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James Lamb

@jameslamb.bsky.social

569 followers 945 following 134 posts

I ❤️ open source. Working on LightGBM and RAPIDS. Keep Chicago out your mouth. he/him. This is me: github.com/jameslamb

James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

what UX research told ESPN that sports fans want the "looking ahead to the offseason" notification 0.02 seconds after their team is eliminated? Are there sickos who like this???

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

What my brain sees when I land on a cppreference.com page.

Bulbapedia page describing the ways that the 'psywave' move can break a Pokemon game when certain unlikely combinations of game states happen.

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

POV: it's July and you get Pats push notifications from the @espn.com app

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

outrageous pickup at Trader Joe's in the Chicago burbs today

ingredients of beer from first picture... rye ale with coriander seed and mustard seed

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

'pydistcheck' (github.com/jameslamb/py...) is a CLI for finding portability issues in packages (wheels, sdists, and conda packages). Stuff like "file is too big" and "compiled objects have debug symbols". v0.11.0 now available 😁 (example in thread)

Terminal output from 'pydistcheck', showing that scikit-learn 1.7.2 macOS wheels are 8.2 MB compressed and that that they contain 956 files.

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

As we head into the weekend, friendly reminder for all you link-clickers out there 🥰

Calendar that says "STFU ABOUT CHICAGO", with a cartoon of legendary meteorologist Tom Skilling.

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Haven't done significant #rstats development in a little bit, doing some this week, and ummmm..... this rules???

Hexagon-shaped log for the h-t-t-r-2 R package, showing a baseball player swinging a bat. Followed by the text "httr2 (pronounced "hitter two").

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

coolest thing I learned today = wheelodex 🤩 Calculates "reverse dependencies" for projects on @pypi.org, similar to how CRAN does for #rstats packages! example: 13,000+ #Python packages depend on @scikit-learn.org (www.wheelodex.org/projects/sci...) source: github.com/wheelodex/wh...

Screenshot from wheelodex website, showing that package 13,595 packages on PyPI depend on 'scikit-learn', and listing some of the wheel files for version 1.6.0 of the project.

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James Lamb @jameslamb.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

What tools do you use to inspect #Python and #conda packages? I'm looking to expand the big list at pydistcheck.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ho...

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