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Dear Recruiters: 3 Ways Your Software Engineer Candidate Can Work For You

Software Engineering is a competitive field and subject to aggressive recruiting. I have heard both engineers and recruiters express…

6 min readFeb 5, 2024

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Dear Recruiters: 3 Ways Your Software Engineer Candidate Can Work For You

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Using Bash to Concatenate Strings

Bash scripting makes concatenating strings simple and fun. All the normal Bash features are available and more complex approaches can be…

7 min readSep 26, 2022

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Using Bash to Concatenate Strings

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Remember to Import Your Datetime!

The datetime module is a powerful part of the Python standard library. However, some repetitive naming decisions make a simple syntactic…

3 min readJul 15, 2022

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Remember to Import Your Datetime!

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Saving & Loading CSV Files with Pandas DataFrames

Pandas DataFrames provide convenient methods for manipulating data with ease. The row-column format of the DataFrame is native to CSV files…

7 min readJul 13, 2022

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picture of loading a csv file as a DataFrame object by alpharithms

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Fix: React Scripts Command not Found Error

React’s powerful state management has become wildly popular as a backbone for dynamic user experiences in web applications. Here are a few…

5 min readJul 11, 2022

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react scripts command not found error

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Using Arithmetic Operators on Python Strings

Python lets developers use high-level syntax to perform robust string operations via arithmetic operators. There are some restrictions as…

8 min readJul 7, 2022

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python arithmetic string operations by Alpharithms

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Swapping Dictionary Values in Python

Swapping dictionary values in Python uses the age-old swap logic found in the course materials of many a computer science course. However…

6 min readJul 6, 2022

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swap dictionary values in python

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Tabulate JSON Data in Python Using Pandas

Trying to tabulate JSON into a human-friendly format? Is your JSON data nested? In any case, the Pandas library can make short work of…

5 min readJul 4, 2022

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1000/*: Framerate Conversion for Optimal Perception

Curious about all the random 1000/60 snippets in the code you inherited? These are common translations from CPU and CPU millisecond time to…

4 min readJul 1, 2022

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1000/60 Frame Rate Conversions for Programmers

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Tabs vs. Spaces: The Programmer’s Holy War

The debate of tabs vs. spaces has raged on among software engineers for decades. It’s the closest thing the software industry has to a holy…

7 min readJun 29, 2022

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Tabs vs. spaces illustration

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Zack West

Zack West

Entrepreneur, programmer, designer, and lifelong learner. Can be found taking notes from Mother Nature when not hammering away at the keyboard.

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