Some great links for 06/14/2020
Free illustrations for developers. – DEV
For all those times when you need just the right illustration, an apparently amazing collection!
tags: free howto illustration
Blog Posts
All my blog posts and articles
June 2020
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2020-06-13
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2020-06-10
Some great links for 06/11/2020
Robotics Course that looks great
1. ConX Neural Networks — conx 3.7.9 documentation
Friendly, Jupyter-notebook-ish neural nets
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2020-06-07
Some great links for 06/08/2020
datas-frame – Modern Pandas (Part 2): Method Chaining
Ive been trying this style and while it looks cool I am not sure it’s more productive. Because debugging is harder as you can’t examine intermediate results.
tags: functional pandas method chaining howto
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2020-06-03
Some great links for 06/04/2020
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Method Chaining in Pandas
Good article exploring and explaining the functional or fluent style of design in python.
tags: functional pandas style howto
May 2020
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2020-05-31
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2020-05-27
Some great links for 05/28/2020
Very impressive data transformation tool
It claims to be able to convert, transform and massage data in css, json and lots of other tabular formats!
Amazon Web Services Handy Oneliners
Great one line explanations of all the millions of AWS services.
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2020-05-25
Some great links for 05/26/2020
The Definitive Guide to Python import Statements | Chris Yeh
Another good article about Python modularity
tags: python import howto modularity
April 2020
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2020-04-22
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2020-04-10
Some great links for 04/11/2020
Cleaning and Prepping Data with Python for Data Science — Best Practices and Helpful Packages
Tour de force explanation of techniques for data cleaning in python data science
tags: howto python cleaning data datascience
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2020-04-05
Some great links for 04/06/2020
Read more →We all live in the shell. (Yes, if you’re not geekish that sentence makes no sense). And you can always learn a little more and some special trick to make your day. Here’s another reference.
Great collection of Public APIs
Well I always look at ProgrammableWeb.com but it’s becoming more and more cluttered with ads and whatnot. Also there’s ...
March 2020
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2020-03-28
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2020-03-25
Some great links for 03/26/2020
Read more →Facade Pattern in Rails for Performance and Maintainability | AppSignal Blog
Good explanation. Although I don’t know exactly what his difference is between a facade, a presenter and a service object.
tags: howto pattern rails facade
Integrated systems for integrated programmers – Signal v. Noise
Why microservices are so much...
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2020-03-22
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2020-03-07
Some great links for 03/08/2020
Integrate Bootstrap 4 and Font Awesome 5 in Rails 6
This can always be a paining the butt. And now that Rails4 uses all this new and badly integrated package management stuff it gets worse. This is a helpful article.
tags: rails bootstrap webpacker
Smithsonian Open Access | Smithsonian Institution
Huge collection of images for your hacking pleasure!
tags: collection open source image
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2020-03-06
Some great links for 03/07/2020
Please stop recommending Git Flow! – George Stocker
It’s always hard to handle branches. This was a very popular post when it came out.
tags: howto branches git cargocultimg
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2020-03-05
Some great links for 03/06/2020
Library for stubbing and setting expectations on HTTP requests in Ruby.
There are many of these building blocks. Use this to mock a web service that your system depends on. That way you can test your system without incurring the costs (in money and time) of calling the service.
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2020-03-03
Some great links for 03/04/2020
Ruby on Rails Mistakes that could kill Your Production Servers
Specific good advice on rails performance and scale.
tags: servers ruby on rails howto ruby production
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2020-03-01
Some great links for 03/02/2020
Google Interviewing Process for Software Developer Role in 2020 / Habr
The madness of interviewing at google. OMG!
tags: software google developer interviewing
A good list. I know every single one and would generally agree with it. Some books are too high in the list and some too low. But an excellent starting point.
tags: recommended howto programming books
February 2020
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2020-02-27
Some great links for 02/28/2020
How to write Javascript in Rails 6 | Webpacker, Yarn and Sprockets
A good introduction to the very confusing combination of JavaScript, yarn, css, etc in rails 6. Hopefully they will clean this up in rails 7.
tags: javascript yarn rails
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2020-02-25