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Adding Audio to my blog posts

This is episode 1 of the Waylon Walker Audio experience, posts from waylonwalker.com [1]{.hoverlink} in audio form. So I have had this idea for awhile to add audio to my blog posts. The idea partly comes from the aws blog, if you have ever been on their blog you will have noticed that they have a voiced by amazon polly section. What to Expect # [2] Honestly I don’t know this is all new to me and I dont have much to go off of. For now its a test that may or may not work out. I will say that the time that I have available for clean audio is a bit limited so expect these to come out in batches as I get time to go back and record. What Not to Expect # [3] One thing that makes the aws blog really hard to listen to is the robotic voice, I definitely don’t want that. This will be voiced by a real human, Me. At the same time written text doesn’t translate directly to audio well so don’t necessarily expect the audio to be word for word. Code blocks # [4] There are a lot of code block...

⭐ yetudada yetudada

Check out yetudada [1] and their project yetudada [2]. No description available. References: [1]: https://github.com/yetudada [2]: https://github.com/yetudada/yetudada

⭐ timothycrosley quickpython

I’m impressed by quickpython [1] from timothycrosley [2]. A retro interactive coding environment powered by Python and nostalgia References: [1]: https://github.com/timothycrosley/quickpython [2]: https://github.com/timothycrosley

gatsby-remark-embedder

Inspired by discourse’s link expansion I am rolling out expansions for one line links on the blog waylonwalker [1]. I was able to find a gatsby plugin gatsby-remark-embedder [2] that expands one line links for social cards for popular platforms like twitter and YouTube through a repose from Kyle Mathews to my tweet. https://twitter.com/kylemathews/status/1329817928666005504 Use Cases # [3] This covers a couple of use cases I have with very little effort. - Twitter - YouTube install # [4] npm i gatsby-remark-embedder gatsby-plugin-twitter This was super quick and simple to setup, the only thing that was extra was to install the gatsby-plugin-twitter plugin as well as the gatsby-remark-embedder. enable # [5] // In your gatsby-config.js module.exports = { // Find the 'plugins' array plugins: [ `gatsby-plugin-twitter`, { resolve: `gatsby-transformer-remark`, options: { plugins: [ { resolve: `gatsby-remark-embedder`, options: { customTransformers: [ // Your custom t...

Expand One Line Links

I wanted a super simple way to cross-link blog posts that require as little effort as possible, yet still looks good in vanilla markdown in GitHub. I have been using a snippet that puts HTML [1] into the markdown. While this works, it’s more manual/difficult for me does not look the best, and does not read well as Goals for new card # [2] The new card should be fully automated to expand with title, description, and cover image. Bonus if I am able to attach a comment behind it. - fully automated - card expansion - Title - description - cover image Old Card # [3] If you can call it a card 🤣. This card was just an image wrapped in an anchor tag and a paragraph tag. I found this was the most consistent way to get an image narrower and centered in both GitHub and dev.to. <p style='text-align: center'> <a href='https://waylonwalker.com/notes/eight-years-cat/'> <img style='width:500px; max-width:80%; margin: auto;' src="https://dropper.wayl.one/file/99f80283-2f27-4664-8c4a-d1...

⭐ astronomer dag-factory

astronomer [1] has done a fantastic job with dag-factory [2]. Highly recommend taking a look. Dynamically generate Apache Airflow DAGs from YAML configuration files References: [1]: https://github.com/astronomer [2]: https://github.com/astronomer/dag-factory

⭐ orchest orchest

orchest [1] by orchest [2] is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves. Build data pipelines, the easy way 🛠️ References: [1]: https://github.com/orchest/orchest [2]: https://github.com/orchest

⭐ gvanrossum patma

gvanrossum [1] has done a fantastic job with patma [2]. Highly recommend taking a look. Pattern Matching References: [1]: https://github.com/gvanrossum [2]: https://github.com/gvanrossum/patma

⭐ mingrammer diagrams

mingrammer [1] has done a fantastic job with diagrams [2]. Highly recommend taking a look. 🎨 Diagram as Code for prototyping cloud system architectures References: [1]: https://github.com/mingrammer [2]: https://github.com/mingrammer/diagrams

⭐ swyxio svelte-actions

Just starred svelte-actions [1] by swyxio [2]. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer. prototype official actions for Svelte References: [1]: https://github.com/swyxio/svelte-actions [2]: https://github.com/swyxio

reasons-to-kedro

There are many reasons that you should be using kedro. If you are on a team of Data Scientists/Data Engineers processing DataFrames from many data sources should be considering a pipeline framework. Kedro is a great option that provides many benefits for teams to collaborate, develop, and deploy data pipelines What is Kedro [1] Starter Template # [2] Kedro makes it super easy to get started with their cli that utilizes cookiecutter under the hood. conda create -n my-new-project -y python=3.8 kedro new kedro install kedro run Create New Kedro Project [3] read more about how to start your first kedro project here Collaboration # [4] Kedro provides many tools that help teams collaborate on a single codebase. While writing monolithic scripts it can be easy to pin yourself in a corner where it is difficult to have multiple people making changes to the notebook/script at the same time. Kedro helps guide your team to break your project down into small pieces that different members o...

⭐ KasperZutterman Second-Brain

Just starred Second-Brain [1] by KasperZutterman [2]. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer. A curated list of awesome Public Zettelkastens 🗄️ / Second Brains 🧠 / Digital Gardens 🌱 References: [1]: https://github.com/KasperZutterman/Second-Brain [2]: https://github.com/KasperZutterman

⭐ nastyox Repo-Roster

Just starred Repo-Roster [1] by nastyox [2]. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer. Shout-out supporters in your GitHub README file. References: [1]: https://github.com/nastyox/Repo-Roster [2]: https://github.com/nastyox

What&rsquo;s New in Kedro 0.16.6

Kedro 0.16.6 [1] is out! Let’s take a look through the release notes Deployment Docs # [2] This is really exciting to see more deployment options coming from the kedro team. It really shows the power of the framework. The power of some of these orchestrations options is incredible. - Argo [3] - Prefect [4] - Kubeflow [5] - Batch [6] - SageMaker [7] Most of them hinge on a sweet combination of the kedro cli, docker image, and the pipeline knowing your nodes dependencies. Argo, Prefect, and Kubeflow have an interesting technique where they translate the pipeline and its dependencies from kedro to their language. Batch uses the aws cli to submit jobs, one node per job, and listen for them to complete. It will submit all nodes with completed dependencies at once, meaning that we can get some massive parallelization. I did a quick and dirty test of one of these by simulating the technique in a bash script and saw a 40 hr pipeline finish in about 1 hour. I am excited to get thi...

⭐ mkdocs mkdocs

mkdocs [1] by mkdocs [2] is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves. Project documentation with Markdown. References: [1]: https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs [2]: https://github.com/mkdocs

A brain dump of stories

I started making stories as kind of a brain dump a few times per day and posting them to [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/waylonwalker/(https://www.linkedin.com/in/waylonwalker/). Here are the last 11 days of stories. I store all the stories on my website with the hopes of doing something with them on my own platform eventually. For now it makes it easy to make these posts. cd static/stories ls | xargs -I {} echo '' Stories 10-10-2020 - 10-21-2020 # [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] References: [1]: #stories-10-10-2020---10-21-2020 [2]: https://waylonwalker.com/stories/TIL-kedro-sorts-nodes.png [3]: https://waylonwalker.com/stories/disable-base-pip.png [4]: https://waylonwalker.com/stories/discovered-social-cards.png [5]: https://waylonwalker.com/stories/find-kedro-de1-contributor.png [6]: https://waylonwalker.com/stories/hacktoberfest-2020-kedro-538-tests-pass.png [7]: https://waylo...

⭐ mmchougule kedro-grpc-server

Check out mmchougule [1] and their project kedro-grpc-server [2]. Kedro gRPC Server is a Kedro plugin that creates a gRPC server for triggering and monitoring pipeline runs using a general-purpose RPC framework gRPC References: [1]: https://github.com/mmchougule [2]: https://github.com/mmchougule/kedro-grpc-server

⭐ yetudada kedro-user-testing

Check out yetudada [1] and their project kedro-user-testing [2]. Discovery prototypes for user testing References: [1]: https://github.com/yetudada [2]: https://github.com/yetudada/kedro-user-testing

⭐ ikamensh flynt

The work on flynt [1] by ikamensh [2]. A tool to automatically convert old string literal formatting to f-strings References: [1]: https://github.com/ikamensh/flynt [2]: https://github.com/ikamensh

⭐ charmbracelet glow

charmbracelet [1] has done a fantastic job with glow [2]. Highly recommend taking a look. Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! 💅🏻 References: [1]: https://github.com/charmbracelet [2]: https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow

⭐ mytechnotalent Python-For-Kids

Check out mytechnotalent [1] and their project Python-For-Kids [2]. A FREE comprehensive online Python development tutorial FOR KIDS utilizing an official BBC micro:bit Development Board going step-by-step into the world of Python for microcontrollers. References: [1]: https://github.com/mytechnotalent [2]: https://github.com/mytechnotalent/Python-For-Kids

⭐ nnja pycon_pybadge_2020

I’m impressed by pycon_pybadge_2020 [1] from nnja [2]. Initial code for Microsoft’s PyBadge at PyCon 2020 References: [1]: https://github.com/nnja/pycon_pybadge_2020 [2]: https://github.com/nnja

Fix git commit author

I was 20 commits into a hackoberfest PR when I suddenly realized they they all had my work email on them instead of my personal email 😱. This is the story of how I corrected my email address on 19 individual commits after already submitting for a PR. - Change the email for this repo [1] - Prepare for rebasing [2] - start the rebase [3] - 🛠 Fix First wrong Commit [4] - Fix all commits [5] - Done [6] - ReCap [7] Change the email for this repo # [1] stop the bleeding Before anything else set the email correctly! cd kedro git config user.name "Waylon Walker" git config user.email [email protected] Prepare for rebasing # [2] First thing is to find how many commits back this mistake goes. I opened up the git [8] log, and saw mine went back 19 commits. I rolled back 20 just to be sure. $ git log ... commit a355926b9d7ec4c05659adaa254beefbdb036332 Author: WaylonWalker <[email protected]> Date: Sat Oct 17 10:28:59 2020 -0500 give name of function inside incorrect parameters erro...

⭐ muesli duf

I like muesli’s [1] project duf [2]. Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better ‘df’ alternative References: [1]: https://github.com/muesli [2]: https://github.com/muesli/duf

Designing a &ldquo;Router&rdquo; for kedro

nodes_global # [1] I released a router-like plugin for kedro back in April 2020. This was not the first design, the idea actually came from one of the QB folks who taught me kedro nearly a year before. We were assembling our pipelines with something called nodes_global. It worked fairly well but did have some issues around being set as a global variable. But… One thing in particular that it did not lend itself well to was being able to create a packagable pipeline that I could pip install and append into any of my existing pipelines. Something I am still trying to work out, maybe I don’t need this. I think I have it working for our internal pipelines and it seems like the way to go, but we don’t necessarily end up using it. Also… With this pattern all of the nodes needed to be importable by the module containing nodes_global. I find that this becomes a big hurdle for new pipelines coming from jupyter to overcome and can be most infuriating when their nodes aren’t getting ran af...

⭐ AnkurDedania python_training

I came across python_training [1] from AnkurDedania [2], and it’s packed with great features and ideas. Intro to Python References: [1]: https://github.com/AnkurDedania/python_training [2]: https://github.com/AnkurDedania

⭐ github renaming

github [1] has done a fantastic job with renaming [2]. Highly recommend taking a look. Guidance for changing the default branch name for GitHub repositories References: [1]: https://github.com/github [2]: https://github.com/github/renaming

Reclaim memory usage in Jupyter

Today I ran into an issue where we had a one-off script that just needed to work, but it was just chewing threw memory like nothing. It started with a colleague asking me How do I clear the memory in a Jupyter notebook, these are the steps we took to debug the issue and free up some memory in their notebook. How do I clear the memory in a Jupyter notebook? Pre check the status of memory # [1] There are a number of ways that you can check the amount of memory on your system. The easiest is not necessarily my first go to is free… literally free. check for free space $ free -h total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 15G 15G 150M 0B 59M 8.7G Generally my first go to is a bit more graphical, and not available on a stock stystem, but far more useful…. htop. htop [2] is a terminal process explorer that shows cpu usage, mem usage, and running processes. htop sudo apt-get install htop # install it from your package repo htop [3] First step throw more swap at it # [4] Often be...

Strip Trailing Whitespace from Git projects

A common linting error thrown by various linters is for trailing whitespace. I most often use flake8. I generally have [pre-commit](https://waylonwalker.com/pre-commit-is-awesome hooks setup to strip this, but sometimes I run into situations where I jump into a project without it, and my editor lights up with errors. A simple fix is to run this one-liner. One-Liner to strip whitespace # [1] bash git grep -I --name-only -z -e '' | xargs -0 sed -i -e 's/[ \t]\+\(\r\?\)$/\1/' pre-commit is awesome I recently discovered the ✨ awesomeness that is pre-commit. I steered away from it for so long because it seemed like a big daunting thing to set up, but... Jun 5, 2020 [2] References: [1]: #one-liner-to-strip-whitespace [2]: /pre-commit-is-awesome/

⭐ tpope vim-sleuth

tpope [1] has done a fantastic job with vim-sleuth [2]. Highly recommend taking a look. sleuth.vim: Heuristically set buffer options References: [1]: https://github.com/tpope [2]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-sleuth

⭐ actions setup-python

actions [1] has done a fantastic job with setup-python [2]. Highly recommend taking a look. Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with a specific version of Python References: [1]: https://github.com/actions [2]: https://github.com/actions/setup-python

⭐ actions starter-workflows

I came across starter-workflows [1] from actions [2], and it’s packed with great features and ideas. Accelerating new GitHub Actions workflows References: [1]: https://github.com/actions/starter-workflows [2]: https://github.com/actions

⭐ actions checkout

checkout [1] by actions [2] is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves. Action for checking out a repo References: [1]: https://github.com/actions/checkout [2]: https://github.com/actions

⭐ nicknisi dotfiles

Looking for inspiration? dotfiles [1] by nicknisi [2]. vim, zsh, git [3], homebrew, neovim - my whole world References: [1]: https://github.com/nicknisi/dotfiles [2]: https://github.com/nicknisi [3]: /glossary/git/

⭐ sirupsen zk

Just starred zk [1] by sirupsen [2]. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer. Zettelkasten on the command-line 📚 🔍 References: [1]: https://github.com/sirupsen/zk [2]: https://github.com/sirupsen

⭐ sirupsen napkin-math

The work on napkin-math [1] by sirupsen [2]. Techniques and numbers for estimating system’s performance from first-principles References: [1]: https://github.com/sirupsen/napkin-math [2]: https://github.com/sirupsen

⭐ deepyaman kedro-accelerator

deepyaman [1] has done a fantastic job with kedro-accelerator [2]. Highly recommend taking a look. Kedro-Accelerator speeds up pipelines by parallelizing I/O in the background. References: [1]: https://github.com/deepyaman [2]: https://github.com/deepyaman/kedro-accelerator

Chrome Extensions I use

There are many useful chrome extensions out there. I probably have way too many installed, here are four that I am currently using. This post was inspired from Chris over at daily-dev-tips [1] - LastPass [2] - Stylus [3] - Vimium [4] - hypothesis [5] --- LastPass [6] # [7] Love it or hate it passwords are hard to manage. Everyone needs a password manager to avoid the dreaded password reuse, and to be able to quickly rotate them with a service. I use lastpass, thus it’s browser extension is my most used extension. [6] --- Stylus [8] # [9] Stylus is an extension that allows you to add your own CSS to style pages how you want. There seems to be a full community of folks that really use this to the nth degree to style all of their commonly used sites somewhat similarly or add dark mode to sites without it. Personally I mostly use it to add my favorite syntax highlighting theme to jupyter, onedark. I’ve long lost the original author, but have posted the CSS I use in this gi...

⭐ WaylonWalker find-kedro

The work on find-kedro [1] by WaylonWalker [2]. kedro plugin to automatically construct pipelines using pytest style pattern matching References: [1]: https://github.com/WaylonWalker/find-kedro [2]: https://github.com/WaylonWalker

⭐ WaylonWalker steel-toes

Looking for inspiration? steel-toes [1] by WaylonWalker [2]. a kedro hook to protect against breaking changes to data References: [1]: https://github.com/WaylonWalker/steel-toes [2]: https://github.com/WaylonWalker

⭐ htop-dev htop

I like htop-dev’s [1] project htop [2]. htop - an interactive process viewer References: [1]: https://github.com/htop-dev [2]: https://github.com/htop-dev/htop

Creating Reusable Bash Scripts

Bash is a language that is quite useful for automation no matter what language you write in. Bash can do so many powerful system-level tasks. Even if you are on windows these days you are likely to come across bash inside a cloud VM, Continuous Integration, or even inside of docker. I have three techniques that help me write more composable bash scripts. - functions [1] - Arguments [2] - positional arguments [3] - All Arguments [4] - Error Handling [5] - main script [6] --- Functions # [1] Break scripts down into reusable components Functions in bash are quite simple. They are something that I wish I would have started using long ago. They make your code much more reusable. I often use them in my aliases as well since they can simplify the process and allow more flexibility. syntax #!/bin/sh # hello_world hello_world () { echo "hello world" } Source the file to load the function and run it from the terminal. run it source hello_world hello_world outputs hello world ...

Three things to Automate with Python using Pandas

Here are three things that I see my non programming counterparts doing every single day. These really sum up so much of what folks do within an office. So many of us dabble in or become power users of spreadsheets without knowing there is an alternative out there that can save us time, automate boring things, and allow us to open up our minds for the part that we add value, Thinking about the data. Focus on Value Add Operations # [1] Lets face it, stitching together spreadsheets is zero value add by itself, but if you can see something in the data and take action on it, this can be huge value add to your company. Learning just a bit of python will help focus more of your attention on “value add operations” and leave the mundane stuff to your computer. Merge a directory full of spreadsheets into one # [2] I see this one all the time. One team gets a spreadsheet from another team once per month and they need to stich all the pieces together. Excel really opens the door for some na...

How to Install miniconda on linux (from the command line only)

miniconda is a python distribution from continuum. It’s a slimmed-down version of their very popular anaconda distribution. It comes with its own environment manager and has eased the install process for many that do not have a way to compile c-extensions. It made it much easier to install the data science stack on windows a few years ago. These days windows are much better than it was back then at compiling c-extensions. I still like its environment manager, which installs to a global directory rather than a local directory for your project. Installing miniconda on Linux # [1] Installing miniconda on Linux can be a bit tricky the first time you do it completely from the terminal. The following snippet will create a directory to install miniconda into, download the latest python 3 based install script for Linux 64 bit, run the install script, delete the install script, then add a conda initialize to your bash or zsh shell. After doing this you can restart your shell and conda will...

How to crush amazing posts on DEV

This post was inspired by a comment I left on @dsteenman’s post. {% post dsteenman/how-long-should-a-blogpost-be-2k6n %} Most of the time I prefer short as I am more likely to read the whole thing. If its setup as a series I am more likely to work my way through the whole series in a matter of a few sessions. Just my preference I will say though there are certain articles that fit well to the long format. They are articles that folks tend to come back to often as a reference again and again. Sections # [1] - layout is key [2] - Break it up [3] - Article types [4] - superpost [5] - single post [6] - series [7] - discussion [8] - Post what you want to read [9] layout is key # [2] Either way, you go layout is key. You are not Steven King, no matter how great of a writer you are, you are unlikely to hold attention like he can. Most folks reading blogs scan articles first. I often scan, then read. If the article is really good or pertains well to me I will read everything, ...

⭐ RanaEmad metrics-of-awesome-api

I like RanaEmad’s [1] project metrics-of-awesome-api [2]. A Node.js API with the main purpose of acting as a backend for practicing authentication in React. It enables the user to sign up, sign in and view a dashboard with his metrics of awesome through different endpoints. References: [1]: https://github.com/RanaEmad [2]: https://github.com/RanaEmad/metrics-of-awesome-api

⭐ elyase awesome-gpt3

If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on awesome-gpt3 [1], created by elyase [2]. No description available. References: [1]: https://github.com/elyase/awesome-gpt3 [2]: https://github.com/elyase

⭐ shreyashankar gpt3-sandbox

shreyashankar [1] has done a fantastic job with gpt3-sandbox [2]. Highly recommend taking a look. The goal of this project is to enable users to create cool web demos using the newly released OpenAI GPT-3 API with just a few lines of Python. References: [1]: https://github.com/shreyashankar [2]: https://github.com/shreyashankar/gpt3-sandbox

Black Tech Pipeline

I was particularly inspired by @chantastic episode 103 of the react podcast with @ParissAthena. They spoke about the black tech pipeline as well as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Pariss is quite an inspiration. She has done so much work to create a better place for POC in tech. I like that not only is she helping them get jobs but acting as a mentor for their first few months on the job to make sure that they are able to find their place and fit in. Based on an episode of react podcast. 🎙 Listen to the full episode [1]. So Inspirational # [2] I was particularly inspired by @chantastic [3] episode 103 of the react podcast with @ParissAthena [4]. They spoke about the black tech pipeline as well as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Pariss is quite an inspiration. She has done so much work to create a better place for POC in tech. I like that not only is she helping them get jobs but acting as a mentor for their first few months on the job to make sure that they are able to find ...

Review of the git-auto-commit-action

It’s a really cool GitHub action that will automatically commit files changed during the action. I was using this to render a new readme based on a template. Check out the repo for git-auto-commit-action [1]. It’s a really cool GitHub action that will automatically commit files changed during the action. I was using this to render a new readme based on a template. This has been by far the easiest way to commit back to a repo that I have seen. Other patterns often require fully setting up the git [2] user and everything. While it’s not all that hard, this action already has all of that covered. You must give it a commit message and thats it. Optionally you can configure a number of things. Its possible to configure the commit_user_name, commit_user_email, and commit_author. I often also scope the file_pattern to a certain subset of files. --- Getting Started with GitHub Actions Github actions are written in configuration files using the YAML syntax. YAML is a superset of JSON...