Ahh the joys of WinBlows11 – doing everything the Microsoft way (and sharing to the world whether you like it or not!). For a while this year I was devving new apps on Win11, mostly because it was easy to compile small, neat, portable exes with Nuitka, and my primary
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The Final Migration Begins
The love – hate relationship continues with WindBlows11. Background: I like to compile my python apps, lets me add an image to the titlebar and an app icon – the little things that make the apps look just that bit more pro. The problem with WindBlows11 is that it likes
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5 Day Weather
So a while back I built a 5 day temperature trend app using the OpenWeatherMap data. All good that one, but I got to wondering what else I could pull from OpenWeatherMap as far as a trend goes… 5 Day Weather is a bit more upscale than the TempT app.
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PYxel Perfect
I promised myself I would take a break from coding, or at least give my eyeballs a rest for the next few days (big couple of weeks coming up at work!). Before I break though, have been meaning to finish up the last ‘crafty’ app – PYxel. PYxel is a
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C’est Ma Vie!
So the journal idea just kept sticking in my head (common for OCD people) and it sort of bugged me that PYng / Apercu were your basic tkinter apps vs. ttkbootstrap like the rest soo… back to the drawing board. I wanted to keep the journal aspects of PYng but
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Simple Insight on a Tuesday
If you know me IRL, you know I have this thing about ‘KISS’. I hate fussy, frilly and generally annoying things. Truth be known (am I being sexist? – I hope not!) if given the ‘choice’ between a runway model all made up in a $5000 Versace original and a