Brady @DataCastworks

"Thinking Sideways" by @jenshahade.bsky.social was a DNF after "self-made billionaire Jenny Just told me..." We get it already, you talk to famous people and make the chess/poker circuit with the big kids. No one is a self-made billionaire.

🎉 Pandas 3 is out! As of a short while ago, installing #Python #Pandas from PyPI, with either pip or uv, will give you the latest version. What's new? What has changed? 🤔 I've got a whole YouTube playlist to tell you: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Ok, so you've got a big JSON, what are you going to do with it? #postgresql #pythoncoding

My first home server dropped off the network. I caught it in time for my cron scripts to recover, but it made me realize that the whole thing can fail silently. I’m using a dead man switch now (healthchecks.io) now so that won't happen again. @monkeyseemonkeydo.lv #pythoncoding #cron

I paid for the whole computer I get to break the whole computer

I'm new here but is anyone calling their .env a dot-envy file? #pythoncoding

The feature (and bug waiting to happen) is also the reason I recommend using trailing commas for lists, dictionaries, sets, and function calls that wrap over multiple lines: pym.dev/trailing-com... Also note that Guido isn't a fan of this feature either: lwn.net/Articles/551...

@nws.noaa.gov the API for Norfolk hasn't updated in 24 hours, hope it's something minor! @noaacomms.noaa.gov #bugreport

Sad to see Pittsburgh City Paper going away. In 1996, the then-young weekly gave me a shot and I got to learn from John Hayes, Chris Potter, Bill O'Driscoll and Lisa Cunningham, among many others. Our region's media landscape loses a source of lively, community reporting triblive.com/business/pit...

Needed to clean code after my first major rewrite. 'Coverage.py' is awesome, showed exactly what isn't getting called. I silently broke something on the path to email alerts for the error logger. Oops... @nedbat.com #python #coding

I butchered my beautiful first code. Tore it to pieces to get it working with a different API to get a data pipeline in place before Jan 1. First production script, first time running amok to hit a deadline. It works though.... #python #postgresql

It's just for-loops all the way down #python #coding

99 Percent Invisible has me wondering if I've been saying "F.A.Q.s" wrong my whole life. "Facks"!? How do you say it? @99pi.org @romanmars.bsky.social @vivianhle.bsky.social #facts

Crisis in progress. After 2 weeks on my first big project: The data from the API isn't valid. Learning about troubleshooting and pivoting and how to reuse what I've already written.

AI for learning: Don't ask GPT to fix your code. Ask for it to do a code review and highlight weaknesses without giving you the answers. #python #postgres #chatgpt #ai #aiforlearning

Top Python Libraries of 2025 (11th Edition) https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1pptnyc/top_python_libraries_of_2025_11th_edition/

Waking up to error emails from my server... ...means my first production python script is working. #raspberrypi #python #postgres

First major challenge: Python JSON would not load into Postgres. Solution: lie and call it a really long string. #python #postgres #sql

Highly recommend "How Git Works" by @paoloperrotta.bsky.social for an introduction to version control. He makes it very easy to understand and you'll be making your first commits in less than an hour. www.pluralsight.com/courses/how-...