docs: add v0.5.0 blog post

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Make awesome display tables using Python.

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docs: add v0.5.0 blog post #309

Closed machow closed 2 months ago

machow commented 2 months ago

This PR adds a blog post on how we made pandas an optional dependency in v0.5.0.

Note:

I left v0.5.0 out of the title. My thinking was that I went so far overboard in explaining how we removed a hard dependency (and why), that it might now be a general interest post 😅. And figured v0.5.0 might signal a more run of the mill release post. idk I'll do anything with the title I submit it to the will of the people.

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machow commented 2 months ago

@rich-iannone I feel like I still need to do a clean up pass, but would love to get your feedback!

rich-iannone commented 2 months ago

@machow I just read through it and it flows wonderfully. It was an interesting read as well, with just the right length of material.

I don’t think any of the content needs to be changed at all. Let me know if you’d like me to proofread after your next round of edits!

rich-iannone commented 2 months ago

Shoot, I forgot to mention one possible change. We don’t actually use webcolors to translate color names to hexadecimal color codes (we have a dictionary for that). And we are probably going to remove that small dependency according to https://github.com/posit-dev/great-tables/issues/282.

Given all this, could you find another example of a small dependency we use in the package?

machow commented 2 months ago

We don’t actually use webcolors

Ah, thanks for catching---I'll take it out, and leave the Babel example (if it looks accurate)!

rich-iannone commented 2 months ago

I added a few take-it-or-leave-it suggestions. These are mostly fixes for naming consistency.

machow commented 2 months ago

@rich-iannone okay I think it might be ready to go. Do you want to merge / flag anything?!

rich-iannone commented 2 months ago

There’s one more thing: change the publication date to today’s. Then it’s ready to go!