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This Friday, I’m hosting a morning edition of my office hours, and here is my schedule for the rest of May: Friday, May 9th, 2025, 8am to 10:30am - 🌄 Early edition (Time.is link for CT) Friday, May 16th, 2025: ...
pytest-metadata is described as a plugin for pytest that provides access to test session metadata. That is such a humble description for such a massively useful plugin. If you're already using pytest-html, you have pytest-metadata already installed, as pytest-metadata is ...
You wouldn't download a site.
Islands, but make it fractal.
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pytest-check is a pytest plugin that allows multiple failures per test.Normally, a test function will fail and stop running with the first failed assert. That's totally fine for tons of kinds of software tests. However, there are times where you'd ...
Tags on both sides.
I’ve been a commercial software developer since 2005. I’ve earned a BSc in Computer Science (mostly for the debt), and spent the last two decades writing code at big corporations, scrappy startups, and everything in between. WYSIWYG This blog exists ...
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in April 2025.
I recently came across Simon Willison’s post about Matt Webb’s Apple Watch dictation setup on Interconnected. He records voice notes while running with the Whisper Memos app, then cleans up the transcript with Claude when he gets home. Matt Webb ...
We sit down for a deep-dive conversation with Mischa van den Burg, a former nurse who made the leap into the world of DevOps. We explore the practical realities, technical challenges, and hard-won wisdom gained from building and managing modern ...
p.s. coffee is not breakfast
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AI is helping people write code. Tests are one of those things that some people don't like to write. Can AI play a role in creating automated software tests? Well, yes. But it's a nuanced yes. Anthony Shaw comes on ...
Angie gives us a crash course on Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how you can get started using it with goose. We also talk about other projects Angie's worked on at Block and what drives her to keep learning new ...
Two worlds, two doors.
Read my essay for Naive Yearly 24' about life and the web!
Composing across the stack.
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“Several CTOs mentioned a surprising problem: while React developers are plentiful, truly skilled ones who understand the deeper patterns are increasingly rare and expensive. [...] Several companies reported that their most experienced engineers were getting frustrated with the growing complexity ...
Blogging is back, so why not bring back Webrings, too? The Great Django Webring is a tribute to the early web. It’s a cozy loop of community sites and projects, all linked together jor the joy of discovery. Join the ...
After 25 years in tech it’s hard not to coast. Adriana has come from writing word docs for the ops team to deploy software, through Devops, and now has a focus on OTel and Kubernetes. How do we get more ...
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Disaster recovery is more than automation and infrastructure. There's a lot that goes into your services and some of those things can't be defined as code or automated. When was the last time you restored your database from a backup? ...
pytest-repeat is a pytest plugin that makes it easy to repeat a single test, or multiple tests, a specific number of times. works fine on Python 3.14is tested on Python 3.9-3.14probably works fine still on 3.7 & 3.8This episode also ...
Two things, one origin.
Railway wanted to build a better cloud so they started on Google Cloud and ended up building datacenters. Through the burden of success, they figured out there was a lot of things they had to learn and build themselves if ...
The last several machines I’ve built–and several long-running machines with nothing wrong with them–have suddenly started displaying strange errors regarding Microsoft 365. The affected machines can neither register Office365 apps to the entire machine successfully, nor will they accept user ...
pytest-repeat is a pytest plugin that makes it easy to repeat a single test, or multiple tests, a specific number of times. Note: This was an April Fools attempt, so the statement ..."Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work with Python ...
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in March 2025.
Send people to your domain to start a Signal chat.
You can't grow in technology without learning new things. But sometimes those new things are actually old things. We talk with Scott about a wide range of interests about software, video games, 3D printing, and food. If you want to ...
Oh no! My metrics!
pytest-html has got to be one of my all time favorite plugins. pytest-html is a plugin for pytest that generates a HTML report for test results. This episode digs into some of the super coolness of pytest-html.pytest-htmlrepo readme with screenshotenhancing ...
“Last weekend, Vercel disclosed a critical security vulnerability with Next.js. This type of issue is normal, but the way Vercel chose to handle it was so poor, reckless and disrespectful to the community that it has exacerbated my concerns about ...
A tiny tool to calculate when your baby might arrive
What exactly is an LLM doing and why do you need to learn so many new terms? Steve Pousty is here to explain that most of those new terms are things you already know. It’s not new technology, it’s new ...
