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Hey folks, I've recently been tasked with doing some code cleanup for a hefty .Net codebase. It quickly became apparent that this wasn't going to be possible without some sanity checks to make sure that my refactors…

One of the projects I work on has a Git Rebase workflow. Developers looking to get their changes into the main branch: 1. Do a rebase to get their branch in-sync with main, 2. Squash their branch's commits, 3. Make a…

Hey folks, I started work as a consultant roughly half a year ago, and in doing so, have found myself pulled into more and more web development projects. Although it isn't really my area of expertise, I've been happy to…

Hey all, Some time ago I published a Kaggle dataset as part of a passion project. It was generated by a fairly involved handwritten Python pipeline that I hacked together while learning Pandas. The dataset became far…

Like many C.S. graduates, my education was theory heavy and practice light. I have spent much of the past few years rapidly building out missing areas of expertise to fulfill an increasingly wide pool of presumed…

I've accidentally assumed the role of local Python guru at my current company. Coworkers ask me about best practices, popular libraries, and deployment tooling. I find it very flattering, but I'm really just a tinkerer…