LJ Miranda:

When I first saw “Avengers: Endgame” in theaters, I noticed that their time travel rule is quite similar to the Git branching model. Referred to as the time heist, our heroes travelled through time to recover the stones…

I had to truncate that pull quote to avoid Avengers spoilers. If you’ve seen the movie (or don’t care about getting spoiled) there’s some good Git knowledge to be gained from this analogy.

In which Lj Miranda proposes an exercise that data scientists can do to learn relevant software skills (with a tangible output in the end).

Create a machine learning application that receives HTTP requests, then deploy it as a containerized app.

I’m willing to wager that this is a worthy goal even if you’re coming from the software engineering side of the spectrum. Don’t worry, he’ll walk you through the steps.

Lj Miranda:

I made a website that generates cute 8-bit avatars using Conway’s Game of Life. Simply type in your name, and it will create a unique sprite just for you! Try out the changelog, jerod santo, or adam stacoviak!

Conway’s Game of Life is something that we consider as a Cellular Automaton. It was a mathematical model created by the mathematician John Conway, who, unfortunately, passed away a few weeks ago due to the coronavirus. I highly encourage you to know more about Conway, he’s such an interesting and unique individual!

Built with Vue and Python. Source code here.

Lj Miranda explains their architecture decisions with a metaphor I’ve never seen applied to software systems…

In this blogpost, I’ll explain why we need Flask, Celery, and Redis by sharing my adventures in buying McNuggets from Mcdonalds. Using these three (or technologies similar to them) is integral to web backend development so that we can scale our applications.

I love these “why we did X” style posts where folks share their real-world decision making processes and how they played out over time.