Well, it seems that quite a lot of people struggle with python on NixOS! Actually, I don't think it's that difficult so let's dive in! This post is meant to be a definitive guide to python usage in NixOs. By usage, I mainly mean 2 things:

• make any python application work, whether it is a cli too...

I've skipped quite a lot of Cassidoo's question of the week this summer, but let's get back to it, in SQL of course!

The question

This week’s question: Write a function to find the longest common prefix string in an array of strings.

Example:

$ longestPrefix(["cranberry","crawfish","crap"...

I feel like I'm gonna like this serie a lot :-) It's so much fun!

Let's dive right in!

The interview question

Write a function that draws an ASCII art cube of given height x.

Example:

$ drawCube(2)
  +----+
 /    /|
+----+ |
|    | +
|    |/
+----+

$ drawCube(4)

   +--------+
  /...

I've recently discovered Cassidy's newsletter, more precisely this one and really liked it:

• it's short
• it's fun
• and there is a fun interview question

I admit I haven't read the linked articles :-)

This week’s question:

Given a direction and a number of columns, write a function...

I have encountered this issue several times already, including one time where I was called by a former customer. Enough of this, let's document this:

The issue: an old flask (<= 0.12) suddenly stopped working

This flask app was working fine for some time already. Maybe you tried to update some...