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This month marks my one year time with Culture Amp. Culture Amp is a tech company based in Melbourne, Australia that builds an employee feedback platform. The Culture Amp platform helps companies to collect, understand and act on their employee feedback to develop a Culture-First company. I still remember when I joined the company as an intern while I’m still finishing my Master of Information Technology course at The University of Melbourne. It’s been a great experience since then, where I learn a lot about real-world data science applications, and organizational psychology and experienced directly the time when the company is in its hyper-growth without losing its core values. This month is the end of 2018, and within this post, I’d like to take a bit of reflection on my experience at Culture Amp and share an exciting plan that I’m looking forward to in 2019

In my previous post, I have briefly describe my current python development workflow using a combination of `virtualenv`, `pyenv`, and `pyenv-virtualenv`. It's been great for me and serve my workflow very well. But recently, my colleague at work, introduce me with a package call [`pipenv`](https://pipenv.readthedocs.io/en/latest/). I look into the website and, it seems promising in terms of makes my workflow more convenient.

Last weekend I attended PyCon AU 2018 in Sydney. This is the first conference that I attend that specifically focus on one programming language. I've been to a couple of tech conferences before like YOW Conference and NDCSydney but both are general technology conferences. This post is my personal notes on all of the sessions that I attend during the conferences. One thing that I learn from this conference is, python community is really big and very welcoming, and it's been a great time for me to learn and meet with many people from that conference.

I've been using Python programming language professionally for a year now. Previously, I only use python mostly on my uni assignment or some side project work using Raspberry Pi. Since the first time I know python, I have been used a combination of `virtualenv` and `virtualenvwrapper` to manage my local python virtual environment and set up my python development workflow. If you are not using virtual environment on your development workflow, I suggest you to start using it because it will save you with many problems in regards to package versioning and also makes your system environment clean.

With the recent Spectre/Meltdown event I decided to do a clean install to my early 2015 13" macbook pro. I have a couple of times did clean install for my laptop, it's interesting because you can always have a new initial setup for every clean install that you did. In this post, my initial setup for new macbook or a macbook with a clean os installation.