Johnny Nieves | Chief Technical Officer
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Johnny Nieves | Chief Technical Officer
@johnnynieves.bsky.social
CTO for Government Organization and US Army Veteran.
Focus is on Networking, Security, DevOps, Cloud, Automation, Python, Linux
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Hi everyone. Hope everyone is enjoying their holidays I'm looking to connect with like-minded folks in the IT industry, #Automation, #Cloud, #Python, and #Linux to share experiences and strategies. #devnet
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LLMs have training cutoff dates that you should be aware of:

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It's a good idea to double check Copilot's package installations #vscode #githubcopilot
YouTube video by Visual Studio Code
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April 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Proud to announce version 8.4 of Proxmox Virtual Environment! Check out all the details forum.proxmox.com/threads/prox...
April 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Podman Desktop 1.17 is now available!
- New running workflow 🛠️
- Registry mirror configuration 🔄
- Smoother kind cluster experience ☁️
- Podman 5.4 🚀
- Pods, redefined 📦
- Kubernetes experimental mode ⚡
podman-desktop.io/blog/podman-...
#PodmanDesktop #Podman #Developers #Containers
March 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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🎓 Tutorial: Running a pod using a container or docker file
podman-desktop.io/tutorial/run...
#PodmanDesktop #tutorial #container #docker
Running a pod using a container or docker file | Podman Desktop
Create and run a pod from a container or docker file on your machine.
podman-desktop.io
March 6, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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🐍📰 How to Work With a PDF in Python

In this step-by-step tutorial, you'll see how to extract metadata from preexisting PDFs . You'll also learn how to merge, split, watermark, and rotate pages in PDFs using Python and PyPDF2
#python
How to Work With a PDF in Python - Real Python
In this step-by-step tutorial, you'll learn how to work with a PDF in Python. You'll see how to extract metadata from preexisting PDFs . You'll also learn how to merge, split, watermark, and rotate pages in PDFs using Python and PyPDF2.
realpython.com
April 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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📰🐍 Get the best Python links of the week: PyCoder’s Weekly Issue #670: pyproject.toml, DuckDB, Flet, and More (Feb. 25, 2025)
PyCoder’s Weekly | Issue #670
Issue #670 of the PyCoder’s Weekly newsletter, published Feb. 25, 2025.
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February 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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🐍📰 Dictionaries in Python

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to work with Python dictionaries to help you process data more efficiently. You'll learn how to create dictionaries, access their keys and values, update dictionaries, and more

#python
Dictionaries in Python – Real Python
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to work with Python dictionaries to help you process data more efficiently. You'll learn how to create dictionaries, access their keys and values, update dictionaries, and more.
realpython.com
February 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Had some proper fun time with
- Pydantic
- datamodel-codegen
- httpx
- openapi v3
- @eda.dev

to have a full model driven automation experience without YANG. The best one I tried so far, and yes, you can call me biased, but that'd be my summary even if I were not part of the EDA team
Full model-driven network automation without YANG
YouTube video by Roman Dodin
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January 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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📦 louislam / uptime-kuma
⭐ 62,906 (+76)
🗒 JavaScript

A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool
GitHub - louislam/uptime-kuma: A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool
A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool. Contribute to louislam/uptime-kuma development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
January 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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🐍📺 Writing Beautiful Pythonic Code With PEP 8 [Video]

Learn how to write high-quality, readable code by using the Python style guidelines laid out in PEP 8. This course outlines the key guidelines laid out in PEP 8.
##python
Writing Beautiful Pythonic Code With PEP 8
Learn how to write high-quality, readable code by using the Python style guidelines laid out in PEP 8. Following these guidelines helps you make a great impression when sharing your work with potential employers and collaborators. This course outlines ...
realpython.com
January 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Linux kernel 6.13 brings plenty of changes, including lazy preempting, faster Raspberry Pi GPU driver, support for Apple A-series chips and lots more! #linux #opensource
Linux Kernel 6.13 Released, This is What's New
The first new kernel release of the year has arrived — yes, Linux 6.13 has gone stable. Linux kernel 6.13 adds, as ever, a vast array of improvements,
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January 20, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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🐍📰 Python REST APIs With Flask, Connexion, and SQLAlchemy – Part 2

##python
Python REST APIs With Flask, Connexion, and SQLAlchemy
In this three-part tutorial series, you'll create a RESTful API from scratch to keep track of people and notes using the Flask web framework. You'll also test your API with Swagger UI API documentation. In part two, you'll implement a SQLite database
realpython.com
January 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Raspberry Pi 5 with 16GB RAM launches for £115/$120, catering to users looking to run high-performance workloads such as LLM/VLMs.
At Last! Raspberry Pi 5 with 16GB RAM Goes On Sale
Raspberry Pi has today announced the launch of a Raspberry Pi 5 with 16GB RAM. A engorged-memory model had been oft-rumoured since the launch of the
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January 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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🐍📰 Using the Python zip() Function for Parallel Iteration

In this step-by-step tutorial, you'll learn how to use the Python zip() function to solve common programming problems.

##python
Using the Python zip() Function for Parallel Iteration – Real Python
In this step-by-step tutorial, you'll learn how to use the Python zip() function to solve common programming problems. You'll learn how to traverse multiple iterables in parallel and create dictionaries with just a few lines of code.
realpython.com
January 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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🐍📺 Pointers and Objects in Python [Video]

In this video course, you'll learn about Python's object model and see why pointers don't really exist in Python. You'll also cover ways to simulate pointers in Python without managing memory.
##python
Pointers and Objects in Python
In this video course, you'll learn about Python's object model and see why pointers don't really exist in Python. You'll also cover ways to simulate pointers in Python without managing memory.
realpython.com
December 27, 2024 at 3:00 AM
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🐍🎧 The Real Python Podcast — PDFs in Python and Projects on the Raspberry Pi
PDFs in Python and Projects on the Raspberry Pi
Have you wanted to work with PDF files in Python? Maybe you want to extract text, merge and concatenate files, or even create PDFs from scratch. Are you interested in building hardware projects using a Raspberry Pi? This week on the show we have David ...
realpython.com
December 11, 2024 at 5:00 AM
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December 10, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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As you’re multitasking trying to get your homes decorated and your code written, did you know that GitHub Copilot is joining you?

You can edit multiple files at once with GitHub Copilot! Learn how:
code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot...
Copilot Edits
Get started with Copilot Edits to start an AI-powered code editing session across multiple files in your project.
code.visualstudio.com
December 10, 2024 at 3:23 AM
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December 8, 2024 at 12:57 AM
Hi everyone. Hope everyone is enjoying their holidays I'm looking to connect with like-minded folks in the IT industry, #Automation, #Cloud, #Python, and #Linux to share experiences and strategies. #devnet
November 30, 2024 at 10:34 PM
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🔥 Hot Repo! 🔥 (100+ new stars)

📦 freeCodeCamp / freeCodeCamp
⭐ 406,317 (+108)
🗒 TypeScript

freeCodeCamp.org's open-source codebase and curriculum. Learn to code for free.
GitHub - freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp: freeCodeCamp.org's open-source codebase and curriculum. Learn to code for free.
freeCodeCamp.org's open-source codebase and curriculum. Learn to code for free. - freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp
github.com
November 30, 2024 at 5:01 PM