Blaine Buxton - My Journey of Software Improvement

Implicit Interfaces in Python

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One of the ideas that I really like from Go is implicit interfaces. It allows clients to document the exact usage of a wide object and constrain what parts to be used. The…

PySpark Unit Testing

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pyspark

One of the features that I love about PySpark is the data frame abstraction is agnostic about data sources and destinations. This allows unit testing data transformations…

Tower Of Hanoi Solver

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I’ve always loved the Towers of Hanoi ever since I was introduced to it as a kid by chance. I thought it would be perfect to write a solver using Julia to learn it. This is…

Einstein Puzzle Solver

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I love number puzzles and bought one inspired by Einstein on holiday recently. The idea is simple. There’s 16 tiles with numbers that can be placed in a 4x4 grid. The goal…

Optional Typing in Python

talks

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Gave a talk at the Tampa Python User Group on Optional Typing. The talk was last year in May, but I wanted to share it on my new blog.

Welcome To My New Blog

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This is the first post in my new Quarto blog. Welcome!