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Two excellent Vue JavaScript Library Tutorial Videos In case you are curious, I have been heads down studying front-end web development lately. In particular, I am focused on the Vue.js library. If interested, you can learn more about it on VueJS.org. Of course, the first thing I did

Alternative to a Focused Learning Method I am usually trying to focus on the topic at hand when it comes to learning, let it be some aspects of Python, new technology in networking engineering, or learning how to become a better basketball player. I find it more effective when I

Handy Live Server for Static Web Pages I recently switched my web development editor to VS Code and been spending, on average, 6 or 7 hours a day in the environment in the last few weeks. I really liked the setup. At some point, I might even switch my Python

Handy HTML shortcuts in VS Code It is fun to learn the technologies that power the web, namely HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. One of the challenges, at least for me, is the time it took to repeatedly type in boiler codes for HTML. Take a very simple skeleton HTML page

Quick Introduction to the handy Linux nload tool As more and more network operating system adapts to the Linux OS, they can take advantage of the various Linux/GNU commands out of the box. Nload (https://linux.die.net/man/1/nload) is a quick and easy tool you can

Some initial thoughts about building CMS with Wagtail It is very exciting that this blog, https://networkautomation.ninja/p/blog/, is one of the finalists for the IT Blog Awards in the Best Newcomer category: If you have a minute, hop on to cast your vote at https://www.ciscofeedback.

Looking back at side projects in 2020 The year-end is obviously a good time for reflection. Needless to say, the year 2020 is anything but normal. I have always been a bit on the insecure side but 2020 surely kicked that feeling up a notch. The fear for an uncertain

Looking ahead to 2021 projects It is an understatement to say 2020 has been a difficult year for a lot of people. It certainly has not been easy for me, but compare to others who may have lost their jobs or health, our family has been really fortunate not to

Mr. Stephen King's book: On Writing As a teenager sitting in ESL (English-as-Second-Language) class struggling to grasp English concepts, it was a pretty long way from being an author. This may sound like a humble-brag, but publishing a book in 2017 was truly something I could check off

Pythonstartup as Environment Variables Most of us know how to customize our Linux shell when we need to work in the terminal. For example, to change the Bash prompt, we can simply edit the hidden (via the dot format) .bash_profile or .bashrc file in our home directory: PS1="

Results from Quick Network Topic Survey Last week as I was doing planning for this year's projects, I posted two quick identical surveys on Twitter and LinkedIn. The main objective is to see what the interest levels are for the various topics I have in mind. There is

Use VSCode for Remote Host Development I have been using and liking the free Visual Studio Code (https://code.visualstudio.com/) as my primary IDE for the last few months. At least for me, VSCode is a bit lighter weight as far as memory and CPU conception than PyCharm. It

Run 'pyATS version update' after updating pyATS If, like me, you had step away from pyATS (https://developer.cisco.com/docs/pyats) and try to upgrade the pyATS software via 'pip install --upgrade pyats', it might be a good idea to use 'pyATS version update&

New search and pagination added for Network Automation Nerds Blog Posts Summary The blog listing page is getting a bit long, so this week I added pagination to the end using this tutorial as a reference: https://learnwagtail.com/tutorials/how-to-paginate-your-wagtail-pages/ This lead to another issue of the need to

Documenting CML 2.1 Upgrade Experience Last year I documented installing the new Cisco Model Lab 2.0 from the older VIRL version 1.x, you can read about it here: https://networkautomation.ninja/p/blog/installing-cisco-model-lab-20-vmware-esxi-67/ Since the CML 2.x license was tied to the original VIRL 1.

Putting more context into PyCon TW 2020 and InterOp Digital 2020 Experiences It is an understatement, to say the least, that the year 2020 had turned our lives upside down. After the initial shock of lockdown, sadness, research, and a genuine question of 'how are we going to survive?

Looking back at the evolution of network automation in my own lense Back in 2019, when in-person meetings are possible, I did a lightning talk at the Pacific Northwest Automation Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Northwest-Network-Automation/events/263296418) titled 'Evolution of Network Automation: As Seen by Eric Chou'

Syntax Highlight HTML files as Jinja2 Templates If you develop websites using a framework, such as Django or Flask, chances are you will use one of the templating languages for the HTML files. This can be Jinja2, Django-Template, Cameleon, or any other templates. What if you want the IDE to