I Want To Hack

Eamonn Cottrell•eamonncottrell.com

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Weekly discussion of coding and spreadsheets in real life business applications.

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Episodes

Static Site Generators

♦ Connect! I'd love to say hey; follow me over on Twitter . Want to show the show some quick love? Thank you! You can buy me a coffee here. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts! ♥ This week's episode: Static Site Generators These things are awesome. Super fast load pages with a zillion use-cases. List of Static Site Generators Hugo (which I'm currently using) GitHub Pages for hosting and deploying a simple site at [<username>.github.io] Netlify for auto-deployment from Github or GitLab ...

Oct 20, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 9

Multiple SSH Keys for GitHub

♦ Connect! I'd love to say hey; follow me over on Twitter . Want to show the show some quick love? Thank you! You can buy me a coffee here. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts! ♥ This week's episode: Multiple SSH Keys for GitHub I ran into an issue where I needed to push changes to a repository that was on a second GitHub account I created for a simple website project. I was receiving an error from the terminal in VS Code that I didn't have permission to do that. I had already added the SSH ...

Oct 15, 2020•7 min•Season 1Ep. 8

java.that.hut()

java. that. hut() details Eamonn's discovery of Java scripting behind the scenes of GoogleDoc spreadsheets. Eamonn and Angela take a peek at a large spreadsheet Eamonn constructed for work and disect the functions behind it.

Mar 03, 2013•10 min•Season 1Ep. 7

def random.poltergeist()

Eamonn and Angela fight off a poltergeist while walking listeners through two coin flipping/probability functions in Python.

Dec 16, 2012•14 min•Season 1Ep. 6

Class Behemoth

Be sure to listen on iTunes! So we've been in a discussion sequence centered around object-oriented programming during the last few sections of Python. Among a wealth of items that orbit over my head, we have learned about creating user-defined classes. Here's what wikipedia has to say about classes. This has been excellent, albeit slow, work. Join Angela and I as we (mostly I as she is exhausted today) rant a bit about the problem set I did defining various classes in order to implement a progr...

Dec 03, 2012•17 min•Season 1Ep. 5

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