Six Years of Deep in the Code

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In looking through my older posts, I realized that I wrote my first post, Guide for the Perplexed, six years ago yesterday. I don’t have as much time to write as much as did during the first couple of years of this blog; I generally write two posts per month now. Even so, I hope … Read more

Sending an Email with Attachments using Python – Checks for Attachments Before Sending

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This is an update to a script I put together several years ago which needed some minor changes to prevent the email from being sent if there were no attachments. Also, there was a bug that would send the email whether attachments were present or not due to the presence of the archive folder in … Read more

Accessing the Google Foobar Challenges on Chrome

Google Foobar challenge prompt

Last night I was Googling Python lambda functions and a strange thing happened. The Google search results window broke open near the top and a single line of white text appeared on a black background asking if I wanted to take a test, next to a link to google.com/foobar. After clicking on the link, I … Read more