Nikola

Software dev with almost 10 years of work experience, love python, django, smart home, automations, IoT stuff. Currently working full time on IaaS platform. Hobby photographer, and guitar player.

2020

Buying a first 3D printer, Prusa or Ender?

Buying a first printer? How does the Prusa mk3s compare to ender 3, and is prusa better choice despite costing more?

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PyQt: Threading Basics Tutorial

I've written about Getting started with PyQt in one of my previous blog posts, and the post covers the basics of getting Qt Designer and PyQt in general up and running - check it out if you haven't already. However an important thing missing from that post is threading and

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PyQt: Getting started with PyQt and Qt Designer

This tutorial is aimed at beginners just starting out with PyQt/PySide and Qt Designer, it will cover very basic usage of PyQt in combination with Qt Designer. The tutorial will guide you, step by step, towards creating a very simple app that lists all files in the selected directory.

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Running python scripts on a VPS

Description In this tutorial I'll go over how to setup a VPS instance (aka droplet) on DigitalOcean, transfer your code to it using git and FileZilla, and have the code run either all the time, and link to resources that explain how to run it periodically using cron. Links in