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Keras/TensorFlow Neural Network for Product Categorisation

I thought I would write this post because every time I looked for an example of categorising text all I would find were sentiment analysis of news articles or Twitter feeds. That’s cool because you can get started without having your own data set, but I do have a real data set I need to ...

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Deb Constrictor: Multiple Parents

To reduce the amount of setup required to start using Deb Constrictor for new projects, build configurations now allow for multiple parents (as of version 0.7). Now, when writing configurations, your build-config.json can inherit from a parent project config containing the project name, and a “base” config that defines the type of project ...

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DRY Django URLs with Enums

DRY code is good code. Using named URL patterns in Django has always bothered me for the fact that if you decide to change the name of a particular URL you have to change it throughout your code in all of your {% url %} template tags or reverse function calls. There must be a better way ...

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Cache Invalidation Magic with Wildcards

The two hardest things in computer science are: naming things, off-by-one errors, and cache invalidation. This post is about the latter, specifically, how to invalidate your users’ browser cache when your static files have changed.

I found out about this one weird trick (doctors hate him) a few years ago but I think it bears ...

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Deb Constrictor for Configuration Deployment (Part 3)

Welcome to the thrilling conclusion of this three-part series on deploying this site with Deb Constrictor. This post will cover how to build and deploy DPKGs for configuration (including different configuration for different environments), and how v0.4 of Deb Constrictor adds the ability to mark files as configuration.

This post assumes you’ve read part ...

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Deb Constrictor for Virtualenv Deployment (Part 2)

Using Docker for a reproducible deployment environment! Now that I have your attention with some buzzwords, welcome to the second of three parts in my series on how I deploy this site using Deb Constrictor. The last post was about building and deploying the application code, this one is about building the Python virtual environment ...

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Deb Constrictor for Application Deployment (Part 1)

Deb Constrictor (my pure-Python DPKG building application) adds many features in version 0.3 to make building packages easier and to keep your configurations DRY. This is part one of three posts of how I use Deb Constrictor to build and release this web site (the one you’re reading right now).

The application is released ...

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Analysing The Goat: Data Science and Adventure Running

I stupidly entered The Goat Adventure Race for the first time. This is a 20KM alpine race between Whakapapa and Turoa, at Mt. Ruapehu. While the distance is short, the terrain is difficult and the conditions can be cold, to say the least. As we know, races really start a few months earlier when training ...

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