Sep 30, 2020Mapbox with React hooksI have a React front-end and wanted to add maps with Mapbox. The first result after googling for react mapbox is a tutorial from the official Mapbox website: Use Mapbox GL JS in a React app. The problem is that the tutorial is component-based, while I wanted to add Mapbox…React4 min read
Published in Mac O’Clock·Apr 11, 2020Reinstalling the Python machine learning environment in my MacThat is conda and python 3.7, tensorflow, keras, numpy, pandas, jupyter, sklearn etc. — Something went wrong with my previous installation of Anaconda on an upgrade and I decided to reinstall it. Debugging it, would have probably taken more time (if possible at all), while a fresh start is always welcome as long as your code and data are secure. And the Anaconda installation…Anaconda4 min read
Apr 9, 2020“It is not speed that kills, it is the sudden stop”Sudden stop: a term coined in 1995 that is suitable today — written with Adamantios Koumpis One watches the global developments of the coronavirus pandemic and grows concerns for what will happen next. …Covid 193 min read
Published in Level Up Coding·Mar 31, 2020A simple DIY website builderBuilding a pipeline that dynamically generates and serves websites through 11ty and NGINX — Let’s get straight to the point. The requirement is as follows: Let’s say I am the owner of example.com and I would like for users to generate through a form their own website, based on a pre-specified theme and by uploading their own data and images. …Website Builders4 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Jan 30, 2020Challenges of data science in talent and in businessA business management perspective — Written by @adamantios.koumpis and @kyrcha — January 2020 Introduction In an article here in Towards Data Science, Haebichan Jung discusses on how we usually tend to overestimate the role of hard skills as exemplified by Data Science projects during the job interview process and elaborates on “softer” skills that actually matter…Data Science13 min read
Jan 29, 2019Make your environment variables more robust by making them more fragileIn the Devit 2016 conference in Thessaloniki, in one of the keynotes, Yegor Bugayenko explained why you need to make your software more fragile, in order to make it more robust. It was a really good talk, a talk that I still remember. …Nodejs3 min read
