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Quick Progress Bars in python using TQDM

tqdm is one of my favorite general purpose utility libraries in python. It allows me to see progress of multipart processes as they happen. I really like this for when I am developing something that takes some amount of time and I am unsure of performance. It allows me to be patient when the process is going well and will finish in sufficient time, and allows me to 💥 kill it and find a way to make it perform better if it will not finish in sufficient time.

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Add a simple Progress bar!

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Clean up Your Data Science with Named Tuples

If you are a regular listener of TalkPython or PythonBytes you have hear Michael Kennedy talk about Named Tuples many times, but what are they and how do they fit into my data science workflow.

As you graduate your scripts into modules and libraries you might start to notice that you need to pass a lot of data around to all of the functions that you have created. For example if you are running some analysis utilizing sales, inventory, and pricing data. You may need to calculate total revenue, inventory on hand. You may need to pass these data sets into various models to drive production or pricing based on predicted volumes.

Here we setup functions that can load data from the sales database. Assume that we also have similar...

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Background Tasks in Python for Data Science

This post is intended as an extension/update from background tasks in python. I started using background the week that Kenneth Reitz released it. It takes away so much boilerplate from running background tasks that I use it in more places than I probably should. After taking a look at that post today, I wanted to put a better data science example in here to help folks get started.

This post is intended as an extension/update from background tasks in python. I started using background the week that Kenneth Reitz released it. It takes away so much boilerplate from running background tasks that I use it in more places than I probably should. After taking a look at that post today, I wanted to put a better data science example in here to help folks get started.

I use it in more places than I probably should

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Autoreload in Ipython

I have used %autoreload for several years now with great success and 🔥 rapid reloads. It allows me to move super fast when developing libraries and modules. They have made some great updates this year that allows class modules to be automatically be updated.

🔥 Blazing Fast

💥 Keeps me in the comfort of my text editor

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3 min read
python

Keyboard Driven VSCode

Throw that mouse Away its time to setup some keyboard shortcuts.

These sortcuts were the baseline for switching from tmux/vim to vscode. Most folks posts I was able to find gave great tips on replacing vim, but very few have focused on the hackability of tmux. tmux allows me to rapidly fire up a workspace, create new windows and splits. Then When I switch tasks I can leave that workspace open and and jump right back in later exactly where I left off. There is nothing quite like it. The shortcuts listed here make the transition a bit better. The worst thing I found when using vscode at first was no way to switch between the terminal and editor without the mouse. This first set of keybindings solve that issue.

The worst thing I found when using vscode at first was no way to switch between the terminal and editor without the mouse.

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Realistic Git Workflow

My git workflow based on real life. Its not always clean and simple.

sometimes things get messy

pull 👉 branch 👉 format 👉 work👉 add 👉 commit 👉 pull 👉 rebase 👉 push

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7 min read
git

Forestry.io

Testing out forestry.io

I still ♥️ your product dont be

forestry is simple

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Rewrite History with Git

Rewrite History with Git

git reset -- <file>

rage unstage to wipte out history of staged commit

git reset --hard <file>

Undo file #

  • rage quit
  • git reset HEAD~n
    • removes modifications
    • keeps hitsory of changes and undoes them
  • git checkout HEAD~n –

    • keeps modifications

      removes history

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git

It's not all about winning

This is my story into data science.

I am addicted to the process of learning and improving my skills nearly to a fault. The reason I say nearly is because my addiction is fueled with results. I crave the output of my work enhance the work of others. I jump with joy as I see users gain insights they could have never imagined before. My mouth starts watering as I see their boring repetitive data mining activites be completed in a matter of seconds, opening up their mind to focus on their expertise. The day I stop learning will be the day that I start looking for another career path.

It’s not all about winning.

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Update Git User

This morning I log into my VCS and check activity on my projects to find that someone else has been very active on my projects fo the last few weeks. I quicklyhover over the missing avatar to find that It’s Me. What’s wrong here, why do I look like two different people throughout the day! upon further investigation I see the issue. while setting up a new terminal environment I mistyped my email address by one character. After much searching and a few failed attempts I was able to fix it by following an article no longer available (2021) from https://help.github.com/articles.

Clone the repo, note it must be a --bare clone.

git clone --bare https://github.com/user/repo.git cd...

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2019 goals

The year of intenionality

This is a follow up to my previous post 2018-retrospective

This year I will become more productive, by intensionally working on a well thought out plan, learning the right technologies, and leave behind a positive legacy.

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2018 Retrospective

2018 was a year of many ups and downs, and learning to deal with a whole new set of problems professionally and at home. In 2018 I logged in to my first Linux system, setup my own webserver, data pipelines, database. I learned to use react and d3. Stepped up my python, javascript, and sql.

At home the doctor appointments keep piling in. While I am learning to deal with it all there were several times throughout the year that I was very overwhelmed with everything and broke down.

Here are the goals I had listed out for 2018 and how I faired at completing them.

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Do More of What Brings You Joy

Today I want to take some time to talk about the things that make me happy in my work environment. This is completely free-flow off the cuff, but are things that I do that make me happy, not having them would definitely be a deal breaker for me .

A positive work atmosphere goes a long ways. We all have enough negativity going on in our lives that is out of our control accepting any negativity in the workplace is a no go for me. There was a point in which I was suffering a lot of negativity at work. This began to trickle into every part of life, and it became hard to see positivity anywhere. My wife not only noticed this, but put a polite request in for change. It was definitely a low point and she could tell tell that my work life was not helping anything.

Throw out the negativity - courtesy 3 min read

D3 Day 5

select rowid, key, raw, store_time, expire_time, access_time, access_count, tag, size, mode, filename from Cache where key=‘e3cd37c97980ab2c’; ’e3cd37c97980ab2c’ ’e3cd37c97980ab2c' select rowid, key, raw, store_time, expire_time, access_time, access_count, tag, size, mode, filename from Cache where key=‘c14050404a107d5e’;

For what we are creating in these posts d3 is way overkill and very verbose, but I need to start somewhere! These are just stepping stones into real custom visualizations that cannot be done in any other tool today. I still cannot explain how excited I am to say “I created that in d3!!!”

D3 Day 4

D3 Day 4

For what we are creating in these posts d3 is way overkill and very verbose, but I need to start somewhere! These are just stepping stones into real custom visualizations that cannot be done in any other tool today. I still cannot explain how excited I am to say “I created that in d3!!!”

Today I will be learning about d3 scales, and adding them to the bar chart that we created yesterday. Follow along as I try to create something interesting.

maybe a few days ago…. give me a break I have a lot of other priorities

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D3 Day 3

D3 Day 3

I recently subscribed to Ben Clinkinbeard’s learn D3.js in 5 days, and am currently on day 3. I read through the first 2 days, and felt fairly comfortable with selecting elements, so I did not follow along on the first two days. I probably should have, but there are only so many hours in the day.

D3 is the ubiquitous dynamic visualization library for building custom interactive visualizations on the web. It is a bit low level, and more verbose than many other libraries that build upon it, but if you want full control D3 is the way to go. I have used a few libraries built upon d3 in the past and have been very happy with the results. For now I want to start learning a bit about how d3 works. I know that learning it is going to take a long time, so I want to start working on some simple examples now in order to build my understanding so that I can learn quickly when I am ready to dive in. If I never decide I need to take the deep dive into d3, I think understanding how it works will...

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FlexBox

I recently finished up the flexbox-zombies course to learn more about flexbox, and to become proficient with it. I can truly say that this course has changed the way that I create layouts. Flexbox is very intuitive now. What this course does really well at is explaining the concepts and hitting you with a ton of examples that you can work through really quickly.

A clip from the final round against Dave

Flexbox requires a wrapper container to work I will refer to this as the flex container, and the items in that container as items.

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Vim Notes

norcalli/neovim-plugin

python-lsp/python-lsp-server

I have gone quite awhile without using c and instead using d. The reason that I started using c is because it automatically places you into insert mode. This not only saves me one keystroke for commands such as diwi is now ciw, but it also works with the repeat . command!!! This is huge. When refactoring a document I had been creating a macro to change one word to another, using...

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Llms

Help language models understand and surface my work accurately.

Name: Waylon Walker
Aliases: waylonwalker, _waylonwalker

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