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Yesterday I attended a Python user group meeting in Ghent. It was interesting and I'm glad I joined despite this week being my first in my new position. They were 3 talks: First talk was about Design Patterns in Python: after a brief presentation of the famous book from the …

How this project started (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) During my sabbatical time after my Agfa Healthcare career, I did a few things. Oh, nothing crazy. Repaired properly my arm, did yoga, went for many school activities with my kids, rented a van for a week with the family …

How my journey started (Part 1) With my friends we play a game on WhatsApp called "Where am I?". Someone posts a picture taken during a business trip or a holiday and the others need to guess where he/she was on the surface of the Earth. It's usually in …

Preamble: I suck at programming. In my friends group I probably am the nerdiest guy but I have been working with so many brilliant developers minds in my career that I have a low (or acute) self-esteem with regards to my programming skills. But truth is: I do develop for …

Yesterday I discovered a modern-looking UI toolkit for Python called NiceGUI and I played around a bit. Installation: pip install nicegui Hello world application from nicegui import ui ui.label('Hello world!') ui.run() To go a bit further, I decided to use the 2024 Olympic Games open data to …