I just released a new version (0.6.1) of Spydey today.
Spydey is a link checker, basically. Written in Python. The reason I initially wrote it (a long time ago) was for quickly finding broken links on sites that I develop. And then I got interested in thinking about …
I love using git bisect and git bisect run to know when things broke, but that only works if the commit history is generally clean - ie there are aren't commits with broken tests.
The basic idea, given a failing test, and a test command (for the sake of illustration let's …
I had forgotten that I wrote this 10 years ago while I worked at Bitly. Looks like the old Bitly tech blog isn't much maintained, but there's still some gems there:
Getting more clues from Python’s logging module
Not a bad little article. Nowadays we tend to rely more …
I haven't posted much since starting at Recurse in July 2023 and extending my initial 6-week half-batch to a full 12 weeks. Here's a belated update on what I did in the second half!
First, I did experiment more with the "game" prototype that I started …
Updated Feb 2024: Starting properly on MacOS; Completion demo; "peek" find demo.
For some years, I've got by with a gradually evolving set of Emacs extensions and configuration to make me productive and happy while working with Python. I tend to be slow to adopt new tools once I've got …
Blogging again. A lot has happened in four years.
One recent slice of it: I got laid off from Shopify in May 2023. It was an emotional gut-punch beyond what I could have imagined. If you've been through it, you know.
One of the best things I did to pick …