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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. 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 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,, and. I often also scope the 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. Most YAML can be expressed inline with JSON syntax.... Mar 16, 2020 If you’re new t…

If we take a look at the release notes I see one major feature improvement on the list, auto-discovery of hooks. This one comes a bit surprising as it was just casually mentioned in #435 Think pytest As mentioned in #435 this is the model that pytest uses. Not all plugins automatically start doing things right out of the box but require a CLI argument. simplicity It feels a bit crazy that simply installing a package will change the way that your pipeline gets executed. I do like that it requires just a bit less reaching into the framework stuff for the average user. Most folks will be able to write in the catalog and nodes without much change to the rest of the project. Implementation Reading through the docs, they show us that we can make our hooks automatically register by adding a endpoint that points to a singleton instance of our hook. from the docs Careful with the singletons hook authors beware I will be a bit cautious before installing a plugin that is automatically registered.…

Caution None of the testproject.io urls resolve anymore in JAN 2025, I removed all of the broken links. As I continue to build out waylonwalker.com I sometimes run into some errors that are not caught because I do not have good testing implemented. I want to explore some integration testing options using GitHub’s actions. Running integration tests will not prevent bugs from happening completely, but it will allow me to quickly spot them and rollback. 🤔 What to test first? The very first thing that comes to my mind is anything that is loaded or ran client-side. Two things quickly came to mind here. I run gatsby so most of my content is statically rendered, and it yells at me if something isn’t as expected. For performance reasons I lazy load cards on my blogroll, loading all of the header images gets heavy and kills lighthouse (if anyone actually cares). I am also loading some information from the top open-source libraries that I have created. To prevent the need to rebuild the whole si…

Today I setup a new machine on Digital Ocean to use with TestProject.io, Here are my installation notes. envsubst <.github/ci/docker-compose.yml > docker-compose.yml

When learning a new skill it’s important to practice along the way. In order for me to show up to practice I need to make it easy to show up. An easy way to show up to practice with python is to use an online repl. With these you can try out something quick. Sometimes I see snippets from blogs or tweets and I need to try the out for myself to really understand. When learning a new skill it’s important to practice along the way. In order for me to show up to practice I need to make it easy to show up. An easy way to show up to practice with python is to use an online repl. With these, you can try out something quick. Sometimes I see snippets from blogs or tweets and I need to try them out for myself to really understand. Three online REPLS Here are three different options that I have used in the past to try out something at some various levels. I am sure there are plenty more, but these are three that I have tried. I am not covering all of them, because It’s been a while since I have us…

I am exploring a kedro catalog meta data hook, these are some notes about what I am thinking. Process metadata will be attached to the dataset object under a attribute metadata will be updated metadata will be empty until a pipeline is ran with the hook on optionally a function to add metadata will be added metadata will be stored in a file next to the meta Problems This Hook Should solve what datasets have a columns with in the name what datasets were updated after last tuesday which pipeline node created this dataset how many rows are in this dataset (without reloading all datasets) implementation details metadata will be attached to each dataset as a dictionary list/dict comprehensions can be used to make queries Metadata to Capture try pandas method -> try spark -> try dict/list -> none column names length Null count created_by node name Database? Is there an easy way to create a nosql database in memory from a a list of dictionaries? list-dict-DB dataset TinyDB

mypy Mypy’s config parser seems to be one of the most complex. This is likely in part to it having the largest backwards compatability of all projects that I looked at. mypy/config_parser flake8 options/config.py black black portray only uses pyproject.toml portray/config.py interrogate only uses pyproject.toml

I recently added a button to my blog, and subsequently my posts on DEV.to. It’s the best thing that I have done for it in a while. It makes it so easy to do quick edits. finding errors I refer back to my old posts quite a bit, sometimes I find errors in them. Honestly most of the time its too much effort to load up my editor make the change and and. It’s not much, but when I am referring to my own post generally I am just trying to get something done and don’t have time for that. The slug The slug that I am getting from gatsby is formatted as. Note the trailing slash and missing file extension, thats where the comes in. The Full Link GitHub makes it super easy to form a URL that puts you right into edit mode on the exact post you are looking for. This is format for the URL… you can always figure it out easily by clicking edit on one. The Final Result Wrapping that URL up in a short snippet gave me the following result. I know better than hard coding the GitHub url in, but I did it anyw…

When first learning to code its very common to hard code everything right into the code. This happens with most folks in just about any language. Whether its HTML or markdown for front end content, or even hardcoding parameters in our backend languages like python, or node.js. 🤷‍♀️ What’s wrong with hard coding everything? Hard coding everything right into your code makes it really hard for non-technical collaborators to join. It makes it nearly impossible to hand websites off to clients without needing to come back for routine updates. The cms generally come with a rich content editor that feels more like something most folks are used to. There are buttons for changing the font, font-size, adding images, bold, italics, etc. Sometimes I don’t feel technical Even when you are developing for a technical audience there is a layer of polish that comes from giving them a nice interface to edit their content in. YouTube doesn’t have you manually inserting records into the database to add a c…