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I wrote a Parquet viewer in Rust to avoid running SQL for the PM

May 28, 2025 · 2 min read · Every data team knows the drill: a PM needs to “just take a quick look” at some Parquet data. That usually means asking an engineer to write SQL or spin up a tool to pull a few rows. It’s a small ask, but one that happens often enough to slow everyon...

🤯TIL for...else exists in Python

Feb 23, 2023 · 3 min read · Today, I learned that you can pair an else clause with a loop statement such as for or while. It looks like this: for i in iterator: # do something else: # do something else This may look quite counterintuitive for the first time, but we wil...

Why is my Rust code blocking???

Dec 7, 2022 · 2 min read · Rust is a low-level programming language known for its performance and safety. We'll look at why my first attempt to use std::process resulted in blocking. Problem The code snippet below is an example of a Rust program that can potentially block. It ...

Introducing Cronify

Aug 3, 2022 · 1 min read · Cronify is a simple and easy-to-use utility that helps you schedule your cron jobs using Natural Language Processing (NLP). What is a cron job? A cron job is a scheduled task that is executed at a specified time or interval. Cron is a time-based job ...