Yuan Gao

CTO in tech 👨‍💻 Python, Vue.js, Former Electrical Engineer 🤖 Occasional robot robot builder and gamedev 🏆 Forbes 30 Under 30 Enterprise tech

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Yuan Gao

Dec 7 '21

Advent of Code 2021: Day 07 with Python, cheating by using scipy

#python #adventofcode

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Advent of Code 2021: Day 05 with Python, even more numpy

the '+' does an addition, admittedly that should have been an...

Dec 12 '21

Advent of Code 2021: Day 02 with Python, numpy, and affine transformation matrices

good call, thanks I fixed

Dec 4 '21

Live-coding interviews: essential or discriminatory?

I'd agree - most leetcode questions aren't reflective of real...

Aug 24 '21

Advent of Code 2020: Day 02(b) using regex named groups

that doesn't seem like a named groups error, it seems like yo...

Dec 26 '20

LGTM Devlog 0: Teaching Git through playing a game

I was tempted to go with that

Dec 26 '20

Advent of Code 2020 Solution Megathread - Day 24: Lobby Layout

Since I already implemented cellular automata with Tensorflow...

Dec 25 '20

Advent of Code 2020: Day 01 using numpy and vectorized calculations

sure, I know there's some people doing Advent Of Code in C++,...

Dec 24 '20

Advent of Code 2020 Solution Megathread - Day 23: Crab Cups

A bit of linked list action in python. This can be optimized ...

Dec 24 '20

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Yuan Gao

Dec 6 '21

Advent of Code 2021: Day 06 with Python, and numpy.roll()

#python #adventofcode

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Dec 5 '21

Advent of Code 2021: Day 05 with Python, even more numpy

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Dec 4 '21

Advent of Code 2021: Day 04 with Python, and numpy masked arrays

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Dec 3 '21

Advent of Code 2021: Day 03 with Python, and more numpy

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Dec 2 '21

Advent of Code 2021: Day 02 with Python, numpy, and affine transformation matrices

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Dec 1 '21

Advent of Code 2021: Day 01 with Python and numpy's convolution function

#adventofcode #python

2 min read

Yuan Gao

Sep 1 '21

Collecting and processing user-submitted images with Airtable and Firebase

#airtable #firebase #serverless #javascript

9 min read

Yuan Gao

Aug 24 '21

How to set up custom Github webhook notifications on Discord (via Firebase)

#github #javascript #firebase

7 min read

Yuan Gao

Aug 22 '21

PEG Parsers: sometimes more appropriate than Regex

#javascript #programming

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Yuan Gao

Feb 11 '21

LGTM Devlog 39: Planning the story

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Feb 9 '21

LGTM Devlog 38: Sprint 5 Plan

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Feb 8 '21

LGTM Devlog 37: Sprint 4 Retrospective

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Feb 7 '21

LGTM Devlog 36: Character profiles! On GitHub

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Feb 6 '21

LGTM Devlog 35: Responding to the player's answers on GitHub Issues Comments

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Feb 5 '21

LGTM Devlog 34: Characters Posting on GitHub Issues

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Feb 4 '21

LGTM Devlog 33: Using PyGithub to post GitHub issues and comments

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4 min read

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Feb 3 '21

LGTM Devlog 32: Secrets Management to avoid storing API keys in services

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3 min read

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Feb 2 '21

LGTM Devlog 31: Sprint 4 Plan

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Feb 2 '21

LGTM Devlog 30: Sprint 3 Retrospective

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Yuan Gao

Feb 1 '21

LGTM Devlog 29: ORM for Firestore and initsubclass__ dunders and metaclasses

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Yuan Gao

Jan 30 '21

LGTM Devlog 28: Game event loop using Google Cloud Scheduler and PubSub

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Yuan Gao

Jan 29 '21

LGTM Devlog 27: Branching quests

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4 min read

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Jan 26 '21

LGTM Devlog 26: Python Graphlib DAGs for Quest Stages

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5 min read

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Jan 25 '21

Explaining FastAPI and Typer Dependency Injection, and rolling your own in Python

#python #webdev

8 min read

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Jan 24 '21

LGTM Devlog 25: Some cleanup

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Jan 22 '21

LGTM Devlog 24: Sprint 3 plans

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Jan 21 '21

LGTM Devlog 23: Sprint 2 Retrospective

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Jan 20 '21

LGTM Devlog 22: Modularization

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9 min read

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Jan 19 '21

LGTM Devlog 21: Deploying Pub/Sub-triggered Python Google Cloud Functions

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4 min read

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Jan 18 '21

LGTM Devlog 20: Python Abstract Base Class-based data/quest storage

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4 min read

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Jan 15 '21

LGTM Devlog 19: Game data/quest storage

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Jan 14 '21

An AI Twitter bot that only tweets good news, with Python and GPT2

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9 min read

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Jan 13 '21

LGTM Devlog 18: Python Serverless functions using GitHub API to validate users

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5 min read

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Jan 12 '21

LGTM Devlog 17: Website and GitHub OAuth

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4 min read

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Jan 11 '21

LGTM Devlog 16: A serverless data base access rule conundrum

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4 min read

Yuan Gao

Jan 10 '21

LGTM Devlog 15: Sprint 2 plans

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Yuan Gao

Jan 9 '21

CurateBot Devlog 11: New UI Theme and logo, and releasing the app!

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5 min read

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Jan 8 '21

CurateBot Devlog 10: Scheduled Firebase function to send tweets

#showdev #devjournal #javascript #typescript

3 min read

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Jan 8 '21

CurateBot Devlog 9: Drawing an day-of-week/hour scheduler using v-for loops in Vue

#devjournal #typescript #vue #javascript

3 min read

Yuan Gao

Jan 7 '21

CurateBot Devlog 8: Listing Queued Tweets using Firebase compound queries adn custom indexes

#devjournal #twitter #vue #javascript

4 min read

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Jan 7 '21

CurateBot Devlog 7: Curating Tweets

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Jan 6 '21

CurateBot Devlog 6: Form validation for uploading Tweets in JSON format

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4 min read

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Jan 6 '21

CurateBot Devlog 5: Adding Firebase Auth Logout and Vuetify Snackbars

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4 min read

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Jan 5 '21

CurateBot Devlog 4: Adding Firestore profile storage and autologin

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4 min read

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Jan 5 '21

CurateBot Devlog 3: Second steps - adding Firebase and Twitter OAuth

#devjournal #javascript #vue #serverless

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Jan 4 '21

CurateBot Devlog 2: First steps - cleaning up the boilerplate

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Yuan Gao

Jan 4 '21

CurateBot Devlog 1: Vue+Vuex+Vuetify+Firebase boilerplate

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6 min read

Yuan Gao

Jan 3 '21

CurateBot Devlog 0: Simple interface for curating and scheduling AI-generated tweets

#showdev #devjournal #vue #javascript

2 min read

Yuan Gao

Jan 2 '21

LGTM Devlog 14: Sprint 1 Retrospective

#devjournal #serverless #cloud #python

1 min read

Yuan Gao

Jan 1 '21

LGTM Devlog 13: GitHub Branch Protection and Security

#devjournal #github #git #python

2 min read

Yuan Gao

Jan 1 '21

LGTM Devlog 12: CI/CD with GitHub Actions to run Unit Tests and deploy Firebase Functions

#devjournal #devops #github #git

5 min read

Yuan Gao

Dec 31 '20

LGTM Devlog 11: Writing the Serverless Function for receiving GitHub webhooks with Pydantic validation

#devjournal #webdev #github #python

6 min read

Yuan Gao

Dec 31 '20

What makes a "senior" developer? - Empowerment is the antidote to imposter syndrome

#career

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Yuan Gao

Dec 31 '20

LGTM Devlog 10: Capturing the GitHub webhook for fork requests

#devjournal #python #serverless #cloud

3 min read

Yuan Gao

Dec 30 '20

LGTM Devlog 9: Python Google Cloud Functions with Unit Tests and Linting

#devjournal #github #git #python

8 min read

Yuan Gao

Dec 30 '20

Average developer salaries in London/UK for different languages 2019-2020

#career

4 min read

Yuan Gao

Dec 30 '20

LGTM Devlog 8: Starting a git repo for an open source project from scratch

#devjournal #github #git #opensource

4 min read

Yuan Gao

Dec 29 '20

LGTM Devlog 7: Creating a Firebase project

#devjournal #github #git #serverless

2 min read

Yuan Gao

Dec 29 '20

LGTM Devlog 6: Sprint 1 plans

#devjournal #github #git #python

2 min read

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