Archive - The Third Road by Ethan Drower

Why You Should Put a Price on Happiness

I wake up more or less with the sun streaming in through the port side window.

Jan 10, 2024 •

August 2023

How to Sail Around the World - Some Assembly Required

For about 10 years or so, I’ve wanted to sail around the world.

Aug 28, 2023 •

July 2023

June 2023

July 2021

June 2021

Installing Pip Packages on a Juptyer Notebook

If you get receive a module not found, o r package not found on your jupyter notebook, it's because that environment (regardless of what you have in…

Jun 18, 2021 •

Syncing Trades with your TD Ameritrade API in Python

I just published a repository on github that shows you the easiest 'full service' solution for syncing trades and hitting the TD Ameritrade API.

Jun 8, 2021 •

Useful Django Project Templates

Django is an insanely useful web framework for the average python developer. Properly used, you can boostrap a fully featured, production ready…

Jun 8, 2021 •

April 2021

How to Sell More

How to Sell More

Apr 7, 2021 •

March 2021

The 3 Types of Startup Partners That Will Strangle Your Idea and Obliterate Your Motivation

The 3 Types of Startup Partners That Will Strangle Your Idea and Obliterate Your Motivation

Mar 19, 2021 •

February 2021

The Bootstrapped Entrepreneur's (or Developer) Guide to Actually Selling What You've Built

The Bootstrapped Entrepreneur's (or Developer) Guide to Actually Selling What You've Built

Feb 2, 2021 •

July 2020

Jul 15, 2020 •

March 2020

If You Bill by the Hour for Software, Charge What You’re Worth

If You Bill by the Hour for Software, Charge What You’re Worth

Mar 20, 2020 •

November 2019

Storing Your Github Authentication Token on Ubuntu (workaround)

This is something that has always annoyed me, but ever since github changed their authentication methods I've never been able to successfully…

Nov 2, 2019 •

October 2019

20 Creativity Tips

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Oct 24, 2019 •

What’s On Your Booklist?

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Oct 24, 2019 •

Istanbul Travel Guide

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Oct 24, 2019 •

Simple Emailing For Logs + Troubleshooting

A lot of the systems I build require alerting of some kind (if exceptions occur, services go down etc.) Because it can sometimes be a pain with…

Oct 12, 2019 •

For Developers: Self Documenting Your Work

Some developers out there seem to have this incredible ability to remember the intricacies of the languages they write in and the gotchas of every…

Oct 11, 2019 •

Ultimate Python Datetime Date Function List

Working with Dates in python is actually quite simple once you get a hang of all the possible options out there. The datetime objects are pretty robust…

Oct 11, 2019 •

Using a Python Virtualenv in Crontab to run a Django Command

I'm posting this as much for my sanity as for yours (I always forget this). If you want to automate django commands via crontab then make sure you use…

Oct 10, 2019 •

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