Dan Harmon’s Advice for Overcoming Writer’s Block
Dan Harmon, creator of Rick and Morty, fielded questions from redditors in an Ask Me Anything (AMA) a while ago.
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Show your work: Writing complex SQL queries
This week I had to write this monster of an SQL query and I wanted to share some tips that I found useful.
Show your work: Automating cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code
I want to share a little piece of work that I recently completed. Hope you enjoy!
How to structure your python code
In this post I want to show you how you can set up and structure your python code if you don’t know where to start. Just copy our setup!
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Our Amazon Sagemaker Processing job setup
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In this stackoverflow question someone asks how to view logging messages while unit testing. It got a lot of responses but none of them worked for me.
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Don’t mistake the internet’s intelligence for your own
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You can always kill the feature
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Product thinking framework: transform waste
In this blog post I want to share with you what I like to call a product thinking framework, a way of coming up with new startup ideas.
How to fix an incompatible library version of nokogiri 1.10.10 in minimal mistakes
Imagine trying to run your blog with bundle exec jekyll serve or rake build and suddenly you are hit by this incompatible library error: