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Github and the question of access

Your post Ownership and access made me think about an excellent article I read recently by Edward Loveall called Let's Make Sure Github Doesn't Become the only Option. I know it's not a perfect comparison, but I do think there are some similarities between

Software experiments and dumpster fires

I still haven't fully delved into your previous post about social media, but I wanted to highlight an article I ran across recently talking about how software experiments may factor into how platforms have tended to slowly morph into the shit-shows they are today. The post, Experiments Aren&

Strange state of mid-career training

I recently started looking into a potential training opportunity called PDM. This is put on by the folks who run the PyBites coding platform. I've followed these two since they set up the 100 days of code training for Talk Python and they're quite good. What

Vim - Part 1

Recently I've been going through some courses that are more configuration and command line-oriented, and that's gotten me back into using Vim, a terminal editor that I used regularly in the past but have neglected recently. I picked up Vim several years ago when I worked

Sharp Tools

Sometimes it's really fun to see a project come together–to see all of the different stakeholders, skill-sets and tools combine to create a final product that has an impact. One of the things I most like about working in IT is that, very often, you get a

A Couple of Recent Finds

I thought I'd post about a couple of random finds that I've enjoyed recently. bat A couple of weeks ago I stumbled on the fact that Github had a conference that came and went and that I wasn't aware of. Browsing through the talks

Practice

Recently I came across a fantastic blog by Dan Luu. It's one of those things where, once I found it I immediately spent several hours that night reading nearly every post. But the post I want to talk about has the wonderful title of 95%-ile isn'

Dask

It's been awhile since I've written about anything technical, mostly because I've been busy and not really investigating anything new. But recently, and largely on whim, I've checked out a course on Dask. This is a framework for doing parallel, scalable data

Nextcloud on a Raspberry Pi

I've always been a fan of self-hosted services. Back in the day that consisted of running a simple FTP file server at home. It expanded over time to include hosting a MediaWiki instance, an RSS aggregator, and a Turntable.fm bot. I think my most commonly-used services though

Interesting Things

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