Personal blog of Programmer Julius Kibunjiahttps://julius383.github.io/https://julius383.github.io/posts/2024-12-09-extracting-structured-data-from-pdf-files/https://julius383.github.io/posts/2024-12-09-extracting-structured-data-from-pdf-files/In this article I will go over the details of a recent project involving extracting data from a PDF Swahili-English dictionary.Mon, 09 Dec 2024 00:00:01 GMThttps://julius383.github.io/posts/2024-06-17-using-a-star-and-python-to-solve-a-puzzle/https://julius383.github.io/posts/2024-06-17-using-a-star-and-python-to-solve-a-puzzle/In this article we'll be trying to solve the puzzle game flood using Python. The game is played on a grid of cells that can be of any fixed number of colors.Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:01 GMThttps://julius383.github.io/posts/2024-04-22-web-scraping-on-the-shell/https://julius383.github.io/posts/2024-04-22-web-scraping-on-the-shell/Often times there's data on the internet we'd like to get our hands on. In most cases I'd start on a Python script with the usual suspects requests, beautifulsoup4, json or csv. This works well butwhen the task in question only needs to be run once, it would be alot easier to run a few commands on the shell.Mon, 22 Apr 2024 00:00:01 GMThttps://julius383.github.io/posts/2023-11-27-using-a-genetic-algorithm-to-guess-arithmetic-equations-in-julia/https://julius383.github.io/posts/2023-11-27-using-a-genetic-algorithm-to-guess-arithmetic-equations-in-julia/Genetic algorithms try to replicate the mechanisms of biological evolution to solve problems. In this article we'll use a somewhat useless example problem to demonstrate how to design and implement a genetic algorithm in Julia which I have been trying to learn recently.Mon, 27 Nov 2023 00:00:01 GMThttps://julius383.github.io/posts/2020-09-30-tips-for-an-improved-arch-linux-experience/https://julius383.github.io/posts/2020-09-30-tips-for-an-improved-arch-linux-experience/Arch is great but can require some effort to configure. Here are a couple of tips.Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:00:01 GMThttps://julius383.github.io/posts/2020-04-15-implementing-asemica-a-markov-chain-based-cipher/https://julius383.github.io/posts/2020-04-15-implementing-asemica-a-markov-chain-based-cipher/Factor implementation of a book keyed cipher, Asemica.Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:00:01 GMThttps://julius383.github.io/posts/2020-04-05-querying-pacman-with-datalog/https://julius383.github.io/posts/2020-04-05-querying-pacman-with-datalog/Using Datalog to query pacman dependencies.Sun, 05 Apr 2020 00:00:01 GMThttps://julius383.github.io/posts/2020-01-24-generating-mazes-with-haskell-part-1/https://julius383.github.io/posts/2020-01-24-generating-mazes-with-haskell-part-1/Implementing mazes from 'Mazes for Programmers' book.Fri, 24 Jan 2020 00:00:01 GMThttps://julius383.github.io/posts/2020-01-08-working-with-git/https://julius383.github.io/posts/2020-01-08-working-with-git/Useful git tricks.Wed, 08 Jan 2020 00:00:01 GMThttps://julius383.github.io/posts/2019-06-27-makefile-madness/https://julius383.github.io/posts/2019-06-27-makefile-madness/Tricks for transforming Make into a command runner.Thu, 27 Jun 2019 00:00:01 GMThttps://julius383.github.io/posts/2019-03-24-coloring-arbitrary-shell-output/https://julius383.github.io/posts/2019-03-24-coloring-arbitrary-shell-output/Color shell output with python-pygments.Sun, 24 Mar 2019 00:00:02 GMThttps://julius383.github.io/posts/2019-03-24-writing-a-command-for-ranger/https://julius383.github.io/posts/2019-03-24-writing-a-command-for-ranger/Using Python to write a custom command for Ranger file manager.Sun, 24 Mar 2019 00:00:01 GMThttps://julius383.github.io/posts/2019-03-22-data-flow-on-the-shell/https://julius383.github.io/posts/2019-03-22-data-flow-on-the-shell/Different ways to move data around the shell.Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00:02 GMT