https://cetyler.github.io/posts/Recent content in Posts on Christopher TylerHugoen-usCopyright © 2026, Christopher Tyler.https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2026/2026-7-5_good_scripting/Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:33:10 -0500https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2026/2026-7-5_good_scripting/A good article from Bite Code.https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2026/2026-5-2_python_scripts/Sat, 02 May 2026 16:09:57 -0500https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2026/2026-5-2_python_scripts/Using Python for scripting especially with uv can replace other scripting languages.https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2025/2025-11-15_pretty_table/Sat, 15 Nov 2025 23:21:16 -0600https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2025/2025-11-15_pretty_table/Found a library that suits my needs but may also be abandoned.https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2025/2025-10-10_upgrade_postgresql/Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:37:30 -0500https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2025/2025-10-10_upgrade_postgresql/A couple of curveballs but a little easier than last year.https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2025/2025-7-18_stop_shipping_dashboards/Sun, 20 Jul 2025 15:52:37 -0500https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2025/2025-7-18_stop_shipping_dashboards/TLDR, don&rsquo;t forget to do requirements gathering and communicate, communicate, communicate.https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2025/2025-5-18_openlibrary/Sun, 18 May 2025 14:54:30 -0500https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2025/2025-5-18_openlibrary/Using DuckDB to analyze data from Open Library.https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2025/2025-5-3_how_to_run_python_prod/Sat, 03 May 2025 15:43:32 -0500https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2025/2025-5-3_how_to_run_python_prod/An informative article from Ashish.https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2025/2025-5-3_streamlit_cloud/Sat, 03 May 2025 13:31:51 -0500https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2025/2025-5-3_streamlit_cloud/Use StreamLit Cloud to further understand StreamLit and share.https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2025/2025-01-25_why_opensource/Sat, 25 Jan 2025 12:46:14 -0600https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2025/2025-01-25_why_opensource/Being able to share code performed at work.https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2025/2025-01-06_github_actions/Mon, 06 Jan 2025 19:50:52 -0600https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2025/2025-01-06_github_actions/Adding GitHub workflows to help with linting, testing and publishing.https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2024/2024-12-26-link_blog/Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:30:00 -0600https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2024/2024-12-26-link_blog/<p>I read <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/22/link-blog/">Simon&rsquo;s post</a> earlier this week and it helped me form my own thoughts. Initially I wasn&rsquo;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&rsquo;s newsletter (which he did expand in a longer <a href="https://treyhunner.com/2024/12/lazy-self-installing-python-scripts-with-uv/">article</a>):</p> <hr> <p>The main use case I have for uv involves this scenario:</p> <p>I&rsquo;ve written a standalone Python script that I want to be globally accessible on my machine, but it requires a third-party dependency.</p>https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2024/2024-11-11-pgupgrade/Sun, 10 Nov 2024 14:26:17 -0600https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2024/2024-11-11-pgupgrade/<h2 id="overview">Overview</h2> <p>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.</p> <h2 id="perform-backup">Perform Backup</h2> <p>This should be done prior to the update in case something goes wrong:</p> <div class="highlight"><div style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"> <table style="border-spacing:0;padding:0;margin:0;border:0;"><tr><td style="vertical-align:top;padding:0;margin:0;border:0;"> <pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code><span style="white-space:pre;-webkit-user-select:none;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">1 </span><span style="white-space:pre;-webkit-user-select:none;user-select:none;margin-right:0.4em;padding:0 0.4em 0 0.4em;color:#7f7f7f">2 </span></code></pre></td> <td style="vertical-align:top;padding:0;margin:0;border:0;;width:100%"> <pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-powershell" data-lang="powershell"><span style="display:flex;"><span>CTyler@CTYLER_NB <span style="color:#960050;background-color:#1e0010"></span> C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\<span style="color:#ae81ff">17</span>\bin <span style="color:#960050;background-color:#1e0010"></span> [<span style="color:#ae81ff">08</span><span style="color:#960050;background-color:#1e0010">:</span><span style="color:#ae81ff">22</span>] </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#960050;background-color:#1e0010">❯</span> &amp; <span style="color:#e6db74">&#39;C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\17\bin\pg_dumpall.exe&#39;</span> -p <span style="color:#ae81ff">5432</span> -U postgres <span style="color:#f92672">-f</span> D:\Backups\postgresql-ctyler_nb-<span style="color:#ae81ff">20241107</span>-<span style="color:#ae81ff">1</span>.out </span></span></code></pre></td></tr></table> </div> </div><p>This was based on the documentation <a href="https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-pg-dumpall.html">PostgreSQL: Documentation: 17: pg_dumpall</a>.</p>https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2024/2024-09-13-setup_aptmirror/Fri, 13 Sep 2024 21:43:02 -0500https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2024/2024-09-13-setup_aptmirror/Notes on how to setup apt-mirror with Ubuntu 24.04https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2024/2024-08-27-get_your_work-recognized/Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:00:00 -0500https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2024/2024-08-27-get_your_work-recognized/Make sure that you document your work to get recognized at work.https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2024/202408241533/Sat, 24 Aug 2024 15:33:48 -0500https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2024/202408241533/Migrating away from Pelican to Hugo.https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2024/2024-08-11-rebuild_website/Sun, 11 Aug 2024 15:54:00 -0500https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2024/2024-08-11-rebuild_website/More work than expected to get my development system to work with Pelican.https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2023/20230714134310/Wed, 04 Oct 2023 14:00:00 -0500https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2023/20230714134310/The pain of dealing with dates and time.https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2023/20230610-window_functions/Sat, 10 Jun 2023 14:30:00 -0500https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2023/20230610-window_functions/Book review summary of Anton&rsquo;s SQL Window Functions.https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2023/2023-04-30-weather_project_initial_release/Sun, 30 Apr 2023 20:10:00 -0500https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2023/2023-04-30-weather_project_initial_release/Initial working release.https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2023/20230130072602/Fri, 07 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2023/20230130072602/Add packages to an existing virtual environment.https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2022/2022-09-02-weather_project_requirements/Fri, 16 Sep 2022 20:00:00 -0500https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2022/2022-09-02-weather_project_requirements/Create a roadmap and requirements.https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2022/2022-08-01-weather_project_pypi/Thu, 11 Aug 2022 20:00:00 -0500https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2022/2022-08-01-weather_project_pypi/Setup PyPi with an empty project to lock in the project name.https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2022/2022-07-19-weather_project/Tue, 19 Jul 2022 20:00:00 -0500https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2022/2022-07-19-weather_project/Create a simple weather project to document how to add projects to PyPi and to aid with data analysis.https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2022/2022-01-14-reuven_wpe/Fri, 14 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0500https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2022/2022-01-14-reuven_wpe/Review of Reuven&rsquo;s Weekly Python Exercise A3.https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2022/2022-01-08-reuven_oop/Sat, 08 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0500https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2022/2022-01-08-reuven_oop/Review of Reuven&rsquo;s OOP Python self pace course.