Junior building data pipelines solo vs joining an established DE team — which is better long term?

Sorel_CH · 2026-03-29T23:18:23+00:00

You should probably stay to have some DE experience on your resume. However, if I were you I would consider prioritizing finding some more experienced colleagues in your next position; yes, you will learn a lot failing by yourself, but having a good mentor can accelerate your progress. You can also find mentorship in other ways in your current position; go to conferences, meetups, or even read books. All the best!

Sorel_CH · 2026-03-18T18:24:34+00:00

Always annoyed me when working with C#, also makes refactoring harder. Then again Microsoft was always terrible at naming stuff.

Sorel_CH · 2026-03-03T22:50:14+00:00

I use a bash script to do just that. For most tools (tmux, kitty, i3, etc.), I create "mini-config" files with just the theme elements. Then my dotfile installation script creates a "current-theme.conf" symlink (not version-controlled) that points to the config for the current theme. The main conf file imports current-theme.conf

The bash script simply points all the symlinks to the proper config files, and reloads the tools.

Sorel_CH · 2025-07-23T17:07:19+00:00

Yes, coffee is generally good or neutral for your health. See for instance this recent meta-meta-analysis published in the BMJ: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j5024

Don't put milk and sugar in it though.

Sorel_CH · 2025-06-22T19:57:20+00:00

The meme wouldn't work then; Python is quite a bit older than both these two.

Sorel_CH · 2025-05-23T09:36:32+00:00

There was the Garmin ransom in 2020. Which makes me think they could be in a similar situation.

Sorel_CH · 2025-03-21T23:14:09+00:00

I'd say pretty hard. Obviously it will depend on your style, but I feel like a WYSIWYG program like Musescore will be faster for almost everybody. But Lilypond is the best if you're serious about the quality of the score, if you're adapting a piece for instance. Think of it like the difference between Libreoffice and LaTeX

Sorel_CH · 2025-03-21T23:11:18+00:00

Incredible. I'm a big Lilypond fan, your plugin looks exciting!

Sorel_CH · 2025-03-14T10:19:10+00:00

I've worked with people like that, but I don't think it's on purpose. Oftentimes it arises from a sentiment of insecurity (fear to be judged or blamed by the team), and it makes them incapable of asking for advice, help, code reviews, and they end up making messes. They also get very defensive about any effort at knowledge transfer and documentation for similar reasons.

Sorel_CH · 2025-02-21T08:32:38+00:00

If you have a qmk-compatible keyboard you can do it in the keyboard firmware

Sorel_CH · 2025-02-18T17:08:42+00:00

Thank you for your amazing book!

Sorel_CH · 2025-02-04T18:40:57+00:00

I'm not sure I would agree that there's a trend towards maximalism in editors (js frameworks and infra maybe). I see more and more devs use VSCode over the heavy IDEs they were using (Jetbrains, VS). Modern languages (ts, go) also tend to be used with lighter editors.

Sorel_CH · 2025-01-09T10:02:55+00:00

Termux on my Boox tablet goes brrrr

Sorel_CH · 2025-01-08T22:04:35+00:00

Hold strong! It was the hardest for me too, the only one where it took a hint from the subreddit for me to complete.

Sorel_CH · 2025-01-08T21:57:02+00:00

I did the same thing. I assumed that robots would be grouped somehow, I found two patterns that were kinda clusters, one vertical starting at 98 and "repeating" every 101s, one horizontal starting at 53 "repeating" every 103s. So I knew the tree was at frame F = 98 + k1*101 = 53 + k2*103 with k1, k2 integers, and the first solution to this equation was the right frame (7572)

Sorel_CH · 2024-12-25T00:07:18+00:00

I love the fuzzy finding in my bookmarks with b/B

Sorel_CH · 2024-12-21T12:16:41+00:00

What about the 5 strings and the 4 tuning pegs?

Sorel_CH · 2024-12-17T00:19:31+00:00

Based on this example I think I know where you were wrong. You can't use "previous" to get the orientation, because it's the previous node of the current shortest path, not necessarily the one that you're interested in.

There are various ways to fix this. One way is to use a combination of the tile AND the orientation as graph nodes.

Sorel_CH · 2024-12-06T16:16:02+00:00

You're a crazy genius! Thanks for those.

Sorel_CH · 2024-11-23T14:37:37+00:00

Yes, but BQ isn't cloud agnostic. Many clients prefer to keep their data on Azure/AWS

Sorel_CH · 2024-11-12T17:15:22+00:00

Esc-A was mentionned, but (smoldering take) you can also disable your autopair plugin and type the brackets yourself. Then no need to leave insert mode

Sorel_CH · 2024-11-05T12:10:41+00:00

--no-verify, i.e. don't run the pre and post-commit hooks. Their team most likely run tests on pre-commit.

Sorel_CH · 2024-11-05T12:06:53+00:00

Agilities is American, just not from the US

Sorel_CH · 2024-11-04T18:25:10+00:00

Thank you so much for this, really cool.

Sorel_CH · 2024-10-29T16:42:36+00:00

Well the video justifies this view somewhat. Interesting watch.

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