Folks, there is a lot of documentation out there about building Python apps and integrating them with Slack. A lot of it is outdated because of Slack API changes - even the Slack docs have a few b ... Read more
Once you're logged in to your Google account, you can list all of the projects you have access to, either with a personal account or within an organization, by visiting the Cloud Resource Manager page ... Read more
BigQuery is just a data store, hosted by Google, part of the Google Cloud set of services. It's a "Big Data" tool, designed for use with large data sets. The cost structure makes it not efficient for ... Read more
I was tempted to title this "how to use GCF to create a simple ETL process", but that's not quite what I'm demonstrating here. It does loosely fit the description of an ETL process - the scri ... Read more
"Hey, you're a programmer. My cousin is thinking about getting into coding. Which bootcamp would you recommend?" None. Not one of them. Because that is not the place to start. There ... Read more
This year's conference just ended a few days ago and the videos are already up! The A/V team did an outstanding job this year - in a lot of cases talk videos were up on YouTube within hours. The who ... Read more
Call I'm not going to explain why calling is the single most effective way to reach your Congressperson. There are plenty of resources online to do that for me: ... Read more
A decade ago, when I was a Django early adopter, I remember being very anti-ORM. I dug my heels in hard and used raw SQL for longer than I want to admit. It wasn't that the Django ORM (or other fram ... Read more
I was going to present all this information in a Twitter thread, but then I realized my descriptions could easily stretch into dozens of tweets. At that length, it should be in a blog post. Still, I ... Read more
This year has thrown a couple of tough interviews my way - nothing too difficult technically, they just didn't work out for one reason or another. I've always been a nervous interviewer - clearly I ... Read more