Assorted ramblings
When working on performance with Postgres the EXPLAIN tool is incredibly useful. Sometimes the raw output from this is a bit hard to read. Recently I've come across a tool that creates a highly readable output of this:
https://explain.depesz.com/
Functools provides a decorator called cached_property in python 3.8+.
pdfsizeopt is a tool that can reduce the filesize of pdf files.
How to set the SSH key to be used when cloning a git repository.
Pylint is a very powerful tool but it's also hard to use effectively.
I ran into a slightly weird issue with Pelican, here's how I debugged it.
Just as the Covid pandemic was starting I ran a workshop that was easily the worst one I've run in my career. Despite things going poorly there was a huge learning opportunity that I'm glad I had. The banking industry has changed dramatically and I wasn't prepared for it.
Getting CORS to work can be a pain, here's an annoying issue I ran into with flask.
Piping the output of curl into bash is a bad idea for a lot of reasons, please don't do it and don't suggest that other people do it either.
Forward type annotations are significantly easier in Python 3.7+ since PEP 563 landed in the language, here's how you can use them.