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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. 🎙 Listen to the full episode [1]. So Inspirational # [2] I was particularly inspired by @chantastic [3] episode 103 of the react podcast with @ParissAthena [4]. 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 ...

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 [1]. 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. This has been by far the easiest way to commit back to a repo that I have seen. Other patterns often require fully setting up the git [2] user and everything. While it’s not all that hard, this action already has all of that covered. You must give it a commit message and thats it. Optionally you can configure a number of things. Its possible to configure the commit_user_name, commit_user_email, and commit_author. I often also scope the file_pattern to a certain subset of files. --- Getting Started with GitHub Actions Github actions are written in configuration files using the YAML syntax. YAML is a superset of JSON...

If we take a look at the release notes [1] I see one major feature improvement on the list, auto-discovery of hooks. ## Major features and improvements * Enabled auto-discovery of hooks implementations coming from installed plugins. This one comes a bit surprising as it was just casually mentioned in #435 [2] [2] Think pytest # [3] As mentioned in #435 [2] this is the model that pytest uses. Not all plugins automatically start doing things right out of the box but require a CLI argument. simplicity # [4] It feels a bit crazy that simply installing a package will change the way that your pipeline gets executed. I do like that it requires just a bit less reaching into the framework stuff for the average user. Most folks will be able to write in the catalog and nodes without much change to the rest of the project. Implementation # [5] Reading through the docs [6], they show us that we can make our hooks automatically register by adding a kedro.hooks endpoint that points to a ...

Caution None of the testproject.io urls resolve anymore in JAN 2025, I removed all of the broken links. As I continue to build out waylonwalker.com [1] 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. --- 🤔 What to test first? # [2] 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 information from the top open-source libraries that I have created. To prevent the need...

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 update sudo apt install docker-ce # docker-compose sudo curl -L "https://g...

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. Three online REPLS # [1] 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 sin...

I am exploring a kedro catalog meta data hook, these are some notes about what I am thinking. Process # [1] - metadata will be attached to the dataset object under a .metadata attribute - metadata will be updated after_node_run - metadata will be empty until a pipeline is ran with the hook on - optionally a function to add metadata will be added - metadata will be stored in a file next to the filepath - meta Problems This Hook Should solve # [2] - what datasets have a columns with sales in the name - what datasets were updated after last tuesday - which pipeline node created this dataset - how many rows are in this dataset (without reloading all datasets) implementation details # [3] - metadata will be attached to each dataset as a dictionary - list/dict comprehensions can be used to make queries Metadata to Capture # [4] try pandas method -> try spark -> try dict/list -> none - column names - length - Null count - created_by node name Database? # [5] Is there...

mypy # [1] Mypy’s config parser seems to be one of the most complex. This is likely in part to it having the largest backwards compatability of all projects that I looked at. mypy/config_parser [2] flake8 # [3] options/config.py [4] black # [5] black [6] portray # [7] - only uses pyproject.toml portray/config.py [8] interrogate # [9] - only uses pyproject.toml References: [1]: #mypy [2]: https://github.com/python/mypy/blob/master/mypy/config_parser.py [3]: #flake8 [4]: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8/blob/master/src/flake8/options/config.py [5]: #black [6]: https://github.com/psf/black/blob/master/src/black/__init__.py#L277-L331 [7]: #portray [8]: https://github.com/timothycrosley/portray/blob/main/portray/config.py [9]: #interrogate