Working in many startups I’ve noticed trends for environments that seem to succeed versus those that don’t. One thing that stands out to me is enabling and keeping high trust....
Balancing example code when teaching always feels like tricky business. If you take real world examples then they might be too lengthy in code and too verbose to explain. On...
I’ve seen some great examples of jinja in recent years outside of web development. Airbyte’s connector development for example has some nice jinja templating going on. They enable you to...
I recently started a new job (an exciting few months, as shortly after my last post my partner and I went to Japan.. got engaged! Then work began). So I’ve...
I plan to add to this post - absolutely not comprehensive, rather a few notes on dbs / warehousing solutions I’ve used. Also given the pace of deleveopment at places...
When you have a hammer.. everything looks like a nail. Similarly, when you know Postgres.. Postgres is good for all problems right? It’s like the proverbial porridge in the 3...
In my last post I gave an example of a class you’d only inherit and not directly instantiate and so it seemed worthwhile to write a bit about abtract base...
In a previous post I joked about how misleading dynamic assignments of attributes can be when using descriptors like property. Something that’s a useful way to ensure you don’t (accidentally...
As the documentation tells us, a descriptor is just something that implements the __get__, __set__ or __delete__ method(s). You’ve probably used them yourself and not known it - examples include...
