Around a year ago (give or take a few months), I was talking with a coworker about context managers, and a question arose: could you use a context manager to measure elapsed time? I stashed the question away, and created a project Timing Context Manager, which I actively ignored for many months. New year, new me, and a conversation with Marc Ramírez moved me to unblock some of my old projects. This was the easiest project I had in Python, so I moved it to active.
First edition of the New Year. As eclectic as usual, I hope. The audio-based monitoring of servers and the weird uses of the GPT-2 neural network could be two highlights.
My girlfriend likes to joke/complain that I have more keyboards than hands. And indeed, I have probably a dozen or so different keyboards, most of them bluetooth. But, I have found the best one for the day-to-day work (sadly it is not bluetooth). It is a Gergo.
On time this week. Nothing remarkable: I’m winding down a bit my reading (both articles and books) in preparation for the yearly review and having some cooldown period.
A flight last Sunday meant I was so sleepy I skipped sending last week’s newsletter… so this week is super-sized. A lot of content about distributed teams I think.
This week is somewhat more eclectic than usual. There is nothing about any particular programming language. There is a bit on Kubernetes, functional programming and containers, project management, aviation history, interviews/bios… I have started reading a few more papers, and I’ll share the interesting ones as well. This week they are centered in data engineering.