Fun & Torture with Github Actions

I think I’ve heard people say data is the new gold at least twenty times. Having worked in data for a while, I’m pretty sure what they mean by that is that extracting and processing is a laborious and often violent process. It’s possible that my take is inspired by working as a data engineer, and therefore being the victim of other people’s data...

I don’t keep it much of a secret- I love functional programming. Or maybe I’m just burned form spending hours of my life chasing back inheritance to see where an object variable was defined. Either was, when I saw that hy lang v1.0 was release the other day, I was pretty kean to try it out! One of the downsides of new or more experimental...

Especially in the dark realm of data engineering, there’s a huge range of neat low-code/no-code UI tools. I don’t want to complain about those today, but I do want to talk about why libraries (as opposed to low-code UI) are really awesome. Low code is good code! One thing that I think get’s missed out, is that low-code can still be code. Plotly...

I don’t know where abouts we sit on the wave of yaml-domain-specific-languages. I really hope it’s the peak, and that things will simmer down. I like yaml a lot as a configuration language, but every time I was to work in a domain specific language pretending to be configuration, it sends chills down my spine. A big part of it is that github...

People (sadly) don’t go around asking me my favourite text editor a lot. But if they did, I’d answer in a second, (“Helix!”)[https://helix-editor.com/]. But weirdly, I have worked a bunch in the past with people who are new to coding, and have recomended them editors, I’ve never recommended Helix to someone starting out. That probably isn’t that...