I’ve been developing a quick and dirty data migration routine to get terabytes of data stored in AWS S3 as parquet files into our ClickHouse Cloud cluster. I’m really happy that I took some time to read up on the clickhouse local command, which is included in any installation of ClickHouse. Not only was this…
Author: jonesy
ClickHouse Cheat Sheet 2024
For the past 4 months, ClickHouse has been my life, full time. I’ve been vetting it for production use and learning all about it in the process. Since my memory has always been notoriously poor, I take a lot of notes (in fact, that was the original reason for this blog’s existence). So, while I’d…
User Activation With Django and Djoser
Depending on the project, Django and Djoser can go really well together. Django provides such an enormous feature set as a foundation, and such a modular platform, that tools like Djoser can provide enormous value while still staying out of the way of the rest of your application. At the same time, the whole solution…
Python Selenium Webdriver Notes
I used Python Selenium Webdriver for a project wherein a client needs a program that will log into around 25 different web sites, and download a total of 750-1000 different documents. Automating operations across so many different sites has been a huge learning opportunity for me. It’s a lot of fun! I had a passing familiarity…
On Keeping A Journal and Journaling
I've kept a journal since I was 11. That was in the mid 80's. I hadn't heard the word “journaling” until about a year or so ago, and lately it appears that giving advice and howto information about journaling is a bit of a cottage industry. I had no idea so many people were in…
What Geeks Could Learn From Working In Restaurants
I spent a long time in my teens and early 20’s working in restaurants. To be honest, I loved just about every minute of it. It’s exciting, you’re never idle, and it’s usually not boring: you either get immediate gratification from happy customers leaving a nice tip, or you’re on the defensive, thinking on your…
Is this thing on?
Since the recovery from my recent outage, I’ve noticed that none of the normal feed sites where my posts normally show up caught the last post, so this is a test post to see what’s going on, if it was a temporary glitch, or what. If you didn’t see the post linked above, please read…
Ok, that’s it. It’s “lose”. Not “loose”.
Every. Single. Day. This. Happens. I read a *LOT* of online technical documentation. Come to think of it, I read a *LOT* of documentation offline as well. I also occasionally read things like blogs and comments and stuff. In all of my reading, I have found that the most prevalent mistake made by the writer…