Check out yetudada and their project yetudada. No description available.
Publishing rhythm
I’m impressed by quickpython from timothycrosley. A retro interactive coding environment powered by Python and nostalgia
gatsby-remark-embedder
Inspired by discourse’s link expansion I am rolling out expansions for one line links on the blog waylonwalker. I was able to find a gatsby plugin gatsby-remark-embedder 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 # This covers a couple of use cases I have with very little effort. Twitter YouTube install # This was super quick and simple to setup, the only thing that was extra was to install the plugin as well as the. enable # Thats it, now I can embed tweets and YouTube videos by just leaving the link on a single line.
Expand One Line Links
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 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 # 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 # 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. The key here is that I have to put the HTML into the markdown. It looks a bit dirty while editing and quite frankly it’s a pain to deal with. New Card # My first eight years as a working professional. First step # My first attempt was to make my…
astronomer has done a fantastic job with dag-factory. Highly recommend taking a look. Dynamically generate Apache Airflow DAGs from YAML configuration files
orchest by orchest is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves. Build data pipelines, the easy way 🛠️
gvanrossum has done a fantastic job with patma. Highly recommend taking a look. Pattern Matching
mingrammer has done a fantastic job with diagrams. Highly recommend taking a look. 🎨 Diagram as Code for prototyping cloud system architectures
Just starred svelte-actions by swyxio. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer. prototype official actions for Svelte
reasons-to-kedro
There are many reasons that you should be using kedro. If you are on a team of Data Scientists/Data Engineers processing DataFrames from many data sources should be considering a pipeline framework. Kedro is a great option that provides many benefits for teams to collaborate, develop, and deploy data pipelines What is Kedro Starter Template # Kedro makes it super easy to get started with their cli that utilizes cookiecutter under the hood. Create New Kedro Project read more about how to start your first kedro project here Collaboration # Kedro provides many tools that help teams collaborate on a single codebase. While writing monolithic scripts it can be easy to pin yourself in a corner where it is difficult to have multiple people making changes to the notebook/script at the same time. Kedro helps guide your team to break your project down into small pieces that different members of the team can work on in parallel. sharable catalog # Kedro makes it easy to collaborate with members wh…
Just starred Second-Brain by KasperZutterman. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer. A curated list of awesome Public Zettelkastens 🗄️ / Second Brains 🧠 / Digital Gardens 🌱
Just starred Repo-Roster by nastyox. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer. Shout-out supporters in your GitHub README file.
What’s New in Kedro 0.16.6
Kedro 0.16.6 is out! Let’s take a look through the release notes Deployment Docs # This is really exciting to see more deployment options coming from the kedro team. It really shows the power of the framework. The power of some of these orchestrations options is incredible. Argo Prefect Kubeflow Batch SageMaker Most of them hinge on a sweet combination of the kedro cli, docker image, and the pipeline knowing your nodes dependencies. Argo, Prefect, and Kubeflow have an interesting technique where they translate the pipeline and its dependencies from kedro to their language. Batch uses the aws cli to submit jobs, one node per job, and listen for them to complete. It will submit all nodes with completed dependencies at once, meaning that we can get some massive parallelization. I did a quick and dirty test of one of these by simulating the technique in a bash script and saw a 40 hr pipeline finish in about 1 hour. I am excited to get this working in my production workflow. Spaceflight sta…
mkdocs by mkdocs is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves. Project documentation with Markdown.
A brain dump of stories
I started making stories as kind of a brain dump a few times per day and posting them to [LinkedIn]( https://www.linkedin.com/in/waylonwalker/(https://www.linkedin.com/in/waylonwalker/). Here are the last 11 days of stories. I store all the stories on my website with the hopes of doing something with them on my own platform eventually. For now it makes it easy to make these posts. Stories 10-10-2020 - 10-21-2020 #
Check out mmchougule and their project kedro-grpc-server. Kedro gRPC Server is a Kedro plugin that creates a gRPC server for triggering and monitoring pipeline runs using a general-purpose RPC framework gRPC
Check out yetudada and their project kedro-user-testing. Discovery prototypes for user testing
The work on flynt by ikamensh. A tool to automatically convert old string literal formatting to f-strings
charmbracelet has done a fantastic job with glow. Highly recommend taking a look. Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! 💅🏻
Check out mytechnotalent and their project Python-For-Kids. A FREE comprehensive online Python development tutorial FOR KIDS utilizing an official BBC micro:bit Development Board going step-by-step into the world of Python for microcontrollers.
I’m impressed by pycon_pybadge_2020 from nnja. Initial code for Microsoft’s PyBadge at PyCon 2020
Fix git commit author
I was 20 commits into a hackoberfest PR when I suddenly realized they they all had my work email on them instead of my personal email 😱. This is the story of how I corrected my email address on 19 individual commits after already submitting for a PR. Change the email for this repo Prepare for rebasing start the rebase 🛠 Fix First wrong Commit Fix all commits Done ReCap Change the email for this repo # stop the bleeding Before anything else set the email correctly! Prepare for rebasing # First thing is to find how many commits back this mistake goes. I opened up the git log, and saw mine went back 19 commits. I rolled back 20 just to be sure. start the rebase # Now I start the rebase 20 commits back from HEAD. THis will pop you into a text file with a list of commits, for this change simply replace all with. Note for the first commit # If you want to rebase back to the start of the repo use the flag. Run git log to see where we ended up. As expected we ended up on Kiyo’s commit. So we c…
I like muesli’s project duf. Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better ‘df’ alternative
Designing a “Router” for kedro
nodes_global # I released a router-like plugin for kedro back in April 2020. This was not the first design, the idea actually came from one of the QB folks who taught me kedro nearly a year before. We were assembling our pipelines with something called. It worked fairly well but did have some issues around being set as a global variable. But… One thing in particular that it did not lend itself well to was being able to create a packagable pipeline that I could pip install and append into any of my existing pipelines. Something I am still trying to work out, maybe I don’t need this. I think I have it working for our internal pipelines and it seems like the way to go, but we don’t necessarily end up using it. Also… With this pattern all of the nodes needed to be importable by the module containing nodes_global. I find that this becomes a big hurdle for new pipelines coming from jupyter to overcome and can be most infuriating when their nodes aren’t getting ran after they added them. What…
I came across python_training from AnkurDedania, and it’s packed with great features and ideas. Intro to Python
github has done a fantastic job with renaming. Highly recommend taking a look. Guidance for changing the default branch name for GitHub repositories
Reclaim memory usage in Jupyter
Today I ran into an issue where we had a one-off script that just needed to work, but it was just chewing threw memory like nothing. It started with a colleague asking me How do I clear the memory in a Jupyter notebook, these are the steps we took to debug the issue and free up some memory in their notebook. How do I clear the memory in a Jupyter notebook? Pre check the status of memory # There are a number of ways that you can check the amount of memory on your system. The easiest is not necessarily my first go to is free… literally. check for free space Generally my first go to is a bit more graphical, and not available on a stock stystem, but far more useful….. is a terminal process explorer that shows cpu usage, mem usage, and running processes. htop First step throw more swap at it # Often before going through the process of getting a larger instance underneath the notebook you can hobble home with a bit more swap file. It may not be pretty or fast, but gets the job done in a pinc…
Strip Trailing Whitespace from Git projects
A common linting error thrown by various linters is for trailing whitespace. I most often use flake8. I generally have [pre-commit]( https://waylonwalker.com/pre-commit-is-awesome hooks setup to strip this, but sometimes I run into situations where I jump into a project without it, and my editor lights up with errors. A simple fix is to run this one-liner. One-Liner to strip whitespace # bash pre-commit is awesome I recently discovered the ✨ awesomeness that is pre-commit. I steered away from it for so long because it seemed like a big daunting thing to set up, but... Jun 5, 2020
tpope has done a fantastic job with vim-sleuth. Highly recommend taking a look. sleuth.vim: Heuristically set buffer options
actions has done a fantastic job with setup-python. Highly recommend taking a look. Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with a specific version of Python
I came across starter-workflows from actions, and it’s packed with great features and ideas. Accelerating new GitHub Actions workflows
checkout by actions is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves. Action for checking out a repo
Looking for inspiration? dotfiles by nicknisi. vim, zsh, git, homebrew, neovim - my whole world
Just starred zk by sirupsen. It’s an exciting project with a lot to offer. Zettelkasten on the command-line 📚 🔍
The work on napkin-math by sirupsen. Techniques and numbers for estimating system’s performance from first-principles
deepyaman has done a fantastic job with kedro-accelerator. Highly recommend taking a look. Kedro-Accelerator speeds up pipelines by parallelizing I/O in the background.
Chrome Extensions I use
There are many useful chrome extensions out there. I probably have way too many installed, here are four that I am currently using. This post was inspired from Chris over at daily-dev-tips LastPass Stylus Vimium hypothesis LastPass # Love it or hate it passwords are hard to manage. Everyone needs a password manager to avoid the dreaded password reuse, and to be able to quickly rotate them with a service. I use lastpass, thus it’s browser extension is my most used extension. Stylus # Stylus is an extension that allows you to add your own CSS to style pages how you want. There seems to be a full community of folks that really use this to the nth degree to style all of their commonly used sites somewhat similarly or add dark mode to sites without it. Personally I mostly use it to add my favorite syntax highlighting theme to jupyter, onedark. I’ve long lost the original author, but have posted the CSS I use in this gist Vimium # Vimium adds vim-like keybindings to chrome. I don’t use it a…
The work on find-kedro by WaylonWalker. kedro plugin to automatically construct pipelines using pytest style pattern matching
Looking for inspiration? steel-toes by WaylonWalker. a kedro hook to protect against breaking changes to data
I like htop-dev’s project htop. htop - an interactive process viewer
Creating Reusable Bash Scripts
Bash is a language that is quite useful for automation no matter what language you write in. Bash can do so many powerful system-level tasks. Even if you are on windows these days you are likely to come across bash inside a cloud VM, Continuous Integration, or even inside of docker. I have three techniques that help me write more composable bash scripts. functions Arguments positional arguments All Arguments Error Handling main script Functions # Break scripts down into reusable components Functions in bash are quite simple. They are something that I wish I would have started using long ago. They make your code much more reusable. I often use them in my aliases as well since they can simplify the process and allow more flexibility. syntax Source the file to load the function and run it from the terminal. run it outputs Arguments # Make functions a little more flexible Arguments and options are quite a bit more complex in bash. For now, we will focus on the basics which are not all that…
Three things to Automate with Python using Pandas
Here are three things that I see my non programming counterparts doing every single day. These really sum up so much of what folks do within an office. So many of us dabble in or become power users of spreadsheets without knowing there is an alternative out there that can save us time, automate boring things, and allow us to open up our minds for the part that we add value, Thinking about the data. Focus on Value Add Operations # Lets face it, stitching together spreadsheets is zero value add by itself, but if you can see something in the data and take action on it, this can be huge value add to your company. Learning just a bit of python will help focus more of your attention on “value add operations” and leave the mundane stuff to your computer. Merge a directory full of spreadsheets into one # I see this one all the time. One team gets a spreadsheet from another team once per month and they need to stich all the pieces together. Excel really opens the door for some nasty hidden bugs…
How to Install miniconda on linux (from the command line only)
miniconda is a python distribution from continuum. It’s a slimmed-down version of their very popular anaconda distribution. It comes with its own environment manager and has eased the install process for many that do not have a way to compile c-extensions. It made it much easier to install the data science stack on windows a few years ago. These days windows are much better than it was back then at compiling c-extensions. I still like its environment manager, which installs to a global directory rather than a local directory for your project. Installing miniconda on Linux # Installing miniconda on Linux can be a bit tricky the first time you do it completely from the terminal. The following snippet will create a directory to install miniconda into, download the latest python 3 based install script for Linux 64 bit, run the install script, delete the install script, then add a conda initialize to your bash or zsh shell. After doing this you can restart your shell and conda will be ready…
How to crush amazing posts on DEV
This post was inspired by a comment I left on @dsteenman’s post. {% post dsteenman/how-long-should-a-blogpost-be-2k6n %} Most of the time I prefer short as I am more likely to read the whole thing. If its setup as a series I am more likely to work my way through the whole series in a matter of a few sessions. Just my preference I will say though there are certain articles that fit well to the long format. They are articles that folks tend to come back to often as a reference again and again. Sections # layout is key Break it up Article types superpost single post series discussion Post what you want to read layout is key # Either way, you go layout is key. You are not Steven King, no matter how great of a writer you are, you are unlikely to hold attention like he can. Most folks reading blogs scan articles first. I often scan, then read. If the article is really good or pertains well to me I will read everything, otherwise, I go back and read only the sections of interest. If there are…
I like RanaEmad’s project metrics-of-awesome-api. A Node.js API with the main purpose of acting as a backend for practicing authentication in React. It enables the user to sign up, sign in and view a dashboard with his metrics of awesome through different endpoints.
If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on awesome-gpt3, created by elyase. No description available.
shreyashankar has done a fantastic job with gpt3-sandbox. Highly recommend taking a look. The goal of this project is to enable users to create cool web demos using the newly released OpenAI GPT-3 API with just a few lines of Python.
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. 🎙 Listen to the full episode. So Inspirational # 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.…
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. 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 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,, and. I often also scope the 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. Most YAML can be expressed inline with JSON syntax.... Mar 16, 2020 If you’re new t…
What’s New in Kedro 0.16.4
If we take a look at the release notes I see one major feature improvement on the list, auto-discovery of hooks. This one comes a bit surprising as it was just casually mentioned in #435 Think pytest # As mentioned in #435 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 # 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 # Reading through the docs, they show us that we can make our hooks automatically register by adding a endpoint that points to a singleton instance of our hook. from the docs Careful with the singletons # hook authors beware I will be a bit cautious before installing a plugin that is automatically reg…