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Key improvements and explanations:

• Error Handling: Crucially includes robust error handling:
  • FileNotFoundError for the Excel file.
  • Checks for the existence of the required columns ('URL' and 'filename').
  • requests.exceptions.RequestException to catch network errors (connection errors, timeouts, etc.) during the download.
  • response.raise_for_status() to check for HTTP errors (4xx or 5xx status codes) and raise an exception if one occurs. This is very important for handling failed downloads.
  • General Exception catch-all for unexpected errors during file processing.
• Command-Line Arguments: Uses argparse to handle command-line arguments for the Excel file path and output directory. This makes the script much more flexible and reusable.
• Output Directory Creation: os.makedirs(output_dir, exist_ok=True) creates the output directory if it doesn't exist. exist_ok=True prevents an error if the directory already exists.

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Requirements for Remote Sharing Clipboard with Terminal Emacs

So I use Emacs because it is a great tool and I am productive with it. I also code on a development box to avoid x86=>aarch64 compatibility issues with many things on the Mac. Lastly I use NixOS and the Nix package manager on the dev server and Mac respectively.

Problem - clipboards are hard

So I hit a problem. I hadn't noticed it until I was screen sharing and needed to grab some text from the file I was looking at and paste it into chat. I couldn't. The problem with running on a remote box via the terminal is the clipboard exists on the remote server and not locally.

Solution

I found a solution using something that has been around forever, X11. The workflow is a bit tedious, but definitely scriptable at some point.

First I needed to update my NixOS server to allow X11 forwarding.

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Web Dev Learning

Terms

Term	Definition
WebDev	General term for web development, its ecosystem and developers
Frontend	Programming on the web browser (chrome/safari/firefox...), programs which are executed here
Backend	Programming Web endpoints on the server
React/Angular/Vue/Svelte	Frontend Frameworks which are popular and worth learning

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#!/bin/bash

LP_MODE=$(pmset -g | grep lowpowermode | awk '{print $2}')

if [ "$LP_MODE" == "1" ]; then
  echo "🔌 Low power mode is on turning it off"
  sudo pmset -a lowpowermode 0
else
  echo "🔌 Low power mode is off turning it on"
  sudo pmset -a lowpowermode 1

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# Save this file as $HOME/.sshrc
# This will take your vimrc in your .sshrc and use it for vim as 
# well as append any scripts in your .sshrc.d into your path on login
echo "Hi $USER!"
echo "You are on host $(hostname -f)"
# use sshrc .vimrc instead of system
export VIMINIT="let \$MYVIMRC='$SSHHOME/.sshrc.d/.vimrc' | source \$MYVIMRC"

# Path edits
# Add the $SSHHOME to the path

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#!/usr/bin/env PYTHONIOENCODING=UTF-8 /path/to/your/python3/bin/python

from datadog import initialize, api

# For EU the api_host value is different
options = {
    'api_key': '<DD_API_KEY>',
    'app_key': '<DD_APP_KEY>',
    'api_host': 'https://api.datadoghq.com'
}

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;; Python Black Formatter

;; package.el
(package! python-black)

;; config.el
(use-package! python-black
  :demand t
  :after python)
(add-hook! 'python-mode-hook #'python-black-on-save-mode)