Josh Peak

My priorities are: - Myself - Family - Work - Meetups - FOSS If I haven’t replied, it is because I am attending to something higher on the list. It’s wild, Meetups and FOSS are pretty much run on the workforce labour equivalent of spot instances with a bid price of $0.01

Not all heroes wear capes. I’ve always said spreadsheets are gateway software development.

Has anyone else ever thought about how nodes in a cluster never need couples therapy or HR involvement to mediate because they have an agreed protocol and communication style? Just me?

The fact the we as a society have figured out how to communicate at the speed of light (fibre optics) and the speed of electricity over copper wire (1/3 speed of light) so a whole planet of distance doesn’t matter is phenomenal Now the limiting factor is emotional intelligence.

This is how I explain overfitting now.

Python 3.11 is finally released. In the CPython release team, we have put a lot of effort into making 3.11 the best version of Python possible. Better tracebacks, faster Python, exception groups and except*, typing improvements and much more. Get it here: python.org/downloads/rele…

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@bitprophet @jdriscoll Following this thread because I am also in the large nose whiskey sniffing club. Perhaps custom order from a glass blower, Etsy type of scenario?

Amazing and underrated interview with @nikitabase about the future of datastores. It is a matter of time until Snowflake, Redshift and Databricks are all playing catch-up. As a consultant in Data & AI I am keeping at eye on @neondatabase.

new little song: "The Re-Org Rag (I'm My Own VP)"

babe are you ok? you’ve barely touched the dashboard you claimed was mission critical

@_maintainable We refactored! Only 2 GOTOs remaining.

Share a legacy code nightmare in six words.

Probably all the async things in Python that claim high performance (throughput), including @FastAPI, are just powered by this. 🌪 ✨ Uvloop ✨ is the secret ingredient underneath all this (e.g. powering Uvicorn). This is what makes Python a good alternative to NodeJS or Go. 🤓

@MichelePlayfair I can’t unsee that my emails chains are just a stop motion animation of a conversation.

I'm feeling this today 😅

@SohanRai23 @willmcgugan learning platform budget is nice. We get to expense 1, I chose ORielly. But it’d be nice to self manage. Like once i have got what I want out of it for the month (or 2), cancel and pick up another platform that has the resources I want. So expense 1 and only 1 in any given month

@willmcgugan Access to atleast one learning platform like Pluralsight, LinkedIn Learning, Orielly etc.

What perks would make working at a tech company genuinely more enjoyable? By "perk" I mean non-work related, i.e. not nice chair, good computer, etc. Those should be standard.

@dabeaz Did you get side effects?

@bitprophet @Clidus I was symptomatic and positive on three consecutive home tests the other week. My wife was symptomatic but she was also negative on daily home tests for that week and negative on two PCR tests. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@BMJHayward Awesome!!! Thanks for sharing! I did not know about the Apache Tika project. Handy to know for surfacing NLP data.

@AdiPolak @ApacheSpark I’m currently studying for my Databricks ML pro exam so it is very relevant and helpful filling in some gaps on the advanced topics. So thank you 🙏 😊

@_neozenith @ApacheSpark Josh- thank you so much for your kind words. I am super grateful for you sharing your thoughts and finding the book useful for you✨

Very much enjoying reading the early release content of “Scaling #MachineLearning on @ApacheSpark” by @AdiPolak Truly amazing to get bleeding edge books with incremental chapter releases to provide the distilled narrative around complex topics. learning.oreilly.com/library/view/s…

So here's a short #Python story. My 14 yo son made a game for the Pew Pew console, a tiny Dance Dance Revolution clone. He learned to program the console at @deshipu's workshop at @europython this year. The final DDR clone was just 100 LOC and worked fine but there was a problem.