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- 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] LinkedIn Post from Tarry 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...

Moving into 2020 I have been really leaning on using purple as my theme color everywhere more and more. Its time for an update to my personal site, not just because it feels plain, not just because the cover art I am using for dev.to doesn’t fit my current card layout, but because I feel inspired and I want to. Starting point # [1] [2] This is what we are working with. It has been my card design for at least a year now. Its not bad but, its a bit play, doesnt fit my new cover art style, and that date is not working over top of the cover art text. - plain - cover art does not fit - I am not digging the date on cover art that also has text Colors # [3] I have been really into using a deep purple lately. It is a neutral color that does not get enough respect, i.e. it’s not used as frequently and kinda stands out when used. How I pick colors # [4] I am really bad at picking colors that go well together so for this I punt to utilizing others who have a better eye for this. I c...

It was so easy to get a professional looking navbar with just 3 lines of code. This package seriously is so usable on mobile it is ridiculous. I found this package from day-4 [1] of the 100 days of gatsby challenge. It is by the wonderful man who brought us gatsbyjs Kyle Mathews, so you know its gotta be good. install react-headroom # [2] installation is easy npm i react-headroom Import Headroom # [3] There was no instructions for es6 style imports that are common with gatsbyjs sites like mine, but it was intuitive to figure out. import Headroom from 'react-headroom' Using Headroom # [4] Simply wrap your existing content, Nav in my case, with the <Headroom /> component and your off to the races. The content will pop back into view when you scroll past then back up. <Headroom> <-- Your content goes here --> </Headroom> See it in action # [5] I think this simple package completely changes the ux of your site on mobile. You can get that sticky nav out of the way, but its still...

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I finally fixed my Styled-Components in gatsby.js. I am starting a redesign of my website. I have started cross posting to dev.to [1] more regularly. With that I have been making more detailed cover images at the recommended 1000x420. These images get cut off on my own site, which is a bit ridiculous to have my own content not look right on my own site. But before we start a heavy redesign I have a small issue that has plagued the site for at least a year! I have a small issue that has plagued the site for at least a year! I have been using styled components in my gatsby.js site for about a year now. And it has been plagued by styled-components not being in the ssr causing some jank in the styles being loaded. You can see it in the lighthouse performance report below. It generally loads super quick, and is only caused on first load. Anything using the gatsby <Link/> component typically is fine and unaffected by the issue. The fix # [2] The fix was so simple it was only 2 lines t...

Netlify # [1] I have happily had my personal site waylonwalker.com [2] hosted on netlify for nearly 2 years now. In fact I have hosted about a dozen different toy projects to play with on there, 4 of which have gone far enough to get a custom domain name. They are fast to deploy and consistently do so on every git push to main. Zeit # [3] I have recently started playing with zeit again. I really like their cli tool, its dead simple and makes sense. I tried the netlify one early on and dont think I really gave it much of a chance. I was able to backup a site we were modifying by saving everything locally (literally control+s) and running now in the command line. While I was on the site I realized that when switching to gatsby v2 I had deployed it to now.sh while testing, before cutting over to the updated one on netlify. It has been building every version since without issue! It has been building every version since without issue! What I am using # [4] - gatsby - forestry.io ...