Sean Law
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Sean Law
@seanlaw.bsky.social
👋 Principal Data Scientist, R&D at Schwab. 🐍 PyData Ann Arbor co-organizer. 🔥Creator of the STUMPY Python package for modern time series analysis:

👉 https://stumpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
I tried plotly a while back. Most viz tools are great when you have low/no customization requirements (e.g., streamlit was great too!). Unfortunately, custom stuff is still “easier” for tools that have a big historical community. At least, FWIW, that has been my experience…
February 23, 2025 at 12:51 AM
No, I’m using Bokeh directly
February 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
You know, that cost multiplies exponentially when I’m reminded by my wife that, “Hey, you’ve been working on this thing for two hours now…⏳” 😅
January 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
When I add up the hourly rate along with the $300 in raspberry pi parts, that $600 M4 Mac Mini (beast of a base model) starts sounding more and more like an easy win that “Future ME” will thank me for 😅
January 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
😅 It’s a deeply satisfying feeling to combine a few CLI commands in order to “make it work” and the endorphins associated with being able to do seemingly impossible things. However, when it “stops working”, I always go back to check my “hourly rate” and quantify how much money I’m burning 🔥
https://things.it’s
January 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Having said that, I found myself questioning the value of the raspberry pi under higher loads as the total cost is converging around $300. This doesn’t include the cost of maintaining the hacky software/OS and the hours wasted for being my own IT admin 😅
January 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Yes, I ran the diagnostics and everything passed. The read/write logs were consistent with the expected performance of the SD card. I’m running Homebridge with a lot of connected smart devices and so there is a lot of continuous logging that is slowing things down.
January 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
One question I have is the open source (Python package) contributor use case. If I have a wide range of contributors who may use `conda` or `venv` (or now Pixi) to setup their development environment, is there a good way to support that with Pixi? Or am I forced to only support Pixi contributors?
January 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Reposted by Sean Law
I swear the Brother motto should be, “Brother printers. They’re fine”

www.theverge.com/23642073/bes...
Best printer 2023: just buy this Brother laser printer everyone has, it’s fine
Do you really want to think any more about printers than this?
www.theverge.com
January 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I actually drove to Office Depot to look at them in person. The first 10 minutes was me trying to figure out why I was starting at $250+ printers with scanners, only to realize that they were for biz. The home printers were two aisles down, almost to trick suckers into buying the expensive ones.
January 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Thank you. I wish there was a way to configure it so that it will block if the pi-hole service is “up” but fail over to the secondary DNS if the raspberry pi’s address cannot be resolved/reached
January 22, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I had to look behind me after reading this message to make sure you weren’t standing right behind me (yes, it was a Brother printer!!) 😅
January 22, 2025 at 2:44 AM