React Server Components are a bad choice (for shipping)(opens in new tab)
“Making the case that you should not use React Server Components if you want to ship applications quickly. If you want to learn, experiment, or make content, by all means!”
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Site-Speed Topography Remapped(opens in new tab)
Revisiting and remapping my Site-Speed Topography technique for assessing web performance at large
A bicycle for the senses(opens in new tab)
Zsh Global Aliases(opens in new tab)
My favorite zsh feature no one uses
The Right Way to Run Shell Commands From Python(opens in new tab)
Python is a popular choice for automating anything and everything, that includes automating system administration tasks or tasks that require running other programs or interacting with operating system. There are however, many ways to achieve this in Python, most of ...
Merge Sort in Python(opens in new tab)
Third in my series of dives into sorting algorithms is merge sort. Please see bubble sort and selection sort for my previous entries.
Disrupting the Hive: The Inevitable Deconstruction of Office Culture(opens in new tab)
Traditional offices are becoming relics. Productivity and comfort redefine the future of work. Embrace remote or risk obsolescence.
June 2023(opens in new tab)
202: Using Towncrier to Keep a Changelog - Hynek Schlawack(opens in new tab)
Hynek joins the show to discuss towncrier. At the top of the towncrier documentation, it says "towncrier is a utility to produce useful, summarized news files (also known as changelogs) for your project."Towncrier is used by "Twisted, pytest, pip, BuildBot, ...
The Command Pattern in Python(opens in new tab)
The Command Pattern is a behavioral pattern that encapsulates a request or operation as an object. This is advantageous when we may want to defer the execution of some piece of code until later or group and pass around batches ...
Document Driven Meetings(opens in new tab)
Amazon, AWS, Twitch.tv, Whole Foods, Woot, and Audible are among the companies that use document driven meetings to plan new products, features, and processes. This is an example PR/FAQ to help you understand the document format. The format is not ...
Fitting two hard drives and an SSD in a Dell OptiPlex 7010 SFF(opens in new tab)
Update! It turns out that this is a Dell OptiPlex 7010 SFF, not a USFF (as advertised by the eBay seller)! A Dell OptiPlex 7010 SFF I recently bought a Dell OptiPlex 7010 Small Form Factor PC from eBay. I ...
201: Avoid merge conflicts on your CHANGELOG with scriv - Ned Batchelder(opens in new tab)
Last week we talked about the importance of keeping a changelog. This week we talk with Ned Batchelder about scriv, a tool to help maintain that changelog.Scriv "is a command-line tool for helping developers maintain useful changelogs. It manages a ...
Selection Sort in Python(opens in new tab)
Second in my series of dives into sorting algorithms is selection sort. After bubble sort, I wanted to pick another fairly basic algorithm to implement and see if I could optimize it a little further.
Am I the only one that thinks that the direction of React is wrong?(opens in new tab)
“Feels like React is playing his own game by his own rules.”
How I do my to-dos(opens in new tab)
200: Keep a CHANGELOG(opens in new tab)
A changelog is a file which contains a curated, chronologically ordered list of notable changes for each version of a project. This episode is about what a changelog is, with an interview with Olivier Lacan, creator of keepachangelog.com. The next ...
Bubble Sort in Python(opens in new tab)
I’ve always been very focused on building and maintaining large web applications and systems, as such I feel like I skipped over some of the basics early on in my career. Due to this and my curiosity as to how ...
Real Multithreading is Coming to Python - Learn How You Can Use It Now(opens in new tab)
Python is 32 years old language, yet it still doesn't have proper, true parallelism/concurrency. This is going to change soon, thanks to introduction of a "Per-Interpreter GIL" (Global Interpreter Lock) which will land in Python 3.12. While release of Python ...
Golang: Random Numbers(opens in new tab)
Introduction In the 27th post of the series, we will be looking into random number generation in golang. We will be exploring how to create a random number, gen
Testing for slow external Javascript files(opens in new tab)
I recently came across an issue where a web page would “hang”. The page was loaded and everything visible, but all javascript functionality such as click handlers were un-responsive. That was until the page had finished loading a minute later ...
199: Is Azure Right for a Side Project? - Pamela Fox(opens in new tab)
For a web side project to go from "working on desktop" to "live in the cloud", one decision that needs to be made is where to host everything. One option is Microsoft Azure. Lots of corporate sites use it. Is ...
Python's Missing Batteries: Essential Libraries You're Missing Out On(opens in new tab)
Python is known to come with "batteries included", thanks to its very extensive standard library, which includes many modules and functions that you would not expect to be there. However, there are many more "essential" Python libraries out there that ...
198: Testing Django Web Applications - Carlton Gibson, Will Vincent(opens in new tab)
Django has some built in ways to test your application. There's also pytest-django and other plugins that help with testing. Carlton Gibson and Will Vincent from the Django Chat Podcast join the show to discuss how to get started testing ...
A home-cooked app for hiring personal caregivers(opens in new tab)
The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI(opens in new tab)
An exploration of the problems and possible futures of flooding the web with generative AI content
Running a specific knapsack test set locally(opens in new tab)
Sometimes you have a test order issue CI that you want to debug locally, and to do that you need to only run the tests that knapsack runs in the relevant shard, in the right order. Here’s how to do ...
Tmux has forever changed the way I write code.(opens in new tab)
Not only is tmux my favorite way of managing my workspace, but I can honestly say it's the one piece of software that has had the biggest impact on the way I write code
Mastodon Is Doomed(opens in new tab)
Mastodon won't be the next Twitter, and it's not because of Bluesky. The ideals and execution won't scale.
Subclassing, Composition, Python, and You(opens in new tab)
Ever seen a code base where understanding a simple method meant jumping through tangled class hierarchies? We all have! And while “Favor composition over inheritance!” is almost as old as object-oriented programming, strictly avoiding all types of subclassing leads to ...
Computational Notebooks(opens in new tab)
Shareable, browser-based documents that can compile and run code
Kubernetes-Native Synthetic Monitoring with Kuberhealthy(opens in new tab)
When it comes to synthetic testing, engineers often rely on 3rd party platforms such as Datadog or New Relic that provide this type of monitoring. If you're running your applications and services on Kubernetes though, you can spin up synthetic ...
197: Python project trove classifiers - Do you need this bit of pyproject.toml metadata? - Brett Cannon(opens in new tab)
Classifiers are one bit of Python project metadata that predates PyPI. Classifiers are weird. They were around in setuptools days, and are still here with pyproject.toml. What are they? Why do we need them? Do we need them?Which classifiers should ...
Make Your CLI Demos a Breeze with Zero Stress and Zero Mistakes(opens in new tab)
Running live demos can be stressful. You know what you want to say and show. You prepare the CLI commands you want to run to best showcase what you've built, but then you waste time typing long commands; you make ...
196: I am not a supplier - Thomas Depierre(opens in new tab)
Should we think of open source components the same way we think of physical parts for manufactured goods? There are problems with supply chain analogy when applied to software. Thomas Depierre discusses some of those issues in this episode. Links:I ...
Pihole with Windows DNS(opens in new tab)
I’ve had an idea for a bit and wanted to try it out. There’s no reason why it wouldn’t work but I can certainly think of a few reasons why would woudn’t want to do this. Bad Reasons Active Directory ...
User Maintenance Script with PowerShell(opens in new tab)
Throughout my years as a sysadmin, I have needed to synchronize user information and HR data. In a previous job at a university, I developed a script to synchronize Oracle user information with AD data. I have written this script ...
Golang: Regex(opens in new tab)
Introduction In this 26th part of the series, we will be covering the basics of using regular expressions in golang. This article will cover the basic operation
Reduce - The Power of a Single Python Function(opens in new tab)
While Python is not a pure functional programming language, you still can do a lot of functional programming in it. In fact, just one function - `reduce` - can do most of it and in this article I will show ...
Launch Flatpak apps easily from your terminal(opens in new tab)
How to make it easier to launch command line utilities and GUI applications installed with flatpak
Content was king(opens in new tab)
Judging a book by its cover is a great idea. Until content makes a comeback.
Input Output(opens in new tab)
An introduction to codemods(opens in new tab)
Refactoring with effortless consistency.
195: What would you change about pytest? - Anthony Sottile(opens in new tab)
Anthony Sottile and Brian discuss changes that would be cool for pytest, even unrealistic changes. These are changes we'd make to pytest if we didn't ahve to care about backwards compatibilty.Anthony's list:The import systemMulti-process support out of the boxAsync supportChanges ...
Create Static Website on AWS with CDK(opens in new tab)
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