When the pandemic hit several years ago one of the projects I took on was to build a new PC. Honestly, it was my first time doing so and with a few hiccups it went great. For my mother board I chose an Aorus B450 Pro Wifi. The issue? Their…

TL,DR — Go to then Bonus section at the end. Copy and run the script. Done. :-) You will still need to download and install VS Code though. I tend to make a bit of a mess of my environments so a few years back I adopted creating virtual machines…

Getting Started — Sign Up — Chicago Data Portal has a lot of great, publicly available data sets for anyone to use. While you can simply go to the website and download these, there is a more precise way to do so which can be especially useful when creating a data pipeline. Let’s jump right in. …

I have taken several courses over the years which have in some way used docker-desktop. Being a Linux Mint user I felt left out as it was only available for Windows and Mac. Finally the day has come that it is available! Since I am on Linux Mint and on…

As you progress in programming and technology in general at some point you’ll most likely feel comfortable ditching the GUI for an OS. This is intended to a super quick walkthrough for how to setup ssh to another Linux machine. While this tutorial uses a Raspberry Pi on a home…

This is a quick LFG (Let’s….uh, “freaking” GO) :-) article on setting up Docker on Linux Mint. …

This solution was created by GitHub user JustAnotherArchivest in the issue https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv/issues/945 on GitHub. Lately I’ve been using pyenv which is AWESOME! However, when I went to install an older version of Python (2.7.9) I received the error below. Which is not awesome. Luckily it didn’t take too much Googling…

A few months ago I decided to jump in and start learning Spark. After hearing words like Hadoop, Kafka, Yarn, Hive etc. I decided to find out what all the buzz was about. As usual with jumping into a new technology I ran into quite a few hiccups. The best…

If you’re reading this you probably have a specific use case in mind. However, if you just stumbled upon this and are wondering why you would want to set up a database on a Raspberry Pi, I’d say “why the heck not!” …