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django

Displaying a network chart graph diagram on a Django site

There is often a case for improving the understanding of things with visualisations. Python provides a number of libraries to create great visualisations – however they often focus on a data science approach – scripts and jupyter notebooks. What we want is the visualisations to be easily accessible through a django website. That is what […]

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bitcoin

Installing and Running a Full Node with Bitcoin Core Daemon on Ubuntu 20.04

In this guide I will be showing the steps I used to get a bitcion full node running. It is based mainly on the bitcoin core full node guide however I also used some info from the Mastering Bitcoin book Prerequisites In order to run a full node your computer needs to meet certain performance […]

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python

Using FuzzyFuzzy to Match similar strings and Making Tweaks to Improve it

I have been scraping betting odds from a few websites in my spare time to decrease the time manually checking the odds on the different sites. I’ve been using Fuzzywuzzy Example I scrape an event name from a specific site: name = Feyenoord Rotterdam – Wolfsberger AC Now I want to match it with an […]

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money

The case for Bitcoin: A summary of Important Bitcoin Articles

The Case for Bitcoin A few good articles on bitcoin and some good podcasts at the end. Executive Order 6102 by Heavily Armed Clown (@heavilyarmedc) The significance of Executive Order 6102 was not just that individuals could no longer own gold, but more specifically, that they could no longer redeem bank notes for gold. This […]

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Kong

Using Kong and Lua to change occurances of a url in the response body

Using the response transformer advanced plugin for kong, it looks like it is possible to replace urls in the body of an api. The use case: you have an api that you have set to return hypermedia links as absolute urls to other resources. The problem is that you have given the other party access […]