Eduardo Zepeda's latests posts
Destructuring variables in javascript
- javascript
For those like me, whose first language was not fortunate (or unfortunate) enough to be javascript, destructuring can take on esoteric overtones. In this post I will try to explain in a simple way the destructuring of objects in javascript. Destructuring is a process that, contra...
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The best book for learning modern JavaScript
- javascript
- opinions
There are many good books to learn Javascript however the book Eloquent Javascript really made me understand modern Javascript. If you plan to dedicate some hours to acquire knowledge of this language, don’t waste your time looking for more, you will hardly find a book that...
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The 4chan about technology and programming
- opinions
Many people who spend much of their day in contact with the Internet, whether for pleasure or for work, have eventually ended up on an image board, usually the most popular one among English speakers: 4chan.
4 chan has a technology section, called /g/, where there are usually...
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How to find a previously executed command in GNU Linux?
- linux and devops
Sometimes we execute commands that solve a specific task on our system. We may have done a file lookup using regular expressions or perhaps we accessed a server via ssh and no longer remember the IP address. Re-creating the regular expression from scratch can be very time consumi...
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The Big O notation
- linux and devops
- algorithms
I love astrophysics and try to keep up with new discoveries as they happen; whether they are trivial things, like the discovery of a new planet; or significant, like the hypothetical Dyson spheres they swear they find every month. But this time the discovery was simply outstandin...
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Learn Python from scratch with this free book
- python
Most of the content on the Internet about the Python programming language is in English; this is nothing new, just take a walk through your favorite bookstore and ask for books available in both languages. The material on Python in English, besides being abundant, is also quite g...
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Python virtualenv linux basic tutorial
- python
If you have no idea what a virtual environment is for, I have a post where I explain what virtual environments in Python are for. Today I’m here to bring you a little Python virtualenv tutorial where we’ll install a couple of packages in a virtual environment and see ...
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Why should you use a virtual environment in python?
- python
Python virtual environments are a tool that is used in every project. They are so important that they are part of the Python standard library, but what do they do? Let me tell you what a Python virtual environment is for with a fairly simple example.
Imagine you are developin...
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Learn python from scratch Beginning Python Review
- python
Beginning Python: From Novice To Professional was one of the first Python books I read. I chose this book because with it you could learn Python from scratch. The book starts from the installation of the language, going through the different types of data structures that Python i...
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To program a blog or to use wordpress?
- opinions
The other day a person asked me why I use Wordpress for my blog if I could develop a website by myself. In the post where I explain how I learned to program I even talked briefly about my lousy experience with PHP. So why did I choose Wordpress instead of developing my own blog f...
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