Justin Smethers
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I'm Justin.

This site will be a collection of notes, write-ups, projects, thought out posts, garbage, and occassional breakthroughs. Mostly about data.

Building a new feature entirely on my phone with Codex

  • Oct 10, 2025
  • POST

How I added post tags for this website using only my phone, OpenAI's Codex, and GitHub Mobile

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Fluent Python notes part 3 (chapter 11)

  • Sep 8, 2025
  • NOTES

Consolidated notes from Fluent Python part 3 covering chapter 11

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Modern Python packaging with uv

  • Sep 5, 2025
  • TALK

A meetup talk

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Fluent Python notes part 2 (chapters 7-10)

  • Sep 1, 2025
  • NOTES

Consolidated notes from Fluent Python part 2 covering chapters 7 through 10

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Fluent Python notes part 1 (chapters 1-6)

  • Aug 17, 2025
  • NOTES

Consolidated notes from Fluent Python part 1 covering chapters 1 through 6

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Simplifying Python development with uv

  • Dec 5, 2024
  • TALK

A meetup talk

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Vector similarity search in the browser with DuckDB

  • Jun 5, 2024
  • WIP

WIP - Exploring vector similarity search in the browser using DuckDB-WASM

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Sentiment analysis using Ollama

  • May 14, 2024
  • WIP

WIP - Exploring the ollama-python package to analyze text data

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Accelerating Python data analysis with DuckDB

  • May 2, 2024
  • TALK

A meetup talk

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1 billion row challenge in Python

  • Mar 24, 2024
  • POST

Processing 1 billion rows with various Python packages

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