Some books what I done read recently and one book that doesn't exist but I wish it did. Some books what I done read recently and one book that doesn't exist but I wish it did.

My local wargaming club was hosting a _Warhammer: Age of Sigmar_ Spearhead tournament with a twist: if you could paint your entire army between the time the tournament was announced and when the tournament took place (about 2 months), your entry fee was waived. My local wargaming club was hosting......

Everyone hates ticketing systems. Everyone needs ticketing systems. Ticketing systems are often misused. Everyone hates ticketing systems. Everyone needs ticketing systems. Ticketing systems are often misused.

The toughest prediction any data scientist makes is deciding which tools are worth learning. The explosion of generative AI only makes this harder. My prediction: LangChain is here to stay or, at least, the patterns behind it are. The toughest prediction any data scientist makes is deciding which......

Those of us who write code are an insecure bunch. Technology moves faster than any one human being can keep up. The threat of falling behind is real and can impact careers and earnings, and that's a terrifying thing. I studied a lot of tech concepts in my free time to try to stay relevant. Those ......

I'm house-hunting, and while I'd love to buy a 5-bedroom house with a pool 10 minutes walk from Flinders Street Station I probably can't afford that. So I need to take a broader look at Melbourne. I'm house-hunting, and while I'd love to buy a 5-bedroom house with a pool 10 minutes walk from Flin......

I've been playing around with an idea for a new R package. I call it exemplar and here's how it works: I provide an example of what data should look like --- an exemplar. The package gives a function that checks to make sure that any new data looks the same. The generated function checks --- ......

When I train a machine learning model in a blog post, I edit out all the mistakes. I make it seem like I had the perfect data I needed from the very start, and I never add a useless feature. This time, I want to train a model with all the mistakes and fruitless efforts included. When I train a ma......

Advent of Code is an advent calendar for programming puzzles. I decided to tackle this year's set of 50 puzzles in Julia and journal my experiences along the way. I'm a beginner in Julia so I thought this would help me improve my skills. Advent of Code

Advent of Code is an advent calendar for programming puzzles. I decided to tackle this year's set of 50 puzzles in Julia and journal my experiences along the way. I'm a beginner in Julia so I thought this would help me improve my skills. Advent of Code