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This is not a flaky works half the time kind of plugin, it’s a seriously smooth editing experience. I’ve just started using pyflyby, and it is solid so far. I have automatic imports on every save of a python file in neovim, and automatic imports on every command in ipython. I can’t tell you how pumped I am for this, and how good its felt to use over the past few weeks. It’s glorious. YouTube video # [1] Listen to me rant on how great pyflyby is https://youtu.be/2QW5DJiEJH4 Give the video a watch, I did not have noise-cancelling on in obs. My apologies for the background hum and the mic stand bumps. I did my best to fix them up. Installation # [2] How to install pyflyby for automatic python imports pyflyby is hosted on pypi, so you can get it with pip. I have had no issues installing it on 3.8+ so far. pip install pyflyby Configuration setup with stow # [3] always stow your dotfiles If you’re going to configure any of your tools the first thing you should do is set it up w...

If you are running vim autocmd’s without a group, you’re killing your performance. Granted your probably not sourcing your vimscript files with autocmd’s too often, but every time you source that vimscript you are adding another command that needs to run redundantly. https://youtu.be/2ITTn4Dl0lc This is what I had # [1] Not silky smooth For WAAY too long I have had something like this in my vimrc or init.vim. It formats my python for me on every save, works great except if I source my dotfiles more than once I start adding how many times black runs. autocmd bufwritepre *.py execute 'Black' Why is a bare autocmd bad # [2] let me demonstrate Lets create a new file called format.vim and give it the :so %. Works great, it starts telling me that its formatting. autocmd bufwritepre *.py :echo("formatting with black") too-many-formats [3] BUT as every time I give it the :so % it formats an extra time on every single save. Setting up an augroup # [4] I’ve been told I need an aug...

I often review Pull requests from the browser as it just makes it so easy to see the diffs and navigate through them, but there comes a time when the diffs get really big and hard to follow. That’s when its time to bring in the comforts of vim. https://youtu.be/5NKaZFavM0E Plugins needed # [1] This all stems from the great plugin by AndrewRadev [2]. It breaks a down into a project. So rather than poping into a pager from git [3] diff, you can pipe to diffurcate and it will setup a project in a tmp directory for you and you can browse this project just like any other except it’s just a diff. Plug 'AndrewRadev/diffurcate.vim' My aliases # [4] First to quickly checkout PR’s from azure devops I have setup an alias to fuzzy select a pr and let the az command do the checkout. alias azcheckout='az repos pr checkout --id $(az repos pr list --output table | tail -n -2 | fzf | cut -d " " -f1)' Next I have a few aliases setup for checking diffs. The first one checks what is staged vs the...

I’ve gone far too long without a good setup for editing yaml files, I am missing out on autocomplete and proper diagnostics. This ends today as I setup yaml-language-server in neovim. https://youtu.be/xo4HrFoKF4c The video for this one is part of a challenge-playlist [1] I put out for myself to constantly improve my dotfiles for all of December. init.vim # [2] I have my init.vim setup to only source other modules, if you want everything in a single config, feel free to do as you wish. I broke mine up earlier this year as I doubled into nvim and am not going back. source ~/.config/nvim/plugins.vim lua require'waylonwalker.cmp' lua require'waylonwalker.lsp-config' Plugin setup # [3] You will need the following plugins. I use plug, if you don’t you will have to convert the syntax over to the plugin manager you use. neovim/nvim-lspconfig [4] is for configuring the lsp. It comes with a bunch of sane defaults for most servers, so you pretty much just have to call setup on that serv...

https://youtu.be/PQw_is7rQSw I am often in a set of tmux splits flying back and forth, accidentally close my editor, so when I come back to that split and hit my keybinds to edit files I enter them into zsh rather than into nvim like I intended. Today I am going to sand off that rough edge and get as similar behavior to nvim as I can with a couple of aliases. Make sure you check out the YouTube video to see all of my improvements. what’s an alias # [1] If you have never heard of an alias before it’s essentially a shortcut to a given command. You can pass additional flags to the underlying command and they will get passed in. Most of the time they are just shorter versions of commands that you run often or even like in this case a common muscle memory typo that occurs for you. My new alias’s for fuzzy editing files from zsh # [2] Here are the new aliases that I came up with to smooth out my workflow. These give me a similar feel to how these keys work in neovim but from zsh. #...

In honor of the neovim 0.6.0 release, I decided to do a funny skit installing neovim, and fix up my install script in the process as part of my challenge to fix up my dotfiles. I ran into one snag where I was not updating the repo that I cloned. I moved it to the directory I now keep third-party git [1] repos and set it to update with ansible. https://youtu.be/64oKLphhBuo The thing that took me the longest to realize was…. I had a path issue pointing me to an old install of the appimage over the fresh build, fixed that up and now we are on 0.7.0 nightly. Related Links # [2] https://neovim.io/ https://github.com/neovim/neovim https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/tag/v0.6.0 References: [1]: /glossary/git/ [2]: #related-links

https://youtu.be/Jq1Y48F_rOU I am challenging myself to 30 days of dotfile ricing. I have been on linux desktop for a few months now and have a pretty good workflow going, I have the coarse edits done to my workflow, but it has some rough edges that need sanded down. It’s time to squash some of those little annoyances that still exist in my setup. This is primarily going to be focused on productivity, but may have a few things to just look better. This will comprise heavily of aliases, zsh, and nvim config. Follow the YouTube channel [1] or the rss feed [2] to stay up to date. References: [1]: https://youtube.com/waylonwalker [2]: https://waylonwalker/rss/

Trying to read a .ipynb file without starting a jupyter server? jut has you covered. https://youtu.be/t8AvImnwor0 watch the video version of this post on YouTube [1] 57676ca9-23dd-4b3d-a084-293a0525eba5.mkv [2] Or watch the full thing here install # [3] jut is packaged and available on pypi so installing is as easy as pip installing it. pip install jut installing jut with pip [4] ! This is my first time including snippets of the video in the article like this, let me know what you think! examples # [5] jut https://cantera.org/examples/jupyter/thermo/flame_temperature.ipynb jut https://cantera.org/examples/jupyter/thermo/flame_temperature.ipynb --head 3 jut https://cantera.org/examples/jupyter/thermo/flame_temperature.ipynb --tail 2 running jut examples [6] what are all the commands available for jut? # [7] Take a look at the help of the jut cli to explore all the options that it offers. jut --help There is some good information on the projects readme [8] as well. getti...

Hi, Hello, I’m Waylon # [1] Husband, dad of two, and hobbyist builder of things on the internet. When I’m not wrangling data pipeline platforms or building web platforms, you’ll find me gaming [2] with my kids, making art, or skating around the neighborhood. Reliving my mechanical engineering days with my 3d printer. Winding down at the end of the day binge-watching Big Bang Theory with my wife. What I Do # [3] I’m a Senior Software Engineer who specializes in data pipelines and Python-based web platforms. I help teams turn messy data into reliable systems that actually work. Why I Built This Site # [4] from scratch I got tired of: - Build times that took forever - Node modules folders that became black holes - Bloated pages that took ages to load - SEO tools that felt like an afterthought So I built my own platform from scratch using pluggy and diskcache. It’s under-funded, over-dreamed, barely documented, and I love it. This site is my sandbox for learning, teaching, a...

I use kedro catalog create to boost my productivity by automatically generating yaml catalog entries for me. It will create new yaml files for each pipeline, fill in missiing catalog entries, and respect already existing catalog entries. It will reformat the file, and sort it based on catalog key. https://youtu.be/_22ELT4kja4 What is Kedro [1] 👆 Unsure what kedro is? Check out this post. Running Kedro Catalog Create # [2] The command to ensure there are catalog entries for every dataset in the passed in pipeline. kedro catalog create --pipeline history_nodes - Create’s new yaml file, if needed - Fills in new dataset entries with the default dataset - Keeps existing datasets untouched - it will reformat your yaml file a bit - default sorting will be applied - empty newlines will be removed CONF_ROOT # [3] Kedro will respect your CONF_ROOT settings when it creates a new catalog file, or looks for existing catalog files. You can change the location of your configuration f...