Three principles of the Unix philosophy let the program do one thing and do it well (single responsibility principle) make it abstract enough to be agnostic of irrelevant details or data types compose separate individual programs using standard well-defined interfaces. These are fundamental principles that stand behind the rapid birth...
2022, Jan 01 — 2 minute readThe ability to prioritize time and energy dictates your ability to execute tasks efficiently. When it comes to being a full stack developer, you can stand out more easily if you just develop the ability to be productive and efficient when working towards your goals, rather than looking and feeling...
2021, Apr 01 — 19 minute readBuilding data products more closely resembles a blood hound on a trail than a pilot charting a transcontinental flight pattern. I emphasize data products because it is far more encompassing than data analysis or data science and pertains to anyone attempting to make an impact with data. Portability is a...
2020, Mar 17 — 15 minute readOriginal Inspiration For This Guide Here is a general overview of the basic tools you will probably need to familiarize yourself with: XCode Homebrew Homebrew Cask Git Vim Atom Python (with Anaconda) R (with RStudio) LaTeX This guide is written with OSX in mind, but works almost exactly the same...
2020, Mar 10 — 10 minute readWe have all been there. We are configuring authorization credentials or API tokens to make a script process work. In my day to day the most common occurrence of this is when I am pulling or pushing data to Elasticsearch. I will often implement a getpass or input line to...
2019, Oct 31 — 6 minute readThis will show a simple H2 header, inserting an image into the post using the site.baseurl, resizing that image, and how to place a block quote section. This is that H2 header mentioned above! Look an image, but resized! The following will be a quote from Calvin Coolidge. “Nothing in...
2019, Oct 02 — 1 minute readThis post is to capture common markdown shortcuts. I will update it with examples, but the examples rendered here are for my purpose only. I do not live in markdown. So, anytime I want to update a repository or write a post I have to often revisit markdown cheatsheets. If...
2019, Oct 01 — 4 minute read