Someone recently asked me if there’s a way to translate a 2 letter country code (i.e. US) to a country name (i.e. United States), and similarly, if there’s a way to translate a 3 letter country code (i.e. CAN) to a country name (i.e. Canada).

“Did I leave the oven on?”

I’ve recently had to perform some web scraping from a site that required login. It wasn’t very straight forward as I expected so I’ve decided to write a tutorial for it.

If you want to run a faster grep, use the “LC_ALL” flag and set it to “C”.

In case you want to plot geo coordinates on a map:

I’ve recently wanted to play a bit with OpenCV on my OSX machine.

Well, here we are.