Dj Blaze Mix
Anthony Small
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Blaze Ward writes science fiction in the Alexandria Station universe as well as The Collective. There are also some superhero tales in Modern Gods. And he writes fantasy stories with several characters and series, from an alternate Rome to epic high fantasy in the desert. You can find out more at his website www.blazeward.com, as well as Facebook, Goodreads, and other places.
Yeah, this would be amazing, I use this a ton for my Zendesk replies but often when I am on the subway and am working on the go and I know I have a textblaze response I won't respond to a ticket until I get to the office because I know that clip is much more effective than anything I could type out on my phone
Agreed, I paid for a premium version just because I wanted to support the author even for the part that is just the Google Chrome plug-in. The solution works great. With the exception of the way the text shortcuts work because they are always conflicting. So I just use the context menu.
I would change to a paid plan if there is an Android version!! It makes no sense for my workflows just to use Text Blaze only on my Windows PC, not on my Smartphone, not on my Tablet PC. I am changing the devices all over the day. It disrupts my productivity very much!! Why must this be?
A small version of this functionality is part of the Microsoft Swiftkey keyboard for Android. I have used it for years, even before they were acquired by MSFT. It is in the clipboard feature - you pin text and give it a shortcut... when the shortcut is typed, the expansion is predicted & entered. I'm new here, I'm recreating my Swiftkey shortcuts here to see if I can get Android functionality on desktop Chrome!
As for desktop and mobile versions, I assure you they are high on our to-do list. If you'd like to see Text Blaze on other platforms too, such as Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, etc, please tell us here: Text Blaze for other platforms
Think multiple Admin-, Back- and Frontend-Interfaces for users in different roles. Think lots of different views. Custom & Handcrafted UI & Styling, all built on a fork of a CSS / UI Framework abandoned years ago (Meteor-Ionic, Based on Ionic Framework 1 I think ). SCSS, obviously.
The sentence above is designed to induce terror in anybody having built anything substantial on Blaze, to get in gear to get more eyeballs to look at this & finally start converting their apps to ASYNC!
Also its data-available-everywhere model when using the minimongo liberally leads to really big issues with data not being fetched centrally, but things being re-run granularly in all different kinds of places in more complex projects / templates.
There are measures to work around this, but they all orbit around the idea of trying to store the current computation somewhere, locally, and passing it into and around all reactive code, around the async/await callbacks, mostly using lexical scoping.
This PR: # Allow await-ing autoruns by adding firstRunPromise to computation objects adds a new, await-able field, Computation.firstRunPromise to newly created computations to allow autorun blocks with async autorun functions to be run in a predictable manner.
b) we can continue to try to mitigate issues the best we can as they pop up and try to convert our existing codebases to ASYNC - for the short term. But Blaze will probably never become a fully supported citizen of the ASYNC world of Meteor 3.0 .
Also really nice to see that some of the old fellow meteor experts are around - props to @radekmie (thanks for putting react autoform out - it had helped me a lot back in the days) and @dr.dimitru I think I once used some mongo package of yours.
I have been out of the dev-game for a while now but still look back with a LOT OF LOVE to meteor. I really hope that you guys find a good solution for this. In my world I had left blaze for good and switched to react with meteor.
I would like to emphasize that Blaze is important to us and we care about it. In fact, most of the work done by @radekmie was during the partnership that Meteor Software had with Vazco. @radekmie is very knowledgeable, a great developer and our team loved working with him.
I agree we could find a way to centralize the work and discussion around Blaze. I tried to find some discussions we had on Slack, but unfortunately the messages were removed due to it being a free account. My suggestion is to use the GitHub Discussions, creating a new one just for this.
We use dask.array, a small cluster on EC2, and distributed Read dask distributed Wed 28 October 2015
PyData on HDFS without Java by Matthew Rocklin We use snakebite and distributed to run Pandas on CSV data in HDFS
tl;dr: We use dask to accelerate parameter searches over machine learning pipelines by naming consistently. Read dask sklearn dasklearn Wed 16 September 2015
Analyzing 1.7 Billion Reddit Comments with Blaze and Impala by Daniel Rodriguez and Kristopher Overholt Blaze is a Python library and interface to query data on different storage systems. Blaze works by translating a subset of modified NumPy and Pandas-like syntax to databases and other computing systems. Blaze gives Python users a familiar interface to query data living in other data storage systems such as SQL databases, NoSQL data stores, Spark, Hive, Impala, and raw data files such as CSV, JSON, and HDF5. Hive Read blaze impala hive reddit Tue 08 September 2015
Analyzing Reddit Comments with Dask and Castra by Jim Crist The scientific Python ecosystem is great for doing data analysis. Packages like NumPy and Pandas provide an excellent interface to doing complicated computations on datasets. With only a few lines of code one can load some data into a Pandas DataFrame, run some analysis, and generate a plot of the results. However, this workflow starts to falter when working with data that's larger than the RAM on your computer. At this point people often move their workflow from a Python based one into some other larger system like Spark or Hadoop. These are great at what they do, but for small problems are a bit overkill Read dask castra reddit
Talks and Tutorials
- Scale your data, not your process. Welcome to the Blaze ecosystem.
EuroPython 2015, Christine Doig
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