This is a short post, showcasing my solution to problem 22 on Project Euler. I worked on this problem over lunch with a few co-workers, and they found the solution useful. If you find this article, I hope it is useful to you as well.

The prompt for this exercise …

The Advent of Code 2019 challenge is open. These are my solutions to the problems presented on day 1.

Part one

Asks us to figure out how much fuel is required to lift a given spacecraft module if we know its' mass.

import math
import sys

def calculate_fuel_cost(mass):
    return …

Vim. For a program that was released in 1991, I am still amazed at the vast amount of features that I both know, and have yet to learn.

One such example are folds. In vim, folds are a concept that allows you to collapse parts of code based on rules …

A project at work requires that I learn Go, so I put together a few talks on the essentials of the Go language.

Part one can be found here

Part two can be found here

When I started writing Python, I quickly fell in love with keyword and keyword-only arguments because I realized they could make my code much more readable and robust. When I started writing Javascript, I was disappointed that there was no such thing. Until I read about object destructuring.

What is …

This is part of a series of articles on how to work with large data

The first method I want to explore when working with large data, since we cannot use RAM, is to use a database for our dataset. Databases are a staple of data processing and analysis, and …

Here's a question: how do you analyze data that is too big to fit into memory?

Those of you that have worked with pandas before are probably intimately familiar with the following syntax, which reads csv file into a DataFrame variable

import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv('dataset.csv …

I have a confession to make; I don't know javascript all that well. As a developer whose strengths lie primarily in back-end work, I've always held the language at arms' length, relying on it only when absolutely necessary. All that is about to change, because I am finally embracing javascript …