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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth. ⇨
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Recent Posts
17 Feb 2021
I started my Python package management journey years ago using pip, then more recently I embraced Anaconda and conda more fully (particularly with the “conda-forge” repository) to resolve complex dependencies along with system/binary dependencies. Recently, when attempting to update our team’s standard Python docker image with the latest versions of the packages we use, and include some new ones, it appears that relying on conda and conda-forge is untenable: I have been unable to resolve the appropriate set of versions for the scientific Python packages our team require for our work. I have moved back to pip for packages which are not provided in the default Anaconda repository. pip has and continues to make a number of improvements, and had no problem providing our extra dependencies.
10 Feb 2021
There many GNU/Linux command line tools that provide continuously updated statistics or information like iotop, nload, and top. However, it is often necessary to see the output of another simple command or complex chain of tools, updated in real-time.
watch is a Linux command that does just that, and by doing so, is incredibly useful for continuously monitoring the output of any Linux terminal command. Usage of the watch command is incredibly simple, as the following example monitoring the currently running tsp task in the task-spooler queue demonstrates.
17 Jan 2021
Given my experience and education, I have always been sort of philosophically aligned with the concepts in “Lean” management, production, and software development thought to have originated at Toyota in the 90’s. Using software as example, those are:
- Eliminate Waste
If some activity could be bypassed or the result could be achieved without it, it is waste. Partially done coding eventually abandoned during the development process is waste. Extra features like paperwork and features not often used by customers are waste. Switching people between tasks is waste. Waiting for other activities, teams, processes is waste. (from wikipedia)