The world's shortest tidbit I don't think this is really worthwhile as a tidbit, as it's (1) very short, and (2) very obvious - once you know about it. But this …

Design Patterns (Part 1): What? Why? What is a Design Pattern In software engineering, a software design pattern is a general, reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem within a …

Getting the dataset Flight data downloaded from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache-superset/examples-data/master/tutorial_flights.csv: R library(dplyr) library(readr) data <- read_csv("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache-superset/examples-data/master …

The Problem Python lets you have multiple virtual environments and that's cool for running scripts but when you need to install Jupyter and run a notebook in Jupyter Lab (the …

If your conda environment is taking a long time to solve (or failing to solve altogether), you might want to try mamba, which reimplements conda in C++ with an improved …

Issues with memory use can be hard to pin down, as your program may only show issues after carrying out multiple memory intensive steps. Using the memory_profiler package in Jupyter …

Autocompletion of variable names in Jupyter Lab (or Notebook) can be frustratingly inconsistent. For a smoother development experience, the jupyterlab-lsp extension provides better completions using the same language servers as …

Turn DOCX files into JSON Do you have some Microsoft Word documents in DOCX format, but for some reason you'd like to work with JSON files? Well you are in …

The output you deliver to clients might include multiple reports, e.g. HTML files generated from RMarkdown. In order to display these using Github Pages, it's useful to create an …

The Problem In building up code and tracking the bugs, it is extremely useful posting the traceback in a GitHub issue. The problem is that when we are dealing with …