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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...