In this post, I am sharing my Python code for creating a simple musical keyboard player that can be played using a standard computer keyboard. The app will generate specific musical notes as you press keys A-Z on your keyboard. You can increase a note by half-step or full-step by each press. So, increasing by […]
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Find Superscripts, Subscripts, and Unicode in a text file (Python)
Occasionally, it becomes necessary to search for special characters like superscripts, subscripts, symbols, emojis, or any Unicode characters within a text document. This is crucial when working with data files that should not contain any such characters, unless they are explicitly required and managed. Most editors, including Word, lack a ‘Find’ feature that reveals all […]
How to make a perfect birthday cake in Excel
I’ve been exploring whether it’s possible to create a birthday cake-style chart in Excel. After some adjustments, I’ve reached a point where I can confidently say it’s achievable! You may ask, why not simply download an image from the internet? Well, that’s less engaging, potentially unlawful, and above all, it lacks the customization and scalability […]
Useful apps with PowerApps
With Microsoft PowerApps development platform, it’s convenient and relatively quick to create mobile and PC friendly apps by writing and designing the code just once. The apps are fully responsive on all devices (any manufacturer, any operating system) and supports both mouse and touch on any resolution of the device or computer. They can be […]
Excel…aww…I love you too!
Is it possible to use Excel for romantic or sentimental purposes? Absolutely! While Excel is commonly associated with routine tasks in accounting, finance, and data analysis, its capabilities extend far beyond these uses. In this post, I will showcase another unusual application of Excel that taps into its potential for more heartfelt endeavors. I experimented […]
Creating A Game Timeline Chart in Excel
Recently, while following the thrilling Premier League matches, I came across an eye-catching visual representation of the day’s game scores and timelines on BBC Sports. The post appeared as follows (on my mobile app): It’s both beautiful, elegant and conveys the key events of the game without overwhelming the viewer with too much other details. […]
Windows 11 Boot MicroAnimation and Wise Monkey using just text
Recently, an ex-colleague of mine brought to our attention the Microsoft font possibly used in creating the spinning dots in Windows 11 boot screen. The font is called “Segoe Boot Semilight” and is a true type font. So, I had to verify that this is true, and I wanted to try to create the animation […]
Creating Quizes and Surveys in Microsoft Forms
With the latest release of Microsoft Forms, creating a quiz, survey, or essentially any type of form for free using either work or personal account has never been easier. There are different ways to share the survey too such as emailing; and it’ll even help you write the invite or via Teams to anyone or […]
Different ways to generate a list and array containing numbers
In this post, I show different ways to generate a list and array containing numbers (ints, and floats, positive and negative, mixed) in python…using random, list, and numpy arrays. Why do we need both? NumPy arrays are very efficient for numerical operations and require elements to be of the same data type, whereas lists are […]
Finding min, max in a sequence and plotting the distances
Let’s say that we have a sequence of numbers in consisting of whole numbers, fractions, positive and negative numbers of varying length, that is, of no predefined length (e.g.2.25, 5.25, 6.75, 8.25, 9.75…). What we want to do is to sort the numbers in ascending order, and find the differences between 2 adjacent numbers and […]