What’s going on guys?

I got a nice and short tutorial this time for coding a time-lapse wallpaper using Python 3 – kind of like a customizable live wallpaper.

If you’ve followed my recent posts, you might remember of a Python background changer for dual monitors I made a while back.

Well, this tutorial is kind of building up on that post. Remember, if you just want to download the files, head down to the end of the post.

Time-lapse Wallpaper

Now that pretty much any smartphone already comes with built-in time-lapse features in their cameras and software, I thought:

“Wouldn’t it be cool to have a little script to instantly turn any time-lapses into a wallpaper? That can’t be too difficult!” 😀

That is basically the story for this video tutorial.

It turns out, it wasn’t too difficult after all, just about ~40 lines of code in Python 3 – with some comments here and there, so maybe even 30ish.

[ Part 1 (Introduction) – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 ]

Howdy! How you doing today?

Welcome to another series of videos!

This time we’re diving into hybrid applications with Ionic 4.

We’ll be developing a simple card matching game that you can run in many different platforms like: Android, Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, etc.) and basically anything that runs HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

I’m always excited to learn new technologies and of course, share the knowledge with you guys in my path moving forward. But why Ionic?

Ionic Framework

With the explosion of smartphones and mobile applications of this decade, there had to be new developments for programmers as well. Why?

Well, imagine that programmers would have to learn how to make applications for Android, then for Apple devices, then Microsoft products and the list goes on… something had to be done.

It turns out that hybrid applications would make our lives incredibly easier by allowing programmers to use a single codebase for applications.

All thanks to frameworks like Ionic, among others, usually JavaScript-based.

Now that you know more about the framework and its capabilities, let’s take a look at the required software for this project.

Hello there, how’s it going? (Download script here)

In today’s post, I want to show you a short script to do recursive file encryption in Python 3 – using pyAesCrypt with AES encryption.

Its amazing how powerful this programming language is, really. This is mostly what I wanted to show you guys this time and one of the main reasons I keep coming back time after time to Python.

Using about 20 lines of code, we’re able to encrypt many files in seconds.

Anyway, this post will basically function as a introduction into encryption in Python 3. I had many posts about using encryption in my previous blog with PyCrypto – and I’m still a big fan. However, with Python 2.X in the midst of sunsetting, I figure its time to start looking at newer libraries.

I know there are recent forks for PyCrypto such as PyCryptodome, but in any case, its always good to have some variety in your arsenal.

With that said, pyAesCrypt seems to work rather seamlessly and provides a few different options for functionality – file encryption, stream encryption and in-memory encryption (sounds spicy ay?).

Encryption Using pyAesCrypt

Before we get into the recursive file encryption script, let’s take a look at their brief, yet effective example of basic file encryption:

What’s up guys? Got a sweet and short tutorial for you today!

Before we begin, I want to clarify this tutorial is for Windows 10. I’m pretty sure it should work for other Windows version as well. I will probably make a Linux version for it soon too, so watch out for it! If you’re interested in it for a different operating system, leave a comment below.

Also, if you just want the script and don’t care about the article, head all the way down to the end of the post where you will find a download for either the Python 2.7 version or Python 3 scripts. Please watch the video though, so you know the instructions to get the script working (its easy!).

Yesterday I was looking for a way to automatically change the background / wallpaper of both my monitors using a Python script (every X seconds).

Although I was able to find a few sources to change the background, it would change the background for both of my monitors at once.

I then ran into this stackoverflow post, where a user replied suggesting merging two images into one and then setting the background as a tiled image using Win32 API functions – thank you fine sir.

Well, luckily I had some previous experience with Win32 API and its functionality under Python and I also had some experience working with images in Python using Python Imaging Library (PIL).

I decided this could be a fun little challenge and set out to do it. 😉

[ Part 1 (Overview) – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7 ]

Welcome to my blog’s first tutorial series!

Hey guys! Ready to write some code?

We’ve put a lot of work in these past five parts and today is no exception, however, we’ll try to take it easy after that insanity in the last article.

Looking back I probably should’ve broken that last article in more parts. At the same time, I guess it serves to separate the kittens from the lions. 😀

Enough jokes for now, let’s keep moving…

Today we’ll be implementing the second part to the text-based user interface which is what I call the active client chat screen.

Of course this also requires us to first implement the logging system for all of our clients, along with notifications as well.

Besides that we’ll add a few more features to wrap it up.

Dive Into The Code

I’m gonna focus on the main blocks of code added this time, so right off the bat, let’s jump into the new ‘active client chat screen’ interface…