Of all the programming styles I have learned, dynamic programming is perhaps the most beautiful. It can take problems that, at first glance, look ugly and intractable, and solve the problem with clean, concise code. Where a simplistic algorithm might acc... (more…)

At Atlassian, my fellow engineers and I often find ourselves creating tools that rapidly become crucial to our own workflows. Because of this, the practice of writing tests to ensure consistent behavior is almost second nature for us. We’re aware that thi... (more…)

R markdown is a powerful tool for sharing insights with stakeholders. In this post I talk about what I use when I need an equivalent solution in python. (more…)

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🎐 a python library for doing approximate and phonetic matching of strings. - jamesturk/jellyfish... (more…)