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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 # [1] 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 :%s/foo/bar/g, the final g means all of the foos, not just the first one on the line. making it better # [2] I have a keybinding in my init.vim that will allow me to search for a pattern with the usual / character, page through them as normal with n and N, but when I press <C-R> it will populate the replace command for me so that all I need to do ...

What does it take to create an installable python package that can be hosted on pypi? What is the minimal python package # [1] - 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 # [2] . ├── setup.py └── my_pipeline.py setup.py # [3] from setuptools import setup setup( name="", version="0.1.0", py_modules=["my_pipeline", ], install_requires=["kedro"], ) name # [4] 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 # [5] This is the version number of your package. Most packages follow semver [6]. At a high level its three numbers separated by a . that follow the format major.minor.patc...

I do much of my work from tmux, I love it so much that I want to setup some functionality that puts me in tmux even if I didn’t ask for it. Bash Function # [1] Bash function to check if the shell is in a tmux session. in_tmux () { if [ -n "$TMUX" ]; then return 0 else return 1 fi } Using the bash function # [2] I often open up vim to do some quite edits, but before I know it I have several splits open and I need access to another shell utility, but I forgot to start in tmux. This function makes sure tht I start in tmux everytime. Using if_tmux to ensure vim is opened in tmux. vim () { in_tmux \ && nvim \ || bash -c "\ tmux new-session -d;\ tmux send-keys nvim Space +GFiles C-m;\ tmux -2 attach-session -d; " } I am not quite sure if this is proper use of the && and ||, let me know if you have a better way to do one thing if in_tmux returns true and another if it returns faslse. References: [1]: #bash-function [2]: #using-the-bash-function

If you are like me, you have created a macro or two that is pure glory, and you forget how you made it after a day or so, or you immediately want to store it away as a custom keybinding. As with most things with vim, it’s easy to do once you understand it. Creating a Macro # [1] One of the earliest things we all learn to do in vim is to create macros, custom sets of functionality stored in a register that can be replayed later. To create a macro, get into normal mode, then type q followed by a letter that you want to store the macro under. qq Note: a common throw-away macro register is q because it’s easy to hit qq from normal mode to start recording. Replaying a Macro # [2] Macros can be replayed using @ followed by the letter that you stored the macro under. @q Registers # [3] Registers are nothing more than a single character key mapping to a value of some text. As you yank, delete, or create macros in vim, it automatically stores text into these registers. When you hit...

Web browsers are a black hole of productivity. I try to use them as little as possible when it is time to focus. I try to use help, ?, or ?? with ipython, or –help at the command line as much as possible. What about that time I am trying to see what my online friends are posting on their sites? I used to used google reader quite heavily before that was taken down. Newsboat # [1] I am going to give a terminal rss reader a try for a bit and see how that goes for me. I have really struggled to get into an rss reader since google reader died. installation # [2] I installed with the reccomended snap for Ubuntu. sudo snap install newsboat Adding feeds # [3] super simple Running help for newsboat directed me towards their config files at the bottom. ❯ newsboat --help newsboat r2.22 usage: /snap/newsboat/3849/usr/local/bin/newsboat [-i <file>|-e] [-u <urlfile>] [-c <cachefile>] [-x <command> ...] [-h] -e, --export-to-opml export OPML feed to stdout -r, --refresh-on-start refresh f...

As projects grow patterns that worked early on break and we need to change things to make the project easier to work with, and more welcoming to new developers. git # [2] Before you start mucking up a project with wild commands at the terminal check that you have a super clean git status. We may make some mistakes and need a way to undo 100’s files and git makes it really easy if you start with a clean history. git status If we are ready to begin work we should see a response like this. On branch main nothing to commit, working tree clean It would also be wise to do this inside of a branch. The minute you try to do something wild in your working branch someone will walk by and ask you to do a five-minute task, but your deep in refactoring and haven’t left yourself a clean way back. git branch my-big-refactor grepr # [3] Time for the meat of this refactor replacing text across our project. I often will pop this bash function into my terminal session and tweak it as needed. This...

I use my ipython terminal daily. It’s my go to way of running python most of the time. After you use it for a little bit you will probably want to setup a bit of your own configuration. install ipython # [1] Activate your virtual environment [2] of choice and pip install it. Any time you are running your project in a virtual environment, you will need to install ipython inside it to access those packages from ipython. pip install ipython You are using a virtual environment right? Virtual environments like venv or conda can save you a ton of pain down the road. profile_default # [3] When you install ipython you start out with no config at all. Runnign ipython profile create will start a new profile called profile_default that contains all of the default configuration. ipython profile create This command will create a directory ~/.ipython/profile_default multiple configurations # [4] You can run multiple configurations by naming them with ipython profile create [profile_name...

I’ve grown tired of the standard ipython prompt as it doesn’t do much to give me any useful information. The default one gives out a line number that only seems to add anxiety as I am working on a simple problem and see that number grow to several hundred. I start to question my ability 🤦‍♂️. Configuration # [1] If you already have an ipython config you can move on otherwise check out this post on creating an ipython config. Ipython-Config [2] The Dream Prompt # [3] I want something similar to the starship prompt I am using in the shell. I want to be able to quickly see my python version, environment name, and git [4] branch. - python version - active environment - git branch [5] This is my zsh prompt I am using for inspiration Basic Prompt # [6] This is mostly boilerplate that I found from various google searches, but this gets me a basic green chevron as my prompt. from IPython.terminal.prompts import Prompts, Token class MyPrompt(Prompts): def in_prompt_tokens(self...

One thing we all dread is mundane work of getting started, and all the hoops it takes to get going. This year I want to post more often and I am taking some steps towards making it easier for myself to just get started. When I start a new post I need to cd into my blog directory, start neovim in a markdown file with a clever name, copy some frontmatter boilerplate, update the post date, add tags, a description, and a cover. Todo List for starting a post # [1] - frontmatter template - Title - slug - tags - date - cover - description - create markdown file - open in neovim Lets Automate this # [2] This aint no proper cli # [3] hot and fast As with many thing running behind the scenes on this site, I am the one and only user, I have limited time, so this is going to be a bit hot and fast. Let’s create a file called new-post. start the script new-post #!python # new-post 👆 Works on my machine If this were something that had more users than me I would probably use some...

In python data science we often will reach for pandas a bit more than necessary. While pandas can save us so much there are times where there are alternatives that are much simpler. The itertoolsandmore-itertools` are full of cases of this. This post is a walkthrough of me solving a problem with more-itertools rather than reaching for a for loop, or pandas. I am working on a one-line-link expander for my blog. I ended up doing it, just by modifying the markdown with python. I first split the post into lines with content.split('\n'), then look to see if the line appears to be just a link. One more safety net that I wanted to add was to check if there was whitespace around the line, this could not simply be done in a list comprehension by itself. I need just a bit of knowledge of the surrounding lines, enter more-itertools. simplified rendering function # [1] I have a function that will check to see if the line should be expanded, then render the correct template. Fist step is to ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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://waylonwalk...

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...

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...

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...