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I'm really bad at this blogging thing, clearly. Check that drafts folder though, there's some half written gold in there. So in order to bump a particularly badly written post of the top of the masthead, I'm going to write a post about what I learned this year(ish). What year is it again?

I'm currently building a testing and validation framework using Python for a very old and quirky TM1 model. TM1py provides all the functionality you need to pull data from a cell but I found myself writing wrappers for specific cubes to make this a bit easier.

There's no body shaming here but as a big proponent of code formatters and pre-commit hooks, I was a little shocked by the extent of the makeover Prettier gave my code (and I learned how to spell "curiosity")

I have spent years dodging PowerPoint, with limited success. Whether it was me who was expected to deliver the presentation, or people imploring me to automate the creation of their slide decks, I dreaded few things more. What really pissed me off was the feeling that it really didn't need to be this hard...

Our reporting stack is built atop over 15k lines of BigQuery SQL that I have been trying to tame. Having made good use of Python formatters and linters like Black and Flake8, I wanted a linter that could help me clean up the code and also potentially be integrated with pre-commit and GitHub Actions.