What I learned in March 2020

Another Meta Learning Experience

• https GitHub pages. I updated the DNS and tinkered around with the Github settings to enable https. I’m still not sure about what exactly multiple A records achieve but it seems to be working now.. at least on Safari.

Python

Arrow: Better dates & times for Python

Arrow

Arrow is a Python library that offers a sensible and human-friendly approach to creating, manipulating, formatting and converting dates, times and timestamps. It implements and updates the datetime type, plugging gaps in functionality and providing an intelligent module API that supports many common creation scenarios. Simply put, it helps you work with dates and times with fewer imports and a lot less code.

Python Anywhere

• How to upload and download content
• Testing .htaccess This is kind of old school but how do you know if your .htaccess is setup and working? A simple test is adding redirect and see if it works.

To Learn

• How to write a simple slack bot on PythoAnywhere

• Find out how to use a different template on GitHub Pages.