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 …
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 …
Writing better tests is a lifelong pursuit, apparently.
One thing I've been noticing lately, especially while doing code reviews, is that we are usually thinking about how do I know the code worked.
Great! But we are usually not thinking ahead about what am I going to do when the …
Here's a quick hack to help when you're lost in a too-large Python inheritance tree. What class provides the most specific implementation of a method or attribute?
def find(cls, name):
for sup in cls.mro():
if name in sup.__dict__:
return sup.__name__
return None
def find_all_vars(cls):
for …Thread locals are an interesting idea: a way to give each thread its own storage, useful for global state that you don't want to share between threads.
The obvious caveat is that threadlocals are still effectively global (for the current thread), and like all global state, should be treated with …