Thoughts on Programming
What good are all the files in the file system if you can’t find them again? Exactly—none. That’s why this blog post is all about searching for files (and folders) using the shell. There are several commands available for this, but I’ll focus on find. Open the Terminal and create a new subfolder named “shell” … Read more
Introduction Rust is a relatively young language in the field of systems programming. Its first stable release came out in 2015, though it was announced back in 2010. Rust blends several programming paradigms — functional, object-oriented, and concurrent — making it easy for programmers from different backgrounds to find familiar concepts. However, those unfamiliar with … Read more
The Tkinter library is available in Python for creating a graphical user interface. In addition, the CustomTkinter UI library is a modern variant that allows more customization in terms of appearance. This article shows how CustomTkinter can be used to create a window with two text fields (entries), a button widget and a label widget. … Read more
uv is a package manager written in Rust that is an alternative to pip. It allows you to isolate a project, meaning packages installed with uv are only available to the respective Python project. This makes it possible to install different package versions for different projects. When a package is installed with uv, the package … Read more
The first Tkinter article showed how to create a simple window with a label. Here is the code: Grid was used as layout manager. After executing this code, this window appears: This simple app could now be further developed by adding more widgets. However, the more components are added, the more confusing the code becomes. … Read more