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Old platter based hard drives are really slow compared to some newer SSD technology, but they are still cheap!
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I ran into a slightly weird issue with Pelican, here's how I debugged it.
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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.
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Getting CORS to work can be a pain, here's an annoying issue I ran into with flask.
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Good tools are important and organizations that shut down progress on this front don't succeed longer term.
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How you can use sentinel objects to define default parameters in Python without running into the mutable default parameter pitfall.
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Being familiar with the implications of Python's data model will help you be able to make more intuitive APIs.
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One of the not so nice things about legacy installable python packages is the executable nature of setup.py files. This means amongst other things that you can't reliably determine the contents of some setup.py files without arbitrary code execution. This is what led to PEP 518 which specified a declarative metadata format that can be stored in easy to parse file. Updating is a pain though, but thankfully there's some tooling that makes this easier as I found out recently.
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Here's how you can create your own user events in Pygame.
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