Don’t Be A Tourist In Your Own Code Base

Or: Vibecoding versus LAD

Software development with the assistance of coding agents is incredibly more productive than without - it’s the difference between building a house brick by brick yourself versus having a crew of expert tradespeople helping you.

However, vibecoding isn’t quite the right approach – that’s akin …

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A Practical Introduction to Polars for Python Data Processing

Polars is a "lightning-fast DataFrame library for Rust and Python" - if you're familiar with Pandas, Polars is quite similar but significantly faster and with a cleaner API. This post is a brief tour of how to set up and use Polars, working through a pragmatic example of the things you …

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Blog Technical Setup

Overview

I'm using Pelican as the static website creation framework.

I created the theme myself, I can open sores it if anyone is interested. It uses tailwind, which is mostly quite good, but a pain when it comes to integration with Pelican: tailwind wants classes added to html, but the …

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