In this article I show you how to monitor Twitter and post alerts to a Slack channel. We built a nice tool to monitor whenever our domain gets mentioned on Twitter. The slacker and twython modules made this pretty easy. We also use configparser and logging.
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How we Automated our 100DaysOfCode Daily Tweet
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4 min readIn this article I show you a way to automatically tweet your #100DaysOfCode Challenge progress. This saves you some extra time to focus on the coding. Isn’t that all what matters?
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How to Build a Simple Slack Bot
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4 min readI was playing with Slack’s Real Time Messaging API the other day. Building a bot is pretty easy. In this article a simple example.
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5 Vim Tricks to Speed up Your Python Development
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5 min readIn this article 5 Vim shortcuts to speed up your Python development.
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Send Advanced Emails with Python MIME Submodules
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3 min readLearn how to send richer emails with Python and the MIME Submodules
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Python’s data model by example
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18 min readAfter last post on OOP a logical follow-up is Python’s data model. We use the great Fluent Python book to code up an example of our own, showing the powerful way you can leverage this data model. You can download the notebook here.
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List of Awesome Python Resources
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2 min readA great list of Python Resources that should keep you busy for a while!
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5 cool things you can do with itertools
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3 min readItertools is a very useful module. In this short post I show some 5 examples how you can use it. Some of this stuff might be useful in next week’s challenge …
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Create a Simple Web Scraper with BeautifulSoup4
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5 min readLearn to create a simple web scraper in Python using BeautifulSoup4
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Copy and Paste with Pyperclip
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3 min readUse the Pyperclip module to copy and paste with the clipboard!