Things that are crossing my path lately: Flit, in context of "Python Packages and You." Python packaging is not a strength of mine.I hate to say it, but the Democrats' rejection of Trump's offer to open negotiations about the government…
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Things I've learned recently: If you really want to know if you have value, post something of questionable worth on the Internet. You'll immediately have a bunch of people correcting you. That's not to say you should post anything harmful…
Things I think I've learned today: Blogs are so yesterday, man. It's probably the medium and platform I've chosen - I don't use Medium, for example, although I have an account there - and I don't publish often enough, or…
Things I've learned today: tox is a Python library designed to "standardize testing in Python" - including testing a given project across Python versions (so you could use it to create a library for both Python2 and Python3, and test…
This is a record of my experiences parsing JSON in a REST service written with Django, in Python. I'm following various tutorials (including Django's REST framework tutorial), but I was really struggling to get a snippet of JSON actually processed…
"Test-driven development" is one of those things that causes hives among some programmers, who immediately stand up and plant the claim that it's worthless, peurile, deceptive, and generates awful code... never mind that others manage to use it effectively. I…
Recently, someone said that I needed to put more of the things with which I'm experienced on my resumé. They're right, but it's not an easy task, for a few reasons. The main reason is that it's too long. If…