How Python Made One Off Scripts Even Better

I often finding myself writing one-off scripts to automate various parts of my day-to-day. You can see a few of them that have survived numerous refactors of my toolbox repo here. Python is my scripting language of choice, and until recently, I’d often find myself writing bash, to ensure that the script is portable, and easy to run. Introducing PEP 723, a new feature that describes how meta-data can be written inside a Python script....

May 3, 2026 · 2 min · Greg Hilston

Easily Converting Audio or Video Files To Text Transcripts

How to convert video or audio files into text transcriptions from the command line or Python.

October 29, 2022 · 2 min · Greg Hilston

Multiple Git Remotes

How to use multiple Git remotes and when you might want to.

January 19, 2022 · 3 min · Greg Hilston

DIY Wedding Website

How to make your own wedding website, on a budget!

October 29, 2021 · 7 min · Greg Hilston

Tmux

I discuss some simple usages of the program Tmux, which I believe is the greatest productivity hack a Software Engineer or Data Scientist can learn

October 20, 2021 · 6 min · Greg Hilston

Python Debugging

How to debug Python programs, the smart way!

September 15, 2021 · 2 min · Greg Hilston

How To Right Click To Paste In Vim

A simple fix for right clicking to paste in Vim

May 11, 2021 · 1 min · Greg Hilston

Restoring Data From Wanna Cry Worm

Wrote a few quick scripts to help restore a family member’s NAS’ data that got hit by the Wanna Cry worm.

November 15, 2020 · 0 min · Greg Hilston