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-title: "Mapping the states I visited"
-date: 2024-02-01T18:30:00-05:00
-draft: false
-tags: []
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-
-[Henrique's Impossible List](https://hacdias.com/impossible-list/) shows a list of countries that they've visited so far and their goals for the future. I personally have not travelled to many countries, but I have visited a several US states!
-
-Instead of presenting the states in a list, I thought it would be very cool to visually show it on a map. Ideally the map would be encoded in a SVG so that:
-
-- The image will scale regardless of the device size
-- I can manually edit the source to show the visited regions
-
-Now imagine my surprise after searching on [Kagi](https://kagi.com/) to come across a SVG in the public domain on [Wikipedia](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blank_US_Map_(states_only).svg). Even better, the following is shown near the top of the file
-
-```css
-/* Individual states can be colored as follows: */
-.ks,.mt,.pa {fill:#0000FF}
-.ca,.de {fill:#FF0000}
-/* In this example, Kansas, Montana and Pennsylvania are colored blue,
-and California and Delaware are colored red.
-Place this code in the empty space below. */
-```
-
-Such an elegant way of coloring in the states! Now it's up to me to come up with some categories. As of the time of writing, I decided on:
-
-- Green: Places I've lived
-- Blue: Places I've visited
-- Darker Gray: Places I've driven through
-
-Here's how I colored by map:
-
-![Map of US States colored by whether I've visited](/files/images/usa_visited.svg)
-
-For the last couple weeks, I've been brainstorming new pages for my website and came up with https://brandonrozek.com/visited.
-
-At the time of writing, it only has the colored in states and a list of cities I've been to. Though I'm welcome to any suggestions you might have. Feel free to [get in touch!](/contact)
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-title: "Quick Python: Refactoring Exceptions with Context Manager"
-date: 2024-02-01T20:48:21-05:00
-draft: false
-tags: ["Python"]
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-
-I generally find exception syntax a little clunky...
-
-```python
-try:
-    for _ in range(5):
-        sleep(1)
-except KeyboardInterrupt:
-    # Awesome task 1
-    # Awesome task 2...
-    pass
-```
-
-Especially if you end up capturing the same exceptions and handling it the same way.
-
-```python
-try:
-    for _ in range(5):
-        sleep(1)
-except KeyboardInterrupt:
-    # Awesome task 1
-    # Awesome task 2...
-    pass
-
-try:
-    for _ in range(2):
-        sleep(1)
-except KeyboardInterrupt:
-    # Awesome task 1
-    # Awesome task 2...
-    pass
-```
-
-One way to make our code more DRY (don't-repeat-yourself) is to make use of Python's context managers.
-
-```python
-@contextmanager
-def handle_sigint():
-    try:
-        yield
-    except KeyboardInterrupt:
-        # Awesome task 1
-        # Awesome task 2...
-        pass
-```
-
-Using the context manager, everything within the indented block gets executed within the try block.
-
-```python
-with handle_sigint():
-    for _ in range(5):
-        sleep(1)
-
-with handle_sigint():
-    for _ in range(2):
-        sleep(1)
-```
-
-In fact, we can write this in a generic way to give us an alternative syntax for handling exceptions.
-
-```python
-@contextmanager
-def handle_exception(f, *exceptions):
-    try:
-        yield
-    except exceptions as e:
-        f(e)
-```
-
-For example, let's tell the user that we're explicitly ignoring their exception
-
-```python
-def ignore(e):
-    print("Ignoring", e.__class__.__name__)
-
-with handle_exception(ignore, NotImplementedError, KeyboardInterrupt):
-    for _ in range(5):
-        sleep(1)
-```
-