In software, simplicity is the key to good design. Users don’t need to struggle with complexity; they want tools that help them work, not get in the way. But tools like dbt Cloud, which should make data transformation easier, do the opposite. Instead of a simple process, they wrap users in layers of Git integration, adding confusion where there should be none.
Whether it’s way back when I used to fumble through htop at work to figure out what’s happening with some on-prem server, or if it’s today when
lazydocker and k9s have grown into critical tools that maximize my productivity,
I’ve always been a huge fan of terminal UIs–especially those that are highly interactive.
In this post I’d like to cover a cool python decorator that’s part of the built-in functools library called @singledispatch. It’s a
favorite of mine and something I’ve been using quite a bit over the past year. I’m surprised how little I see it in projects I come across
so hopefully this post will help it find its way into a repo or two. ;)