Gmail but I wasn’t cool enough to receive a invitation. I didn’t used too much my MSN Hotmail account because at the time I didn’t have internet at home.

Carros 3

Nesse final de semana, eu assisti Carros 3. Para falar a verdade, eu ainda não assisti Carros ou Carros 2.

Carros é a sétima animação da Pixar. Ele foi dirigido pelo legendário John Lasseter e lançado em 2006. O filme original conta a história de Lightning McQueen, um carro de corrida que apenas se importa em ganhar o campeonato e durante o filme faz vários amigos.

Spoilers

Pare de ler por aqui caso você não queira receber spoilers!

EuroPython 2017 - Lightning talk

I decided to present a lightning talk today at EuroPython 2017. The slides of my presentation are available [here]({{ site.url }}/slides/2017-07-11-europython-rse.pdf).

EuroPython 2017

I’m at EuroPython 2017 this week. If you are in Rimini, we should meet.

Every (and Another) Day

I know that I failed to write more on this blog. I still need to write about “The Hidden School” but today I will write a little about “Every Day” and “Another Day”, two books by David Levithan.

Both books are about the romance between A and Rhiannon. The first book, Every Day, follows A and the second book, Another Day, follows Rhiannon. What make the romance between the two hard is that every day A wake up in a different body.

Online Form Review: Google Form

Today we are going to review Google Forms. To use it you need a Google account which you already have if you already signed to any other of Google’s product.

Possibility to download the answers

You can download the responses as a .csv or create a Google Spreadsheet with the responses that you can download later in many formats.

Email notification

You can receive email after people complete the form. If you want to email responders you need to use Google Script or a third-party app.

Online Form Review

Some times we need to send a form to gather data. Provide a user friend form is very important and I’m unhappy with some of the tools that I’m using in the past months.

In the next few posts I will look at some of the online form tools available and try to discovery if the have the features that I want.

List of desired features

1. Possibility to download the answers

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The Hidden School

One of the books that I enjoyed reading was “The Way of the Peaceful Warrior” by Dan Millman. I read the book many years after I watched the “Peaceful Warrior”, a film adaption of Dan’s book.

Today is the release of the newest of Dan’s books, “The Hidden School”, and that is the book that I will be reading in the next few weeks.

Reboot

Some times things break or stop working to push you to do something that was on your to-do list for a long time. I had some problems with the virtual private server (VPS) that hosted my web site last month and because of it I had to configure a new VPS. Taking the opportunity I decided to update the theme that I used on my web site. I hope that you like the new one.