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1202                            <h2>How to Plot Mathematical Functions in 10 Lines of Python</h2>
1203                            <p>How to build a mathematical functions plotter using Python, NumPy, SymPy, and Matplotlib.</p>
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1223                            <h2>Starting and Running Your First Program on a Mainframe</h2>
1224                            <p>How to run your first program on a mainframe using open source software. </p>
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1244                            <h2>All Systems are Human Systems</h2>
1245                            <p>All systems in the field of software engineering are built by humans, to serve human purposes, and sometimes have broad but subtle influences in society and politics. It&#39;s in all of our best interests to to understand the broader, human scope that these systems operate within.</p>
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1265                            <h2>Python Packaging Guide for APT/Debian</h2>
1266                            <p>A quick guide on how to package your Python/pip project into an apt-installable Debian package using stdeb.</p>
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1286                            <h2>Learning COBOL: A Journey For The Modern Programmer</h2>
1287                            <p>A guide to learning COBOL for the modern programmer. </p>
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1307                            <h2>Some Unofficial WireGuard Documentation</h2>
1308                            <p>Some unofficial documentation for the WireGuard VPN, including config API reference, tutorials, examples, and projects. (This is a mirror of the original on Github)</p>
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1328                            <h2>Cinco Paquetes de Django Que Amamos en Monadical</h2>
1329                            <p>Uno de los mayores atractivos de Django es su ecosistema. Si se presenta algún problema existen muchas posibilidades de que alguien en la comunidad también lo haya tenido, y fuera tan amable de abstraerlo en un paquete reutilizable y publicarlo para la comunidad. Aquí encontrará cinco paquetes muy útiles que usamos con</p>
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1349                            <h2>Five Django Packages We Love at Monadical</h2>
1350                            <p>One of the biggest draws to Django is its ecosystem. If you encounter a problem, the chances are that someone else in the community has too, and has been kind enough to abstract it into a package and release it. Here are five packages we find ourselves coming back to.</p>
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1370                            <h2>Drone Web Platform </h2>
1371                            <p>A platform for operating drones through the internet.</p>
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1391                            <h2>Implementing C++ Virtual Functions in Cython</h2>
1392                            <p>This is an extensive article that assumes Cython knowledge and describes two strategies for using C++ code from Python, requiring the implementation of virtual functions in C++ abstract classes. </p>
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1412                            <h2>How to Make Library Distribution Easier</h2>
1413                            <p>A Manylinux-Based Web Building Platform</p>
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1433                            <h2>How to Build a Python Library</h2>
1434                            <p>Share Developments and Contribute to the Community</p>
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1454                            <h2>
1454Oddslingers Open Source Announcement</h2>
1455                            <p>The OddSlingers poker platform, built with python/django in the backend, and react/redux in the frontend, is now free and open source.</p>
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1475                            <h2>Event Diven Architecture part 1</h2>
1476                            <p>Lessons learned in building a poker platform using event-driven architecture, part one--the backend.</p>
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1496                            <h2>How to Set Up a CI/CD Workflow, Part 3</h2>
1497                            <p>CI/CD Workflow For a Flask App Using GitHub Actions and AWS ECS</p>
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1517                            <h2>Why should you use an ORM (Object Relational Mapper)?</h2>
1518                            <p>Budding web developers learning Model-View-Controller frameworks are taught that they should use an Object Relational Mapper (ORM) to interface with their databases. But the “why” is often brushed aside or omitted entirely, leaving a fledgling programmer with burning questions like ”What are ORMs, anyway?”</p>
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1538                            <h2>How to Set Up a CI/CD Workflow, Part Two</h2>
1539                            <p>In a previous article, I explained how to set up a pipeline to send images from GitHub to AWS ECR. In this article, I will focus on implementing the missing steps required for a fully functional CD pipeline.</p>
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1559                            <h2>A Cheat Sheet for Using your JWT Authentication with Django </h2>
1560                            <p>Getting DRF, SimpleJWT and Firebase to play nice.</p>
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1580                            <h2>How COVID-19 will affect Outsourcing Trends</h2>
1581                            <p>How the increase in remote work during COVID-19 will affect companies&#39; decisions on whether to outsource.</p>
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1600                        <div class="card-content">
1601                            <h2>How to Migrate from Firebase to Django</h2>
1602                            <p>Strategy and tips on how to migrate from Firebase to Django (or another SQL ORM)</p>
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1622                            <h2>
1622Drone Mapping: How to Create Your Own Terrain Surface Model</h2>
1623                            <p>An introduction to drone mapping. How to create a terrain surface model using a mobile app, your computer or cloud service, and your own drone.</p>
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1643                            <h2>Why Everyone Should Know About Docker</h2>
1644                            <p>What is Docker and how does it work? This introduction walks you through the benefits of this core technology and shows you how to get started with it.</p>
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1664                            <h2>How to set up a CI workflow</h2>
1665                            <p>How to set up a basic CI workflow using GitHub and AWS, relying completely on managed services so you don&#39;t increase your maintenance burden.</p>
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1685                            <h2>Unix System Monitoring and Diagnostic CLI Tools</h2>
1686                            <p>An opinionated list of CLI utilities for monitoring and inspecting Linux/BSD systems.</p>
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1706                            <h2>The Year of the Linux Desktop</h2>
1707                            <p>The year of the Linux desktop has arrived. This is a guide for how to improve the Linux desktop experience.</p>
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1727                            <h2>Why Open Source Projects Are Key to Innovation &amp; Technology</h2>
1728                            <p>Find out how open source projects are essential to innovation and the development of new technology.</p>
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1748                            <h2>How to Fit All Human Knowledge in a Box</h2>
1749                            <p>How we used the power of Cython to help streamline how knowledge c
1749an be packaged and accessed all over the world – even without the internet.</p>
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1769                            <h2>How to Make Remote Work: Part Two, Zulip</h2>
1770                            <p>How I&#39;ve learned to be productive working from home. I&#39;ll write a second guide about how I think about remote work as a manager and the processes Monadical have put into place to make things work for us.</p>
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1791                            <p>How to build asyncronous processes that enable you to work efficiently with a distributed engineering team.</p>
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1812                            <p>How we tracked down and fixed a bug caused by Postfix&#39;s type:table using the new unionmap feature.</p>
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1833                            <p>Modern techniques for performance profiling &amp; optimization of Python applications.</p>
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1853                            <h2>An Introduction to HTML and CSS Anatomy</h2>
1854                            <p>
1854A basic introduction and glossary for people learning HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Intended for people just getting started with frontend development.</p>
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1874                            <h2>Our Favorite Technical Blogs</h2>
1875                            <p>A list of our favorite technical blogs by friends, prominent programmers, and other companies we follow.</p>
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1896                            <p>A list of documentation, resources, and example projects for potential applicants who are thinking about joining Monadical.</p>
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1916                            <h2>Easier Refactoring by Avoiding DRY Patterns</h2>
1917                            <p>A short post about a particularly nice pattern for future refactorers that breaks the Don&#39;t-Repeat-Yourself principle commonly taught to beginners.</p>
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1938                            <p>What should you do if your company gets hacked? What are the things to avoid and what are the procedures to follow? We explore the whole process in this post.</p>
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1959                            <p>As systems get more complex, they trend towards expressing more of their complexity as data. Animations can be defined in data too.</p>
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2001                            <p>Everyone wants their writes strictly ordered, if we can represent a list of write operations as a data structure, that gets easier.</p>
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2022                            <p>A frank discussion about the benefits and pitfalls of the ICO hype, and why Monadical&#39; vision goes far beyond short-term fundraising.</p>
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2042                            <h2>The State of Poker Platforms in 2018</h2>
2043                            <p>An overview of the all the current online Poker networks as of 2018, with pros and cons for each and a summary of features.</p>
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2063                            <h2>Database Integrity Principles for Safe Systems</h2>
2064                            <p>Design strategies and common pitfalls that come into play when designing a banking service to handle concurrent transactions in a distributed environment.</p>
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2084                            <h2>The Myth of Trustlessness</h2>
2085                            <p>The word “trustless” implies that trust has been removed from the system altogether. But in reality, systems like Bitcoin require plenty of trust, it&#39;s just less obvious.</p>
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2105                            <h2>The Full-Stack Developer Checklist</h2>
2106                            <p>A checklist of things for full-stack developers to strive to learn, spanning everything front frontend, to backend, to native development and devops.</p>
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2126                            <h2>The Redux Store as the Frontend&#39;s Database</h2>
2127                            <p>Storing data in a normalized form allows us to calculate fast indexes for lookups.</p>
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2147                            <h2>An Explanation of Segwit and the Lighning Network</h2>
2148                            <p>Segwit increases total number of bytes for each transaction (very slightly), but changes the way that block size is calculated so that the signatures don&#39;t count as much against the limit.</p>
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2168                            <h2>Reconciling Templates and JS Components</h2>
2169                            <p>The fundamental issue is that Django wants you to build up your pages using template fragments, and React wants to pull you into its world with JS components as the main building blocks.<
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2189                            <h2>Monadical Principles Handbook</h2>
2190                            <p>Our goal with this document is to share some of our knowledge and expertise around the process of working together as a team, in order to achieve a more efficient, happy and healthy working environment.</p>
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2211                            <p>When dealing with Django models accessed by multiple people, you want a way to make sure two requests don&#39;t perform writes at the same time.</p>
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2232                            <p>A map of all the subfields encompassed by computer science, with job titles commonly used to hire people in those areas.</p>
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2253                            <p>When writing an app using Redux and React, you may run into the common problem of having to share state between multiple components in your app.</p>
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2274                            <p>I often hear players say, “I hate that site. It’s completely rigged. I can never win there.” Perhaps those players simply ran bad at first on that site...</p>
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2371                                <i class="fa fa-facebook"></i>
2372                            </a>
2373                        </li>
2374                        <li>
2375                            <a href="https://linkedin.com/company/monadical" title="Monadical LinkedIn" target="_blank"
2376                                rel="noopener">
2377                                <i class="fa fa-linkedin"></i>
2378                            </a>
2379                        </li>
2380                        <li>
2381                            <a href="https://github.com/Monadical-SAS" title="Monadical Github" target="_blank"
2382                                rel="noopener">
2383                                <i class="fa fa-github"></i>
2384                            </a>
2385                        </li>
2386                    </ul>
2387                </div>
2388            </div>
2389            
2390        </div>
2391        
2392        
2393    </footer>
2394    
2395
2396    
2396<script type="text/javascript">
2397        // hide all the tags containing fake contact info that are there to throw off scrapers
2398        // most scrapers dont run JS, so this fairly effectively masks our real info from bots
2399        for (const elem of document.querySelectorAll('.please-scrape-this-fake-info')) {
2400            elem.style.display = 'none'
2401        }
2402    </script>
2402
2403
2404    
2404<script src="/static/squares.js"></script>
2404
2405
2406
2407    
2408    
2409
2410    <!-- Smooth Scroll to Anchor Links Animation -->
2411    
2411<script>
2412        function getUnicodeHash(reference) {
2413            return "#\\" + reference.codePointAt(1).toString(16) + " " + reference.slice(2)
2414        }
2415        function smoothScroll(e) {
2416            const hash = decodeURIComponent(this.hash)
2417            e.preventDefault()
2418            e.stopPropagation()
2419
2420            console.log('Scrolling to', this.getAttribute('href'))
2421            let reference = this.getAttribute('href')
2422            if (reference.match(/^#[0-9]+/)) {
2423                reference = getUnicodeHash(reference)
2424            }
2425            document.querySelector(reference).scrollIntoView({
2426                behavior: 'smooth'
2427            });
2428            setTimeout(() => {
2429                window.location.hash = hash
2430            }, 500/*arbitrary value, not standartized*/);
2431        }
2432        document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => {
2433            document.querySelectorAll('a[smoothhashscroll]').forEach(elem => {
2434                /*
2435                   this code drops all the event listeners that were attached so far;
2436                   we need to do it here because the event listeners themselves are not under control of this repo
2437                   this content together with js files (that are executed) is presumably downloaded from hedgedoc
2438                   this is a very hacky hack, we shall negate it "as soon as we can"
2439                */
2440                elem.parentNode.outerHTML = elem.parentNode.outerHTML
2441            })
2442            document.querySelectorAll('a[href^="#"], a[smoothhashscroll]').forEach(anchor => {
2443                anchor.addEventListener('click', smoothScroll);
2444            });
2445        })
2446    </script>
2446
2447
2448    <!-- Matomo -->
2449    
2449<script type="text/javascript">
2450        var _paq = window._paq || [];
2451        /* tracker methods like "setCustomDimension" should be called before "trackPageView" */
2452        _paq.push(["setCookieDomain", "*.monadical.com"]);
2453        _paq.push(['trackPageView']);
2454        _paq.push(['enableLinkTracking']);
2455        // accurately measure the time spent in the visit
2456        _paq.push(['enableHeartBeatTimer']);
2457        (function () {
2458            var u = "//analytics.zervice.io/";
2459            _paq.push(['setTrackerUrl', u + 'matomo.php']);
2460            _paq.push(['setSiteId', '12']);
2461            var d = document,
2462                g = d.createElement('script'),
2463                s = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
2464            g.type = 'text/javascript';
2465            g.async = true;
2466            g.defer = true;
2467            g.src = u + 'matomo.js';
2468            s.parentNode.insertBefore(g, s);
2469        })();
2470    </script>
2470
2471    <!-- End Matomo Code -->
2472
2473    <!-- Highlight Code -->
2474    
2474<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/highlight.js/11.4.0/highlight.min.js"></script>
2474
2475    
2475<script>hljs.highlightAll();</script>
2475
2476    <!-- End Highlight Code -->
2477</body>
2478
2479</html>

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