With the latest update, you can now connect your Twitter account to Postach.io and automatically tweet any of your posts by simply tagging them with tweet. Support for Facebook, Tumblr, Wordpress and Blogger are coming soon too! Login to Postach.io, ...

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Below is an example of MathJax being embedded in an Postach.io post. MathJax.Hub.Config({tex2jax:{inlineMath:[['$','$'],['\(','\)']]}}); When $a \ne 0$, there are two solutions to (ax^2 + bx + c = 0) and they are $$x = {-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac} \over 2a}.$$ ...

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I found this helpful when trying to purge millions of backed up files. I was helping a friend run a backup server internally for their drafting company and thousands of files were being created a day for drawings. We ran into some bottlenecks when ...

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I've had a couple people ask how they can use the default Postach.io theme with full-post content on the home page (Similar to how Tumblr looks). Below is a Gist of exactly that. You should be able to copy and paste the code into your Postach.io Edit ...

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A quick post on how to embed Gist snippets in Postach.io posts.

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In my experience, PIL can be finicky if you don't have everything just right. I recently encountered the following error while working on QuoteRobot. IOError: decoder jpeg not available Basically this means that the libjpeg library isn't installed. This ...

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I love Evernote. So much that I store everything from my bookmarks using Evernote Clipper, code snippets I regularly use in my programs to my wedding plans and favourite recipes. However, with all that data, you need to ensure you're indexing your ...

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I recently had to force the default encoding for one of our apps, QuoteRobot (Check it out if you write proposals, quotes or invoices). You can check the default encoding by opening the Python terminal and running: import sys sys.getdefaultencoding() My ...

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Titanium is a mobile platform, developed by Appcelerator, that allows developers to create cross-platform applications in Javascript. In earlier versions you were required to develop your apps using their custom IDE (gross). Fortunately, it's now ...

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I don't know if its because I picked up PHP first, but learning to work with dates in Python has been an uphill battle. Something as trivial as converting a string to a date object can seem convoluted if you don't know where to start. I wrote this post ...

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NOTE: This post is no longer relevant. I'm now using Postach.io to run this site. The last couple of days I've been thinking about something I can build as a way learn Flask. I started re-writing my Blog while following a tutorial, but it quickly became ...

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