Hi there, I’m Christopher Tyler.
I am a Mechanical Engineer specializing in process creation and automation. While I am a Mechanical Engineer, I spend a fair amount of time programming and testing among other things.
Setting up OpenWeather Report GitHub Actions
#python#openweather_report#github actions#uv#astral
Adding GitHub workflows to help with linting, testing and publishing.
January 6, 2025
Attempt to Create a Link Blog
#Simon Willison#blog#Trey Hunner
I read Simon’s post earlier this week and it helped me form my own thoughts. Initially I wasn’t going to add any posts to my website that basically would either be a copy and paste with very little to add. For example, in Trey Hunner’s newsletter (which he did expand in a longer article): The main use case I have for uv involves this scenario: I’ve written a standalone Python script that I want to be globally accessible on my machine, but it requires a third-party dependency.
December 26, 2024
Upgrade from PostgreSQL 15 to 17 on Windows using pg_upgrade
#pg_upgrade#postgresql#windows 10#pg_dump#pg_dumpall
Overview At work I needed to upgrade from PostgreSQL from 15 to 17. The process is not that different than upgrading in Ubuntu but there were a couple of items that threw me off. Perform Backup This should be done prior to the update in case something goes wrong: CTyler@CTYLER_NB C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\17\bin [08:22] ❯ & 'C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\17\bin\pg_dumpall.exe' -p 5432 -U postgres -f D:\Backups\postgresql-ctyler_nb-20241107-1.out This was based on the documentation PostgreSQL: Documentation: 17: pg_dumpall.
November 10, 2024
Setup Apt-Mirror on Ubuntu
#apt-mirror#apache#ubuntu#python
Notes on how to setup apt-mirror with Ubuntu 24.04
September 13, 2024