If you know someone who, like me, spent a long time working in Customer Service, you might notice that they don’t instinctively say “yes” when asked for a favor. Even after agreeing to do it, people who have the experience of getting yelled at when they break a “promise” will…
My employer has a company-wide break during the last week of December. I cannot recommend this enough. I’ve said this before and probably written it too, but taking time off is my passion. You know how people say that when you’re doing something you’re passionate about, it doesn’t feel like…
This week, I got a request to write a SQL report that counts the number of times users sign up for my company’s service from different pages on a website. Before I started writing, I spent about 15 minutes searching…because I could have sworn I had written a report like…
Something funny happened to me last week. I was helping a fellow engineer study for an interview and when they started writing a loop, I thought of Python syntax before JavaScript. This might not sound so unusual, but for a JS native like me, it was a big shift. I…
Loyal readers know that I have been working off-and-on with a Python script that generates a CSV which is meant to be shared with a user via Slack. This week, my coworker and I were able to successfully get such a file into Slack, meaning we were almost done with…
After a few weeks on different subjects, I’ve returned to the adventure of reading through a long Python script. This week, I found a function that contained some syntax worth investigating. When defining a variable called date_range, the code invoked a library called Arrow:
if args.end_date:
date_range…
Last week, I mentioned working on a Python script that integrates with Slack. Our users run the script by entering commands in a Slack channel and they get responses in that channel. I appreciate working on something that already has an integration set up because I can see how it’s…
Time is a flat circle and here I am again trying to find my way through a dense Python script. My current challenge is understanding how to create, edit, and most notably move files with Python. Ultimately, my team wants to integrate a script with Slack so that non-engineers can…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: at my job, we have a database with about 35 columns that is referenced by a 2,500 row Python script. We update the table multiple times each day and the script runs multiple times each night. There is one person who understands…
I had a couple of days off work this week, which means that I didn’t have quite as much time to expose myself to something new. So I’ve added an asterisk to my title because I learned enough last week to cover two blog posts. Can you believe it?
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