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Programming could be described as the process of giving a computer instructions. There are many ways to write programs that have within some tolerance the same function. Because of this arguments and philosophies arise as to what way code should be written. When starting out a lot of folks tend try to “golf” their code, make it as short as possible, while others may aim for best performance. I’m of the opinion that code should be written (given a certain functionality) as a document that communicates both the intent of the author and the functionality of the program.

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Dask distributed is a python package / distributed processing framework that gives the ability to parallelize code execution across a cluster.

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Unit testing your code is the ultimate route to developer sanity. A well written test suite is a patchwork proof of the correctness of your system. The more complete your patchwork, the more you can rest easy knowing your code will do what you intend it to do.

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Using the BLEMidi.h library, you can get your esp32, the goat of dev boards, to be a midi server (instrument), or client (it’s complicated).

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Cookie clicker is a video game where the goal is to click a cookie many times. Each click increments a click counter, and as the number of clicks increases power-ups are unlocked that accelerate the counter incrementing rate. Clearly this is a silly and futile endeavor. But not all silly and futile endeavors are entirely pointless. Enter the Arduino leonardo, an IC controller that can act as a keyboard and mouse.

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Like everyone else, I do my best to read many books, and like many, I find it to be a challenge, not just in finding the time, but also I found after you’ve read enough books, especially non-fiction, a lot of the book seems like filler. Different books on the same subject will cover the same material, or the author will be needlessly verbose in covering a topic. I thought ‘if I just want to read this book for the content, not the style, could I shorten it with an ai tool to ease some of the pain points?’

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DBT has support for a wide variety of databases. So far, I’ve been using Google’s bigquery as the database for all of my DBT blog posts, so let’s try something different. For this demo I’ll use Apache Hive

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