Continuing with my software irritant dispatching theme: today’s irritant - including syntax colored code in blogs, LaTeX, Word, and other documents. This one is a persistent pain in the ass; especially for users of idiosyncratic programming languages. We all have our favorite hacks and workarounds; today I am sharing one of mine: using jupyter to … Continue reading Stupid J Jupyter Tricks
Tag: Jupyter notebook
Better Blogging with Jupyter Notebooks on WordPress.com
When I discovered Jupyter notebooks a few years ago I instantly recognized their potential as a technical blogging tool. Jupyter notebooks support mixtures of text, mathematics, program code, and graphics in a completely interactive environment. It's easy to convert notebook JSON .ipynb files to markdown, $latex \LaTeX$, and HTML so it's not a big leap … Continue reading Better Blogging with Jupyter Notebooks on WordPress.com
Setting SmugMug Print Size Keywords with Jupyter and Python
For the last few weeks, my normal hobbies have been preempted by my obsessive refactoring of an old SmugMug keyword setting program. Many years ago I wrote a small application that helped me maintain meaningful SmugMug keywords. I used this application for years until inevitable software changes broke it. Replacing it with something better has … Continue reading Setting SmugMug Print Size Keywords with Jupyter and Python
Downloading SmugMug Captions with Python and Jupyter
This blog post started out as an experimental rendering of a Jupyter notebook. I wanted to see how difficult it would be to convert a notebook to a WordPress.com blog post. Even though Jupyter exports notebooks in HTML and Markdown they do not display well "out of the box." No doubt one could craft CSS … Continue reading Downloading SmugMug Captions with Python and Jupyter
