https://martinbreuss.com/tags/writing/Recent content in Writing on Martin BreussHugoen-usSat, 08 Sep 2018 18:50:16 +0000https://martinbreuss.com/blog/medium-all-you-need-for-working-with-python-3-on-a-mac/Sat, 08 Sep 2018 18:50:16 +0000https://martinbreuss.com/blog/medium-all-you-need-for-working-with-python-3-on-a-mac/<p>To clear up any confusion about a functioning setup to start working with Python 3 on a fresh Mac — here’s a quick (minimal) guide. DO #1: download and install Python 3.x.x Go to the official website and download Python…</p> <p>Read the full post on <a href="https://medium.com/@martin.breuss/all-you-need-for-working-with-python-3-on-a-mac-c811ac094869">Medium</a>.</p>https://martinbreuss.com/blog/medium-django-webdev-keeping-secrets-with-environment-variables/Mon, 04 Jun 2018 11:59:48 +0000https://martinbreuss.com/blog/medium-django-webdev-keeping-secrets-with-environment-variables/<p>When working in Web Development with e.g. APIs of other services, you will often need to include Authentication to access those services. These can come in the form of e.g. passwords, API keys or secrets. We ❤ Version…</p> <p>Read the full post on <a href="https://medium.com/@martin.breuss/django-webdev-keeping-secrets-with-environment-variables-78def8813cf2">Medium</a>.</p>https://martinbreuss.com/blog/medium-virtual-environments-for-python/Thu, 31 May 2018 11:33:09 +0000https://martinbreuss.com/blog/medium-virtual-environments-for-python/<p>With a bustling activity as a developer, when grinding projects feels like a morning jog, it is easy for something to go out of hand: dependencies . What are dependencies? When building python projects and with the rich…</p> <p>Read the full post on <a href="https://medium.com/@martin.breuss/virtual-environments-for-python-cc8f18a48c6c">Medium</a>.</p>https://martinbreuss.com/blog/medium-remembering-the-forgetting-curve/Mon, 21 May 2018 11:27:57 +0000https://martinbreuss.com/blog/medium-remembering-the-forgetting-curve/<p>🔔 — Ebbinghaus wants to send you push notifications — 🔔 Everyone knows this existential angst when realizing that {xyz}, which we learned only {xyz} time units ago, is already blanked off our mind. How do some people…</p> <p>Read the full post on <a href="https://medium.com/@martin.breuss/remembering-the-forgetting-curve-d88ad082502e">Medium</a>.</p>https://martinbreuss.com/blog/medium-customising-sublime-text-for-python-web-development/Sat, 12 May 2018 13:45:31 +0000https://martinbreuss.com/blog/medium-customising-sublime-text-for-python-web-development/<p>Sublime Text’s rich package ecosystem makes it possible to fine-tune the text editor specifically to what you are using it for. Some of the packages are universally helpful, others, such as syntax checking, are specific…</p> <p>Read the full post on <a href="https://medium.com/@martin.breuss/customizing-sublime-text-for-python-web-development-de31873d2d06">Medium</a>.</p>https://martinbreuss.com/blog/medium-finding-a-useful-dictionary-api/Thu, 09 Feb 2017 03:00:14 +0000https://martinbreuss.com/blog/medium-finding-a-useful-dictionary-api/<p>I thought that would be easy, but they are difficult to spot For the past days, I have been searching for Dictionary APIs that would provide definitions for a few different languages. With this text, I hope to make the…</p> <p>Read the full post on <a href="https://medium.com/@martin.breuss/finding-a-useful-dictionary-api-52084a01503d">Medium</a>.</p>https://martinbreuss.com/blog/medium-playing-chinese-whispers-with-computers-can-be-great-fun/Wed, 08 Feb 2017 18:43:26 +0000https://martinbreuss.com/blog/medium-playing-chinese-whispers-with-computers-can-be-great-fun/<p>On a page called Translation Party you can enter a sentence and then watch how Machine Translation plays English-Japanese ping-pong . So I gave it a spin: After staggering through the hallway of the retirement home…</p> <p>Read the full post on <a href="https://blog.chatbotslife.com/playing-chinese-whispers-with-computers-can-be-great-fun-2c8072da7b3b">Medium</a>.</p>https://martinbreuss.com/blog/medium-how-i-hear-humans-when-i-seebotschat/Sun, 08 Jan 2017 08:47:32 +0000https://martinbreuss.com/blog/medium-how-i-hear-humans-when-i-seebotschat/<p>What two Cleverbots can tell us about human conversation Someone hooked up two Google Homes powered by Cleverbot’s API and made them ceaselessly talk to each other. Where? On twitch…</p> <p>Read the full post on <a href="https://blog.chatbotslife.com/see-bots-chat-hear-humans-talk-6579b203b763">Medium</a>.</p>https://martinbreuss.com/blog/medium-going-gui/Sat, 07 Jan 2017 13:58:19 +0000https://martinbreuss.com/blog/medium-going-gui/<p>I wrote a tiny search engine (it looks for search terms on pre-defined webpages), and a friend told me that What is this? I can’t show this to anyone. No one who doesn’t program will know what to do with that. Can’t you…</p> <p>Read the full post on <a href="https://medium.com/@martin.breuss/going-gui-48a61d9db91c">Medium</a>.</p>https://martinbreuss.com/blog/medium-7-language-creativity/Fri, 06 Jan 2017 15:03:53 +0000https://martinbreuss.com/blog/medium-7-language-creativity/<p>How we speak; so unique How often do we write the same sentence multiple times? Inspired by Chomsky’s dismissal* of an approach another linguist to assess the probability of sentences to occur, I built a small project…</p> <p>Read the full post on <a href="https://medium.com/@martin.breuss/7-language-creativity-defe56084896">Medium</a>.</p>