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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.

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.

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.

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I create this blog with one person in mind, 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.

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.

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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 setup.py and 27 in mini_kedro_pipeline.py.

📝 Note this is only a composable pipeline, not a full project, it does not contain a catalog or runner.

I have everything for this post hosted in this gihub repo, you can fork it, clone it, or just follow along.

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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.

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.

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.

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

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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 🐍

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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 gitui which comes with some great ways to very quickly walk through a git project.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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 conda install 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?

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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.

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What does it take to create an installable python package that can be hosted on pypi?

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.

. ├── setup.py └── my_pipeline.py

setup.py #

from setuptools import setup setup( name="", version="0.1.0", py_modules=["my_pipeline", ], install_requires=["kedro"], ) 

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.

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