Vagrant creates and runs virtual machines, relying on virtualization providers such as Virtualbox, KVM, Docker, VMWare, and 30+ others. It will always default to launching the VM with Virtualbox unless we explicitly specify a different provider. In this guide I explain how I set up Vagrant with the Libvirt KVM provider on Linux. …

In this post I describe how I managed, from a MacOS, to correctly convert Jupyter Lab exercises to PDF in different environments. Converting Jupyter Lab notebooks to PDF is not easy due to the multiple variants (images, links) they can contain. I’ve tried intermediate exports, pandoc, apps, without much success. …

MacOS doesn’t include an option in Finder to preview Jupyter Lab notebooks (.ipynb). There are several options but one of the quickest and simplest is to install ipynb-quicklook …

Python is a multi-paradigm interpreted programming language. pip manages packages from PyPI (the Python Package Index). PipEnv lets you create a virtual environment to run your application in isolation with the necessary libraries. Jupyter Lab is a web application that serves as a bridge between code and explanatory text. …

MacOS doesn’t include an option in Finder to preview Markdown files (.md). There are several solutions available, and one of the quickest and simplest is to install qlmarkdown …

In this post I describe how I set up this static blog “built” with jekyll and hosted on GitHub Pages. The source files are in the repository LuisPalacios.github.io. The site is finally configured on my domain: https://www.luispa.com …