I've rarely needed to use numpy or pandas. Now that I'm venturing into ML for a project, I've found #ChatGPT to be very helpful at explaining the code I'm reading in data science repos. And it's always obvious *after* the explanation 😆

It seems every time I update all the dependencies for my projects and I'm ready to release, another one of the dependencies updates! #dev #DevLaws.

If you are doing email marketing take a moment to think about your customers as people too. Well done @Etsy.

Excellent insight! When you are "so sure" what the problem is and waste time/effort going down the wrong path. Do the simplest thing you can think of to rule in/out your idea.

How did I not know this search engine/browser for icons across all the icons sets existed! Sweet!.

Big thanks to @_Americaneagle for hosting the Northwest Chicago JavaScript Meetup last night. A really nice facility! . I've posted my slides from my presentation on using Forward Chaining in JS online: .

Using @Slidevjs for the first time and it is so easy to use! Especially using the @code plugin with slide listing, real time preview, and slide reordering by @antfu7

What the heck! @Twitter suddenly changed my #TweetDeck to a preview of the new view. I clicked its import button it didn't bring over my dozen configured columns and multiple accounts! Why would I want to reconfigure everything again? Glad I could revert!.

Am I the only one who wears out key caps on their MacBook Pro keyboards? Seems I have to replace half a dozen keys every couple years. And I do most of my typing on my Ergodox keyboard!

💕 I would have used *so* many more words! Corollary: code to solve the user's problems.

I added user account/data deletion & export to my project. I'm using 3rd party services: @authzero @cloudinary & @SenderNet via their APIs. It was refreshingly easy to implement both features in my #Django service. Updated my Django REST API endpoints and the UI was hooked up.

A new type of dev paralysis. Been working on an upgrade of the server and ui of a side project and I just can't deploy it! I use it and I find something else I "should" improve before releasing. At work I'm for releasing each update as fast as possible, at home not so much! 😝.

Moved to latest 4.x #Gatsby and moved 3rd party scripts to <Script> deferred loading. Also moved some content off main page. Pretty happy with new Lighthouse scores. (SEO/Accessibility issues due to Disqus injected HTML 😢)

Welcome to the first business day of 2023 when you discover all your tests that didn't freeze current dates. .

Nothing like finding out your server isn't actually sending error messages when errors happen. I had an env var wrong in my Docker pipeline. Might add an endpoint that fails for a specific authenticated user is one way I could e2e test the full deployment(?).

Hard to believe my one and only #GatsbyJS #npm package, for signaling deploys to #Rollbar, actually got almost 2,000 downloads at one point this past year! 🤣 🤷‍♂️

Phew! A Merry Christmas!?!? .Spent today migrating an #Angular #Ionic #pwa from angular v11 to v15 and decided to enable some #Typescript checking features with the new TS version. Almost every file touched. Still more to do to enabled strict true.

TIL: using chrome dev tools you can select an element and then screenshot that element - saves carefully dragging selection rectangle:.

Dumb question: why doesn't #Gatsby CLI wrap components in Slices automatically at build time? Devs manually add Slice, sliceContext, change queries, and wire together. Seems to move build concerns into comps rather than leaving them in the framework(?).

"The Mythical Man Month" was truly influential in my career. It gave me the confidence to "speak truth to power" when management/product created unrealistic schedules/"plans". While it is likely getting dated now, I always recommend it to anyone working in software development.