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Apr 2026 | 40 posts

Black Tech Pipeline

I was particularly inspired by @chantastic episode 103 of the react podcast with @ParissAthena. They spoke about the black tech pipeline as well as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Pariss is quite an inspiration. She has done so much work to create a better place for POC in tech. I like that not only is she helping them get jobs but acting as a mentor for their first few months on the job to make sure that they are able to find their place and fit in.

Based on an episode of react podcast.

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Review of the 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.

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.

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2 min read
actions

Integration testing with Python, TestProject.io, and GitHub Actions

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.

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...

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8 min read
python

New Machine for developing Tests with TestProject.io

Today I setup a new machine on Digital Ocean to use with TestProject.io, Here are my installation notes.

apt update && apt upgrade -y apt install zsh chsh zsh sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)" curl -fsSL https://starship.rs/install.sh | bash echo 'eval "$(starship init zsh)"' >> ~/.zshrc # python sudo apt update sudo apt install python3-pip -y echo 'alias python=python3' >> ~/.zshrc echo 'alias pip=pip3' >> ~/.zshrc # pipx apt install python3-venv pip install pipx pipx install black pipx install shell-functools pip install ipython # docker sudo apt update sudo apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg-agent software-properties-common curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add - sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable" sudo apt...

1 min read
linux

🐍 Practice Python Online

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.

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 used one other...

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2 min read
python

Kedro Catalog

I am exploring a kedro catalog meta data hook, these are some notes about what I am thinking.

try pandas method -> try spark -> try dict/list -> none

Is there an easy way to create a nosql database in memory from a a list of dictionaries?

Edit On GitHub

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.

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 git add and git commit. 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 that I am getting from gatsby is formatted as /blog/this-post/. Note the trailing slash and missing file extension, thats where the ${slug.slice(0, -1)}.md comes in.

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2 min read
blog

Why use a cms

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.

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.

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3 min read
webdev