favourites

Favorites are personal preferences that reflect an individual’s tastes, interests, and inclinations. They can encompass a wide range of categories, including favorite foods, music, movies, books, and even programming languages. Understanding favorites can provide insights into a person’s personality and lifestyle choices. In various contexts, such as social interactions or marketing, knowing someone’s favorites can enhance communication and engagement. Additionally, favorites can evolve over time, influenced by experiences, cultural shifts, and exposure to new ideas. Exploring favorites can lead to deeper connections and a better understanding of oneself and others.

Favorite apps on my Mac

R-bloggers

Will do a separate post on command line setup and tools. VSCode is in the list and I’ll do a separate post on the extensions I have installed. For each application, I have indicated the price with one...

10 Of My Favorite Python Decorators

Towards Data Science

If there is one thing that really fascinates me in computing, it is programming languages. Programming languages are interesting to me because of what they actually are, merely just an abstraction…

Using preferences

Essential Java

Preferences can be used to store user settings that reflect a user’s personal application settings, e.g. their editor font, whether they prefer the application to be started in full-screen mode, wheth...

Decorators

Codecademy

Decorators are a structural design pattern which wrap the original object, to add extra functionality dynamically, without modifying the original object. Decorators are usually used to run code before...

5 Spectacular Features From Julia I Wish Were In Python

Towards Data Science

Anytime a programmer uses multiple languages, they start to see the advantages and trade-offs that certain languages have against others. One of my favorite programming languages to write in is the…

The One with all the FRIENDS Analysis

Towards Data Science

FRIENDS is one of my favourite shows (probably the favourite) and I’m sure I’m not alone in having rewatched the entire series more than once. I’ve always wondered if there was anything left to know…

Make your Own Book and Movie Recommender System using Surprise

Towards Data Science

I spent my Ph.D. years building recommender systems and benchmarking them all from scratch and it is only when I finished it that I heard about the sikit library Surprise. It was a Surprise that I…

Importing preferences

Essential Java

Preferences nodes can be imported from a XML document. Importing is meant to be used in conjunction with the exporting functionality of Preferences , since it creates the correct corresponding XML doc...

Showcasing a featured items gallery

Software Architecture with C plus plus

Enough with the toy examples, though. Remember our Dominican Fair application from Chapter 3 , Functional and Nonfunctional Requirements ? Let's write a component that will select and display a few fe...

View Decorators

Flask User's Guide

View Decorators Python has a really interesting feature called function decorators. This allows some really neat things for web applications. Because each view in Flask is a function, decorators can b...

Simplifying Preferences DataStore: Introducing Preferences-ktx

Level Up Coding

Android Jetpack Datastore In this post, we will explore Preferences — a wrapper around the android preference datastore that simplifies its use in your projects. We will cover how to create it, read a...