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GitHub actions are an amazing tool that allows us to run code based on triggers inside of our repo. Their is a large and growing community of actions inside the marketplace to use with very little effort. Best of all they are free for public repositories, and private repos have a very generous free tier. h2 img { width: 100%; box-shadow: .5rem .5rem 3rem #141F2D, -.5rem -.5rem 3rem rgba(255,255,255,.1);} img{ max-width: 100% !important;} I have been diving deep into Github actions for about a month now and they are wicked good! They allow you to run any sort of arbitrary code based on events in your repo, webhooks, or schedules. They are very reasonably priced. The interface that GitHub hs developed for them is top-notch! It’s so good I have done 90% of my editing of them right from github.com. TLDR # [1] some interaction to your repository triggers code to run. [2] # [3] The online editor for actions is pretty amazing. When creating a new workflow it automatically sets up a ...

Github actions are written in configuration files using the YAML syntax. YAML is a superset of JSON. Most YAML can be expressed inline with JSON syntax. Similar to python YAML is whitespace driven by whitespace rather than brackets tags. The argument for using YAML for configuration files such as actions is that it is more human-readable and editable. It’s much easier to see the whitespace layout than it is to get closing brackets correct. For actions, I believe this is mostly true. I don’t see any use case to get past 3-5 indents, which is completely manageable. Can I just say that I learned more than I realized about YAML by writing this article Arrays and Objects # [1] In YAML or JSON, the most basic containers for data are arrays, a 1D list of things, and objects, for key-value pairs. Arrays # [2] The start of an array container is signified with a leading -. This is probably one of the big things I didn’t understand about YAML before writing this post, but hats off to the ...

Today I learned how to diff between two branches. git diff feature..main Sometimes we get a little git add . && git commit -m "WIP" happy and mistakenly commit something that we just can’t figure out. This is a good way to figure out what the heck has changed on the current branch compared to any other branch. Example # [1] Let’s create a new directory, initialize git [2] and toss some content into a readme. mkdir git-diff git init echo "hello there" > readme.md git add . && git commit -m "hello there" cat readme.md After all of that, we have a git repository on our local machine with a single file readme.md that contains the following. hello there Create a branch and ✍ edit # [3] Let’s checkout a new branch called Waylon and change the word there to Waylon in our readme.md file, then diff it. git checkout -b Waylon echo "hello Waylon" > readme.md git add . && git commit -m "hello Waylon" git diff - hello there + hello waylon At this point we have one commit. Things are real...

This is a quickstart to getting a new kedro [1] pipeline up and running. After this article you should be able to understand how to get started with kedro [1]. You can learn more about this Hello World Example [2] in the docs [2] 🧹 Install Kedro [1] 🛢 Create the Example Pipeline 💨 Run the example 📉 Show the pipeline visualization Create a Virtual Environment [3] # [4] I use conda to control my virtual environments and will create a new environment called kedro_iris with the following command. note the latest compatible version of python is 3.7. EDIT: as of kedro 0.16.0 kedro supports up to 3.8 conda create -n kedro_iris python=3.8 -y [5] Options Activate your conda environment # [6] I try to keep my base environment as clean as possible. I have ran into too many issues installing things in the base environment. Almost always its some dependency that starts causing issues making it even harder to realize where its coming from as I never even installed it in base. source...

- Learn the business - Learn Git [1] - Your code does not need to be amazing - Keep Learning Learn Git # [2] You dont have to start out as a git wizard with the cleanest possible commit history. At first dont let yourself get too wrapped up in it, the most important part is that you make commits. You will find needs for more advanced stuff later. git add . git commit -m "FEAT added new function to calculate revenue by product family" git push Get comfortable with this, then learn how to branch, rebase, stash, etc… Your code does not need to be amazing # [3] Get the job done. Keep it in small bite size pieces. Make readable function definitions and variable names. You will thank yourself for naming things well later. Readability counts more than performance in most cases of data science. If it gets the job done try not to over worry about things like performance. A few extra seconds to clean a dataset or build a model is not worth hours of your time. As you go you will have c...

I am working through Wes Bos’s beginnerjavascript.com/ [1] I just hit module 18 on hoisting. It’s something that I always knew was there, Its not something I typically see used or use myself. Do you Hoist? # [2] Do you have any use cases that you use hoising? Why? It seems like a really cool feature in any language that uses it, but I dont really notice it in use. What is Hoising # [3] There are many articles that cover this in far more depth, but its the idea that variable declarations and functions are defined before they are executed. This means that it doesnt matter if you call a function before or after it is defined. Hoisting # [4] console.log(`Hello ${getUser()}`) function getUser() { return 'Waylon' } Running this code will log out “Waylon” What about variable hoisting # [5] I am most familiar with python which does not variable hoist so this one kinda confused me at first. It only hoists the variable declaration not the value of the variable. It defines whether th...

What is Kedro [1] This is my original what-is-kedro article. There is a brand new one --- Kedro is an open source data pipeline framework. It provides guardrails to set your project up right from the start without needing to know deeply how to setup your own python library for data pipelining. It includes really great ways to manipulate catalogs and pipelines. This article will cover the 10K view of kedro, future articles will dive deper into each one. kedro [2] is an open-source data pipeline framework. It provides guardrails to set your project up right from the start without needing to know deeply how to set up your own python library for data pipelining. It includes great ways to manipulate catalogs and pipelines. This article will cover the 10K view of kedro [2], future articles will dive deeper into each one. Libraries # [3] Currently, kedro [2] is broken down into 3 different libraries. 💎 kedro [2] 📉 kedro-viz [4] 🏗 kedro-docker [5] kedro [2] # [6] [7] kedro [2] ...

Getting a custom scrollbar on your site makes it stand out a bit compared to the very plain stock one that are on most sites. This is how I set mine up on my gatsby site. Inspired by Wes Bos’s new uses.tech [1] I wanted a custom scrollbar on my personal site. I had tried to do it in the past, but gave up after it was not working. Looking at the Source # [2] Since uses.tech [1] is open source I jumped on github, searched for scroll and found this layout.js [3]. Copy it to my own component # [4] My first step was to take his css and copy it into a styled component for my entire layout, but it failed. I do not fully understand why. None of the custom style came through at all. If you know please leave me a comment. [5] I suspect for some reason it has to do with attatching to the html [6] element inside of a styled-component. I think wes was able to get around this by using createGlobalStyle. But I was still using much of the default gatsby template, so I did not have a createG...

“Don’t waste your time learning everything.” [1] Inspired by this linkedIn post [2] I felt that this comment was very powerful. Here are my 2 cents. Be Productive # [3] Stick to what you know, and learn a little bit of something new every day. If what you know is how to use Excel like a boss, don’t fee ashamed that you are missing something. Be proud and use what you know. Don’t Stagnate # [4] Take small steps enhance what you know now with something new that you get you closer to where you want to be. If you need something that sci-py offers learn how to load in data and use that part. If your sick of waiting for IT to pull data out of the database so you can use it, learn that. Dont Overwhelm Yourself # [5] If you try to drop everything you know now and jump whole hog into these new flashy things its not going to work. Learn what you need to know. New things crop up very often. They will come and go. Some things will get traction, some will never get much traction past an...