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Backend update - 2019 June 19
The backend of the lesinskis.com site is now updated and you won't see anything new at all on the frontend! Just another typical technical debt reduction exercise and more markdown.
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PyCon USA 2019 poster session poster - 2019 May 05
Here's the high res PDF poster from the PyCon USA 2019 poster session.
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PyCon USA 2019 coming up! - 2019 May 01
PyCon USA 2019
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Getting Altair to render inline in Jupyter - 2019 April 11
Run into the issue where Altair won't plot inline in your Jupyter notebooks? Here's a reason why it happens and how to fix it.
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Girls In Tech San Francisco workshop - 2019 February 08
The Girls In Tech workshop I facilitated in January-February 2019
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Pair programming with beginners - 2018 November 12
Effectively using pair programming to teach beginning programmers
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PyCon Australia 2018 - 2018 September 01
Some of my notes from PyCon Australia 2018
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A couple of questions about mypy - 2018 July 20
mypy is a useful tool for code quality in Python, I had a fellow developer ask me a few questions about it over email and my answers to some of the questions are in this post.
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Python's __hash__ function is not a cryptographic hash - 2018 July 14
You may have noticed that Python has an internal hashing method. Please note that this is not suitable as a cryptographic hash. If you need a cryptographic hash please use something else like hashlib.
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Limiting the runtime of Python unit tests - 2018 June 23
If you need to limit the run time of python unit tests you can use the pytest-timeout decorator to do it.
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