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lucasnad27/README.md

Operating Instructions for Lucas

Below you'll find a collection of technical principles, tools, and frameworks. If you're interested in learning more about my experience and skills, I'd recommend checking out https://electricocean.io

First Principles for Good Software

  1. Simple
  2. Tractable
  3. Repeat yourself -- don't build hasty abstractions
  4. Simple, seriously.

Organizational Tools

  • Omnifocus - A tool born out of the necessity of managing multiple people & projects
  • Readwise - Surfaces daily highlights from books I've read int he past. Has become one of the favorite parts of my day.
  • Goodreads - Seems to be rotting away after being acquired by Amazon, but still the best way for me to track my book reading.

Developer Tools

  • VS Code - I always come back to VS Code, even if it is an electron app.
  • VSpaceCode - The power of mnemonic prefixes and discoverability of SpaceMacs, as a VSCode Extension.
  • Magit - Well-crafted UI abstraction for the git CLI, integrates with Emacs & VSpaceCode.
  • Starship - First bash-it, then ohmyzsh, and now Starship. Each one required less configuration and similar efficiencies. I don't use a terminal without it.
  • Codeium - Preferred AI coding assistant. Crazy fast. Constantly improving. Generour free tier for solo developers.

Frontend Awesome

A collection of my go-to tools for frontend development

  • Svelte + SvelteKit - Managing state and updating the dom just make sense with this no nonsense framework.
  • Tailwind CSS - Utility-first CSS framework that reduces my urge to retreat to backend development when building UIs.

Backend / Data Science Awesome

A combination of backend and data science resources

  • Advanced Python Testing - I come back to this article again & again when building test pipelines and best practices.
  • Black - Reduces the need for 80% of code comments (python).
  • Dramatiq - Preferred async task processing library (python).
  • Hugging Face - Github for machine learning

Operations Tools

I've worked with AWS, GCP, and Azure. Cloudflare provides a subset of these functionalities, but for most work loads, the gap is closing fast. And it's usually cheaper and easier to reason about. Here's the stack I used when re-building my B2B SaaS company, EasyLocates, with Cloudflare tooling.

  • Object Storage: Cloudflare R2
  • Image Pipeline: Cloudflare Images
  • Compute: Cloudflare Workers/Pages -- combine with a meta-framework like SvelteKit and you have a redundant, self-healing node backend with zero configuration
  • CI/CD: Integrates directly with Github
  • Integration Testing: Github Actions continues to make my old operational skills obsolete. And I'm ok with that.
  • AI: You can quickly run AI experiements with Cloudflare's built-in models. And their in-house vector DB, Vectorize, allows you to build RAG prototypes.
  • DB: Postgres continues to be the go-to option for RDB data workloads.

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  1. Transforming Code into Beautiful, Id... Transforming Code into Beautiful, Idiomatic Python: notes from Raymond Hettinger's talk at pycon US 2013. The code examples and direct quotes are all from Raymond's talk. I've reproduced them here for my own edification and the hopes that others will find them as handy as I have!
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    Notes from Raymond Hettinger's talk at pycon US 2013 [video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OSGv2VnC0go), [slides](https://speakerdeck.com/pyconslides/transforming-code-into-beautiful-idiomatic-python-by-raymond-hettinger-1) and pycon US 2015 [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-BqAjZb8M)
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    The code examples and direct quotes are all from Raymond's talk. I've reproduced them here for my own edification and the hopes that others will find them as handy as I have!
  2. quality-momentum quality-momentum Public

    A python library that creates Pyfolio tear sheets for a quantitative momentum algorithm

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  3. stock-universe stock-universe Public

    Catalogs and persists stock prices across multiple universes (exchanges)

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