Travels in the data swamp

“The pattern recurs because it describes something real about how effort is distributed inside groups, where a fraction of the people do most of the work, and the rest provide what you might ~charitably call “structural support.”” https://www.joanwestenbe…

When I crafted my first 'successful'1 python script at work, one of the little triumphs was getting past the ***** corporate proxy. pip install pip_system_certs which patches pip and requests at runtime to use certificates from the default system store (r…

While I can’t promise that this will always be wildly interesting, a friend of mine used to talk about writing ourselves into existence, and I suppose it’s time to have another stab at it.