Free and robust Tweets extraction

As anticipated by many, Twitter stopped offering its (limited!) API for free ​1​. Now, what options do you have to programmatically access the public content for free?In this context, it is worth mentioning the library snscrape, a tool (well-maintained as of now) for extracting the content from social media services such as Facebook, Instagram or …

Monitoring Azure Experiments

Azure Cloud is a popular work environment for many data scientists, yet many features remain poorly documented. This note shows how to monitor Azure experiments in a more handy and detailed way than through web or cl interface. The trick is to create a dashborad of experiments and their respective runs, up to a desired …

Repo Passwords in Poetry

Poetry, a popular Python package manager, prefers to use keyring to manage passwords for private code repositories. Storing passwords in plain text is a secondary option, but may be needed in case of either issues in poetry itself or with keyring configuration (may not be properly installed, be locked etc). To disable the use of …

Marking Python Tests as Optional

Often code tests are to be run on special demand, rather than in a CI/CD manner: for instance, they may be slow or work only in a local mode with protected data. This note shows how to declare code tests optional in pytest, the leading testing framework for Python. The article is inspired by the …

Demystifying TestDom

Recruiters nowadays use online timed tests when screening developers. I recently looked at Python & Algorithms Hard questions at TestDome. While the timing and hints seem to push towards implementing tricks from scratch, for the quality in long term it is better to structure the problem and use established solutions (divide & conquer). The battery …