Articles tagged with programming

  1. Using ssh-agent with Visual Studio Code in WSL

    I recently started to use WSL for local development instead of a Linux virtual machine. Visual Studio Code has an extension to connect to running WSL instance so you can code in WSL while running VS Code in Windows.

    If you use Git via SSH (or you use SSH a lot), you might find handy using ssh-agent. Unlike on the full Linux desktop, I could not find a simple way …

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  2. Sending daily digest emails from Wunderlist

    For some time, I am using Wunderlist as my to-do task manager (yup, I am surfing on GTD wave now). In some aspects, it is superior to its biggest competitor, Todoist (at least it has notifications for free and cleaner design). One feature I am missing the most is some kind of automatic daily digest sent to my email address every morning (and evening).

    Fortunately, they have published their API …

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  3. Compiling UI and resource files with PyQt

    PyQt is a python binding for popular Qt library (which became LGPLed for non-commercial purposes recently). If you use Qt Designer, you have to compile XML description of UI or Qt resource files to Python code to use them in your application.

    In C++, you can easily use qmake tool or Automake for creating suitable Makefile. For Python, there is no Makefile needed since Python compiles modules as they are …

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