August 13, 2024

Finding pet projects

As my company undergoes layoffs, I’m back on the job hunt. While I’m in the field of data, I often find myself missing the hands-on experience that comes from personal projects. I realized that I’m not practicing all the skills I need. During a recent interview, I was asked about my experience with sending reports via email—something I hadn’t done in a few years. That got me thinking: could I turn this into a pet project? Read more

July 25, 2022

Pushing data to tinybird for free

So my azure subscription expired and I ended up losing the function I was using to feed my real-time data on analytics (part of the Transportes Insulares de Tenerife SA analysis I was making). And after some struggle, I decided to move it to a GitHub action. Why? Because the free mins per month were more than enough and because I just needed some script to run on a cron and that script just makes a request and a post. So, it was quite straightforward. Read more

December 30, 2020

Configurando poetry y gitlab

Hace poco más de un mes cambié de trabajo y me encontré además con un cambio de stack considerable. Ahora estoy trabajando con aws + github + python. Y bueno, al margen de los cambios de conceptos y demás, me ha llevado bastante encontrar un flujo de trabajo que no me pareciera “frágil”. Lo primero y que me ha decepcionado bastante es que github no incluye soporte para hostear paquetes de python. Lo tendrá sí, pero sin fecha clara y por lo pronto parece que será después de Junio de 2021. Read more

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