web scrapping

 I really need to learn to web scrape today.

Goodbye Russia

 As the iron curtain is falling I have to say goodbye to to some YouTubers that I recently met.  Eli, Inside Russia and others too numerous to lookup in my history.  I started watching Bold and Bankrupt about a year ago then saw him collaborating with Johnny FD and got interested in some places I had never considered visiting before like Moldova and Transnistria.  Anyhow Johnny bought an apartment in Kyiv, moved in right before Putin invaded Ukraine then I started looking at the other side, except that the ones who YouTube in English are probably on Ukraine's side.

Python dev

I am finally working in Python again, although it is the wrong tool for the job at hand right now at work, but never mind that we have limited access and it is the right tool for working around the artificial barriers that they placed on us.

I got very productive with debugging python3 by having a free IDE that has powerful plugins.  I think that vim is pretty good and VScode is for me as it can also do vim commands.  It is worth setting up the interactive debugging before you get too deep in code and can't spare the time.  I personally like VScode, however I have seem people productive on PyCharm and Sublime (which I used for about 2 months and abandoned for Atom)

I send people to VScode these days as it seems to have the most mindshare and frequent updates.