While working on some instructional Jupyter Notebooks lately, I included written instructions for installing required Python modules from PyPI using pip. Some users of the notebooks were very new to Python (and programming in some cases), so the extra installation step seemed onerous. I decided my notebooks should include code to install the required Python modules for the user, if they didn’t want to run pip themselves.

According to the “Transitioning Google URL Shortener to Firebase Dynamic Links” article on the Google Developers blog, the goo.gl URL shortening service is being phased out. Some of its features were disabled on 13 April 2018 and most of the rest of the management features will be disabled on 30 March 2019. Redirection for existing links will continue to work after that time, but it’s not clear how long that will be the case.

This morning my iOS devices told me tomorrow is Easter. As I logged into my MacBook, it told me the same. The fact is, though, that Easter was almost two weeks ago on 01 Apr. That’s the date many sources give, including timeanddate.com.

My first entry.

Next you can update your site name, avatar and other options using the _config.yml file in the root of your repository (shown below).