More than a year ago, in my first post on this blog, I described my head in the cloud, feet on the ground strategy for offline email access. At that time, my solution (based on offlineimap) required me to store my email password in my Gnome keyring. This is far from satisfactory because as I… Continue reading OAuth2 authentication for offline email clients
Month: November 2016
Migrating from R to Python
Many years ago, I shifted from Microsoft Excel and LibreOffice Calc to R data frames as my primary spreadsheet tool. This was one of the earliest steps in my ongoing move from bloat to minimalism (see my three blog posts on this process). Shifting to R yielded many benefits: Greater readability and maintainability Version control… Continue reading Migrating from R to Python
Prof. Jayanth R Varma's blog on computing 