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Good developers care about their tools - 2020 October 15
Good tools are important and organizations that shut down progress on this front don't succeed longer term.
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Default parameters and sentinel objects - 2020 August 18
How you can use sentinel objects to define default parameters in Python without running into the mutable default parameter pitfall.
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Fixing the bug with the series sort order - 2020 July 12
The plug in I was using to make series of posts on here doesn't actually sort them the way I'd want so I made some changes to fix this.
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Natural sorting and pelican series - 2020 July 12
Looks like the plug in I was using to make series of posts on here doesn't actually sort them the way I'd want.
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A handy git command - 2020 July 11
git pull --rebaseis quite a useful command, I use it a lot when I'm working on this blog.
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Python's data model and intuitive operators - 2020 July 11
Being familiar with the implications of Python's data model will help you be able to make more intuitive APIs.
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Git preview for a single file? - 2020 June 21
I'd really like to be able to give people access to a single file in a Git repository without having to share the whole repository with them. This would really help in situations where people are looking for feedback on something.
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PHP turns 25 - 2020 June 08
PHP is now a quarter of a century old!
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The MIT licence is community hostile - 2020 June 02
The more I think about the MIT licence the more I think it encourages freeloading and other community hostile behavior. It also has very substantial issues with software patents that can, and do, derail projects.
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PyPi web API - 2020 May 12
PyPi has a web API that will give you JSON encoded information about packages.
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