Posts filed under “Chris”
The Importance of Morning Routine (Morning Routine 2.0)
Note: This is very much a work in progress. Comments welcome! So you’ve decided to strike out on your own, by freelancing or start a company. The first day you get up, you realize you’re free. No office, no working hours, no one staring over your shoulder, no constant pressure to have your butt in [...]
If I don’t do it, won’t someone else do it eventually?
Note: This is very much a work in progress. Comments welcome! Ever hear the phrase “write your congressman?” Those sorts of actions I like to call “participating in the tide.” Combined, perhaps the millions of people who write with you will together make a difference, but not you specifically. I would argue that, even for [...]
Taking too long to deal with emails? Separate writing and sending.
Has this ever happened to you? You’re looking through your inbox, and you see one of those messages. You know, those messages where you know you need to respond, but you can’t just dash off a quick email – you’ll need to sit down and think about it. Or you want to be extra sure [...]
Travelling down a stack of dependency woes – How to parse HTML in Windows with Python
I was hoping I could parse HTML in Python in Windows. As it turned out, every step I tried ended up leading to another step. In case you are about to lose an entire day dealing with all these steps, I wrote them here. Problem 1: Beautiful Soup isn’t supported anymore Beautiful Soup is the [...]