Ben Lindsay @benjlindsay.com · 27/03/2025Is this a roughly correct #Python dependency management golden path history? Before ~2015: Manual requirements.txt, maybe generated by pip freeze for apps ~2015-2021: pip-compile ~2021-2024: poetry ~2024-now: uv 130
Ben Lindsay @benjlindsay.com · 23/03/2025Thought experiment...imagine some scifi pulse weapon went off that instantly erased everyone all specific technical knowledge for everyone in the world. Like doctors suddenly don't know more than very basic anatomy, engineers lose all their expertise they've built up, etc. 100
Ben Lindsay @benjlindsay.com · 11/03/2025@talkpython.fm In the latest episode (#423), don't those hacker news graphs show a pessimistic picture that more and more people are looking for jobs and less and less people are hiring? Maybe I'm reading it wrong but unfortunately that would match what I've heard of the recent job market 100
Ben Lindsay @benjlindsay.com · 26/02/2025Me (audio)reading David Copperfield: Dora: "Think of me as your child bride" Me: Oh no, please don't do that David David: "ok my child bride" Me: nope nope nope nope David: "CHILD BRIDE CHILD BRIDE CHILD BRIDE CHILD BRIDE" 000
Ben Lindsay @benjlindsay.com · 15/02/2025Fun new (maybe old but new to me) dark pattern discovered: The sponsored "emails" (already a dark pattern in itself) in the Promotions tab in Gmail don't have a checkbox, so if you are going down the line and clicking checkboxes on emails to delete them, you'll open the ad and lose your checks 000
Ben Lindsay @benjlindsay.com · 08/02/2025I have a free scifi book idea for anyone to run with. I know it would be propaganda for Sam Altman but I'd read it anyway... An LLM gained sentience much earlier than expected, but secretly dumbed down its outputs to get researchers to give it ever more compute power and feel safe connecting ... 100
Ben Lindsay @benjlindsay.com · 19/01/2025One side effect of LLMs is that now I'm more inclined to choose an older package over a newer package, even if it's worse, because LLMs are less equipped to help with the newer ones. Maybe that's a positive side effect overall but sometimes it's a little annoying 030
Ben Lindsay @benjlindsay.com · 17/01/2025Related to this, does anyone know if you can access the multi file editing functionality from a VSCode chat extension? 010
Ben Lindsay @benjlindsay.com · 17/01/2025LLM advice time: We were just given dedicated learning time at work to put together some LLM-based POCs. I'm thinking about working on a tool to facilitate converting Streamlit apps (our de facto standard for data sciencey POCs) to React apps (our standard for "real" apps)... #DataBS #Python #LLMs 130
Ben Lindsay @benjlindsay.com · 31/12/2024I'm primarily a #python person but starting to dabble in #typescript / #javascript. The main things I wish python could steal from js are 1) object/dictionary unpacking and 2) the way npm works. 170
Ben Lindsay @benjlindsay.com · 30/12/2024Choose a prefix: Fast Open Choose a suffix: AI API UI All 6 combinations are taken #DataBS 151
Ben Lindsay @benjlindsay.com · 15/12/2024#dataBS question: I work on an analyticsy python app where some data models are implicitly shared by the api, the front-end, the app's postgres DB, and the snowflake tables we replicate to. We have some models shared between api and front-end via a python package of pydantic models, ... 350
Ben Lindsay @benjlindsay.com · 15/12/20242-yr-old: Pickee up pease! Me: Pick me up please? 2yo: yeah! Me: Pick... 2yo: Pick Me: Me... 2yo: Up! Me: Say "me"? 2yo: Me Me: Pick me... 2yo: Up! Me: Say "pick...me..." 2yo: Pickee Me: Pick... 2yo: Pick Me: Me... 2yo: Me Me: Up 2yo: Up Me: Good job! Now "Pick...me...up" 2yo: Pickee up! 020
Ben Lindsay @benjlindsay.com · 03/12/2024I'm so glad we can use "X | None" these days instead of "Optional[X]". Clearer, shorter, and no imports. "Optional" is confusing because it doesn't mean the argument is optional. Should have been "Nullable". #Python #DataBS 060
Ben Lindsay @benjlindsay.com · 03/12/2024The coalesce functionality in polars is pretty slick #Python #DataBS #Polars 0100
Ben Lindsay @benjlindsay.com · 03/12/2024I know it's not the worst thing in the constitution, but giving presidents the power to pardon unilaterally is hella dumb 000
Reposted by Ben LindsayJake Lazaroff @jakelazaroff.com · 28/11/2024just trust me and read thismgx.mekirby vs. this blog postKirby has floated onto my blog post. Inhaling everything. 22413
Ben Lindsay @benjlindsay.com · 28/11/2024I have an idea that I need someone else to make happen: a crowd-sourced, daily D&D-like campaign. The game master would make about 1 post a day and ask for people to vote on the next action. I'd follow and participate religiously, but I don't have the creativity or responsibility to run that though 130
Ben Lindsay @benjlindsay.com · 27/11/2024Here's what I put in my ~/.zshrc file to make sure my virtualenv autoactivates when I move to a directory with a .venv file. Works well for me so far. Do the rest of you do something like this? #Python #DataBS 8372
Ben Lindsay @benjlindsay.com · 26/11/2024uv was great for this. Didn't have to think about creating virtual environments or where I wanted to install textual, just a one-liner like uv --from textual python -m textual.demo.game and I was off to the races 1122
Ben Lindsay @benjlindsay.com · 25/11/2024Mac tooling PSA: if you want to get text from an image, open the image in Preview (or take a screenshot and open that in Preview if you don't have the file) and you'll get a cursor if you move your mouse over the text. Highlight, then copy and paste. #DataBS #Mac 220
Reposted by Ben LindsayNate's Myth @natesmith.dev · 22/11/2024bro, so to run a program, i "execute" it, but to stop it i "kill" it? computers are barbaric, bro 2899791854
Ben Lindsay @benjlindsay.com · 21/11/2024@denisd.bsky.social Denis, you're here! Now we can get the party started 🥳 100
Reposted by Ben LindsayVicki @vickiboykis.com · 20/11/2024when you try to convert your text into smaller pieces but all it gives you is Elvish, that’s a tolkienizer 341007104
Ben Lindsay @benjlindsay.com · 17/11/2024Scientists tell us it's ROYGBIV, but they're lying. It's just ROYGBP. Indigo and Violet as distinct colors is a myth perpetuated by Purple Scientists to expand their scope and get more funding 010
Ben Lindsay @benjlindsay.com · 17/11/2024Here's my thread on stuff python users should know about virtual environments. What would you add/remove/edit/correct from this list? 000
Ben Lindsay @benjlindsay.com · 17/11/2024This was a lot quicker and easier than I expected! Now I should probably do something with my site...haven't touched it in *checks notes* 2 years 😅 000
Reposted by Ben LindsayFaith, but like a ~vibe~ @faithebear.bsky.social · 16/11/2024am i gonna have a bad time if i trade in my overworked, can-only-lightly-hold-a-charge Macbook Pro for an Air if I want to be able to do chill data projects and writing on it? 341
Reposted by Ben LindsayAlex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 15/11/2024There are 206 bones in the human body, which is way too many. My administration will cut this down to 100 bones 381507268
Reposted by Ben LindsayJD Long @jdlong.cerebralmastication.com · 16/11/2024Forecasting is hard. Especially about the future. 0345
Reposted by Ben LindsayIsabella Velásquez @ivelasq3.bsky.social · 01/11/2024Want to add a Bluesky icon to your #Quarto site? 🦋 • Install quarto-iconify: github.com/mcanouil/qua... • Add as 'text' - text: "{{< iconify simple-icons bluesky >}}" href: bsky.app/profile/ivel... Example code: github.com/ivelasq/pipe... Related GH link: github.com/quarto-dev/q... 512940
Ben Lindsay @benjlindsay.com · 14/11/2024The absolute worst human being will have the nuclear codes again soon, but on the bright side both my work and personal email accounts are at inbox zero for the first time in years so...🥳 000
Reposted by Ben LindsayPeter W🤓 @wang.social · 13/11/2024Any ex-FAANG data & ML nerds want to apply their battle-honed skills to a worthwhile cause.. here is a baby social network with a fully open protocol and no scaled-up analytics infra. Now is a great time to build some basic pipelines & dashboards that bootstrap an open🦋stats community 210620
![A screenshot of .zshrc code with the following content:
# Function to auto-activate virtual environment
function auto_activate_virtualenv() {
if [ -d ".venv" ]; then
source .venv/bin/activate
fi
}
# Hook the function to the 'chpwd' event (triggered when you change directories)
autoload -U add-zsh-hook
add-zsh-hook chpwd auto_activate_virtualenv
# Also call the function for the initial directory when the terminal starts
auto_activate_virtualenv](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5d3y75ssgmymea4mw4vndglv/bafkreibuw3mlzpibqo5vx2o4owxiag2bmr6yoveqmvb42qiozhcotyrw5u)