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People who are quick to toss team members under a bus are not well trusted or highly thought of and it will lead to some toxic team dynamics. Building Steam While collaborating on any project there are going to be decisions made that aren’t necessarily your favorite, during a summer internship my mentor made some decisions that I was not on board with, but I accepted his wisdom and moved forward with little push back. Full Spead Ahead During a review, leadership showed interest in the option that I wanted to go towards. I was quick to jump up and say I told you so right then and there and pitch reasons why my idea was so much better. The Aftermath I walked out so proud that leadership recognized my idea, but I will never forget the look on my teammate’s face and what he told me after the meeting. “Wow quick to throw me under the bus in front of everyone 😢”. I ~ my teammate Realizing what Happened It was at this moment that I threw my mentor, a good friend in front of a bus that was at…

I create this blog with one person in mind, me. There are others like me This is not completely selfish, as there are likely many others out there that think similarly to me. Everyone comes from different backgrounds and varying levels of experience. In no way do you need to be an expert to create content others will benefit from. Accurate I am as accurate as possible. I don’t know everything, and If I waited for that to happen I would never post, or write at such a high level no one else (including me) would ever want to read. Generally I know that I am directionally accurate for most of the article. In fact there is often a part of the article that I don’t feel the best about. It may have been some code that could have been better. I try to point these things out. Often when I am and point out where I know there is improvement to be had I get the most welcoming comments, “that was just fine how you did that”, or “I tried that myself and saw a better abstraction. Create the articles I…

How small can a minimum kedro pipeline ready to package be? I made one within 4 files that you can pip install. It’s only a total of 35 lines of python, 8 in and 27 in. 📝 Note this is only a composable pipeline, not a full project, it does not contain a catalog or runner. Minimal Kedro Pipeline I have everything for this post hosted in this gihub repo, you can fork it, clone it, or just follow along. Installation Caveats This repo represents the minimal amount of structure to build a kedro pipeline that can be shared across projects. Its installable, and drops right into your or modules. It is not a runnable pipeline. At this point I think the config loader requires to have a logging config file. This is a sharable pipeline that can be used across many different projects. Usage Implemantation This builds on another post that I made about creating the minimal python package. I am not sure if it should be called a package, it’s a module, but what do you call it after you build it and hos…

This is a post that may be a work in progress for awhile, Its a collections of thoughts on managing my blog, but could be translated into anythiung that is just a collection of markdown. Listing things posts tags draft posts data frontmatter filepath content template html render content Markdown.Markdown support extentsions frontmatter cleaning. provide ways to hook in or clean up the frontmatter Markata.Markata methods load render save Markata.Post methods load render save Markata plugins before_load before_post_load after_load after_post_load before_save before_post_save after_save after_post_save Markata plugins cleanse_frontmatter html_feed json_feed rss_feed save_posts CLI

I am making another push in 2021 to get my content out in the world and meeting users where they are. See how I plan to execute. Platforms waylonwalker.com Twitter DEV hashnode Medium LinkedIn Anchor Markdown My content is written in markdown, all markdown. I find that markdown does a really great job at getting out of the way and letting ideas flow onto the page. I am never fussing with fonts and formatting while physically writing posts. Not that I don’t spend way more time than I need to tweak these things on my own personal site where everything gets posted. Articles Much of what I create is inside of short articles that get posted to my personal site waylonwalker.com. These will get cross-posted to DEV, hashnode, Medium. I have made cross-posting a bit easier for myself by posting the markdown for each article next to the post on my personal site. Add.md to any post and there is the source. Should I be giving my articles to Medium?? Personally, I am not a fan of the bait and switc…

Recently I automated starting new posts with a python script. Today I want to work on the next part that is editing those posts quickly. Automating my Post Starter Check out this post about setting up my posts with python 🐍 Enter Bash For the process of editing a post I just need to open the file in vim quickly. I dont need much in the way of parsing and setting up the frontmatter. I think this is a simple job for a bash script and fzf. change to the root of my blog fuzzy find the post open it with vim change back to the directory I was in bash function For this I am going to go with a bash function. This is partly due to being able to track where I was and get back. Also the line with nvim will run fzf everytime you source your file which is not what we want. Lets setup the boilerplate. Its going to create a function called ep, track our current directory, create a sub function. Then call that function and cd back to where we were no matter if fails or succeeds. boilerplate Creating R…

Gitui is a terminal-based git user interface (TUI) that will change the way that you work with git. I have been a long-time user of the git cli, and it’s been hard to beat, mostly because there is nothing that keeps my fingers on the keyboard quite like it, except which comes with some great ways to very quickly walk through a git project. installation Go to their [releases]https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui/releases) page, download the latest build, and pop it on your PATH. I have the following stuffed away in some install scripts to get the latest version. install latest release run It opens blazing fast. Quick Commits Sometimes I edit a number of files and want to commit them one at a time, this is painful in the git cli and my main use case for. shows unstaged changes at the top, staged changes on the bottom, and a diff on the right. Navigate with hjkl By default, uses arrow keys, but simply copying vim_style_key_config.ron to your config directory will get you vim-like keybinding…

In python data science/engineering most of our data is in the form of some sort of table, typically a DataFrame from a library like pandas, spark, or dask. DataFrames are the heart of most pipelines These containers for data contain many convenient methods to manipulate table like data structures. Sometimes we leverage other data types, namely vanilla types like lists and dicts, or even numpy data types. What is Kedro unfamiliar with kedro, check out this post Sometimes datasets are not tables There are times when our data doesn’t fit nicely into a DataFrame. Lucky for us Kedro has pickle support out of the box. Pickle is a way to store any python object to disk. Beware that pickle files coming from an unknown source can run malicous code and are considered unsafe. For the most part though when you read and write your own pickle files they are a good tool to consider. See more about pickle from python.org. Cataloging Pickle I may have a dictionary that describes some cars. In the catal…

Changing conda environments is a bit verbose, I use a function with fzf that both lists environments and selects the one I want in one go. Conda I have used conda as a virtual environment tool for years now. I started using conda for its simplicity to install packages on windows, but now that has gotten so much better and it’s been years since I have run a command. I’m sure that I could use a different environment manager, but it works for me and makes sense. What environment manager do you use for python? Conda environments are stored in a central location such as and not with the project. They contain both the python interpreter and packages for that env. Conda create Conda environments are created with the command. At this point, you will need to name your env and select the python version. After running this command you will have a directory with a base python install. It will not be active yet. List environments Before activating an environment I often want to list the environment…

Replacing text based on whats in the current search register is a quite handy tool that I use often. I believe I picked this tip up from Nick Janetakis, check out his YouTube channel for some amazing vim tips. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP_ckZ30gbs If there is one thing that I Like most about vim it’s the ability to hack on it and make it work well for you. Replacing text in vim Vim can often be a bit verbose, but that’s ok because we can hack on it, and make our own shortcuts and keybindings. For instance, finding and replacing text requires using a command at the vim command-line. Replacing foo with bar looks like this, the final g means all of the foos, not just the first one on the line. making it better I have a keybinding in my that will allow me to search for a pattern with the usual character, page through them as normal with and, but when I press it will populate the replace command for me so that all I need to do is type out the new text. Note on the In command mode vim…

What does it take to create an installable python package that can be hosted on pypi? What is the minimal python package setup.py my_module.py This post is somewhat inspired by the bottle framework, which is famously created as a single python module. Yes, a whole web framework is written in one file. Directory structure setup.py name The name of the package can contain any letters, numbers, “_”, or “-”. Even if it’s for internal/personal consumption only I usually check for discrepancy with pypi so that you don’t run into conflicts. Note that pypi treats “-” and “_” as the same thing, beware of name clashes version This is the version number of your package. Most packages follow semver. At a high level its three numbers separated by a that follow the format. It’s a common courtesy to only break APIs on major changes, new releases on minor, and fixes on patch. This can become much more blurry in practice so checkout semver.org. py_modules Typically most packages use the argument combin…