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This is a non-exhaustive list of the tools I use in my day-to-day operation for design, development, and life as a human. If I’m missing something, let me know! Hardware Main Computer — 2023 MacBook Pro, 14-inch, 16GB M2 Webcam ...
A change starts with a story.
Four principles to set you on the right path.
Effects are a part of your data flow.
They’re a whole different Pokémon.
Sometimes I can’t fall asleep.
The other kind of technical debt.
The charlock_holmes gem can be a PITA to install on a mac, this is what worked for me. If you get this error: gem install charlock_holmes -v '0.7.7' Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing charlock_holmes: ...
How I learned to stop worrying and love refs.
An in-depth description of the React programming model.
Just because we can, doesn’t mean we should.
What is the 🐞(n) of your API?
We need to go deeper.
What makes UI engineering difficult?
We have more ways to manage dependencies in Python applications than ever. But how do they fare in production? Unfortunately this topic turned out to be quite polarizing and was at the center of a lot of heated debates. This ...
We run our backup job schedules based on the tags assigned to the VM. This keeps it relatively simple and to add a system to a backup job you only need to tag it, not go into another software and ...
We'll add some custom functionality to the composer package we created in part one to create a Laravel boilerplate with things set up just how we prefer.
Laravel provides frontend scaffolding, but you may want a more customized boilerplate to start projects from. Learn to create your own package to do just that!
Follow along as I set up a macOS desktop from scratch. Development environments, apps, code editors, all the settings, and some useful shortcuts!
The DevOps movement gave us many ways to put Python applications into production. But how can you practically structure and configure your applications to make them indifferent to the environment they run in? How do secrets fit into the picture? ...
Most Python programmers don’t spend a lot of time thinking about how equality and hashing works. It usually just works. However there’s quite a bit of gotchas and edge cases that can lead to subtle and frustrating bugs once one ...
Proper cleanup when terminating your application isn’t less important when it’s running inside of a Docker container. Although it only comes down to making sure signals reach your application and handling them, there’s a bunch of things that can go ...
I’ve seen quite a bit of the world thanks to being invited to speak at conferences. Since some people are under the impression that serial conference speakers possess some special talents, I’d like to demystify my process by walking you ...
No matter whether you run a web app, search for gravitational waves, or maintain a backup script: reliability of your systems make the difference between sweet dreams and production nightmares at 4am.
Someone asked on Twitter how I made my pasta sauce, so here is the recipe! The base of my Pasta sauce is largely this recipe, except I mostly don’t add mozzarella: At it’s simplest I can make the whole thing ...
Wouldn't it be great if we could quickly access the exact Laravel documentation page you need right from your code editor? Now you can!
The Python standard library is full of underappreciated gems. One of them allows for simple and elegant function dispatching based on argument types. This makes it perfect for serialization of arbitrary objects – for example to JSON in web APIs ...
If your Python decorator unintentionally changes the signatures of my callables or doesn’t work with class methods, it’s broken and should be fixed. Sadly most decorators are broken because the web is full of bad advice.
This article was originally posted on the Universal Mind blog in June 2016. It’s come to my attention lately that my kitchen is absolutely riddled with poor experiences. Most of the appliances and apparatus one uses on a day-to-day basis ...
To get real time insight into running applications you need to instrument them and collect metrics: count events, measure times, expose numbers. That used to be a clusterfuck of technologies and approaches. Prometheus changes that.
Since the inception of wheels that install Python packages without executing arbitrary code, we need a static way to encode conditional dependencies for our packages. Thanks to PEP 508 we do have a blessed way but sadly the prevalence of ...
The padlock that had seized shut on my back gate was proving hard to remove, the hardened steel U was not yielding to my hacksaw. I noticed some rivets underneath that turned out to be soft steel. 10 minutes of ...
My completely anecdotal view on the state of Python 3 in 2016. Based on my own recent experience, observations, and exchanges with other members of the Python community.
Don’t use Python’s hasattr() unless you’re writing Python 3-only code and understand how it works.
Why “Use bcrypt.” is not the best recommendation (anymore).
How to ensure that your tests run code that you think they are running, and how to measure your coverage over multiple tox runs (in parallel!).
Random graph, from playing around with RGL in Ruby. I like it, but it's pointless
Say you have a graph like this: A simple graph How do you find out if there is a path between any of the two nodes? By using a breadth-first search: require 'rgl/implicit' require 'rgl/traversal' vertices = ["one", "two", "three"] ...
Your Python applications are running but you’re wondering what they are doing? The only clue about their current state is the server load after ssh-ing into the servers? Let’s change that!
