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I open sourced the static site framework that I use to build my-blog among other side projects. It’s a plugins all the way down static site generator, that makes me happy to use.

{% gh_repo_list_topic “waylonwalker”, “markata” %}

my-blog is built on a number of small repos. I set it up this way so that creating content is fast and easy to do. I don’t have to worry about carrying around large images with my lightweight text files just to make some posts.

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I was on Talk Python

After years of listening to talkpython.fm I had the honor to be part of episode-337 to talk about Kedro for maintainable data science.

I was quite nervous to talk on a show that I helped shape my career in such a profound way. I started my journey towards software engineering near Michaels first few episodes. His discussions with such great developers over the years has made an huge impact on my skill. It has always given me great advice and topics to go deeper on.

During the episode I tried my best to let Yetu and Ivan take the spotlight as the maintainer and chime in with my experience as a user of kedro.

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I just love how some features of vim are so discoverable and memorable once you really start to grasp it. Sorting and...

People exceptionally talented in the Deliberative theme are best described by > the serious care they take in making ...

The one reason I switched to arch

The community, that’s it, end of post, roll the credits.

I am a tinkerer, I am not going to run a stock desktop manager, mostly becuase that’s just not how my brain works. I need to tweak everything to fit my needs. Grantid I have not spent much time in many full fledged linux desktop environments. They are far more customizable than windows ever will be, I absolutely love that about them. Inevitibly I end up in a situation where I hit a wall, it just won’t do what I want it to do, or my lack of understanding what came wtih it holds me back.

I love minimal installs. I love just building up my system from the bottom up with things that I like, I understand, and that I can script.

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So many terminal applications bind to exit, even the python debugger, its muscle memory for me. But to exit ipython I...