Welcome to Pytest-BDD’s documentation! — Pytest-BDD 7.3.0 documentation
A BDD plugin for use with pytest.
TypeStrong/ts-node: TypeScript execution and REPL for node.js
Useful-looking tool that makes TypeScript usable on the command line, amongst other things.
Perlisisms - "Epigrams in Programming" by Alan J. Perlis
It’s fascinating to see how many of these have no connection to programming today, but also how many do.
jank programming language - Clojure/LLVM/C++
A project to create a native code compiler for Clojure.
Hofstadter on Lisp: Atoms and Lists, re-printed in Metamagical Themas.
Well-known person writes about well-known programming language. Actually a good read from a historical perspective.
Code review antipatterns
While most of the article is written as a joke, I've seen some of these "dark side" approaches for code reviews done by actual people who don't seem to want to use code review to lift everyone.
Saving this so I can relive the trauma.
How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
Instagram scaled from 0 to 14 million users in just over a year, from October 2010 to December 2011. They did this with only 3 engineers.
They did this by following 3 key principles and having a reliable tech stack.
The comedy and tragedy of detailed feedback
Good opinion piece about code reviews in different environments, contrasting FOSS and corporate styles and impact. I think there’s some good, if obvious, advice in here.
giscus
A widget for blogs and similar that uses GitHub discussions as a comments section. Might be a good idea for my own blog.
A Complete Guide To Behavior-Driven Testing With Pytest BDD
A comprehensive guide to getting started with BDD testing with pytest.
The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
A pretty wholesome story of some "hacking"; hacking in the correct and best sense of the word.
LaunchFlow - Docs
Another IfC solution; native to Python.
Programming, Motherfucker - Do you speak it?
An anti-agile manifesto, pretty much.
How to win at CORS
A comprehensive introduction to CORS.
Remove the "Authority" from Packaging - Packaging - Discussions on Python.org
Turns out the A in PyPA, meaning "authority", was originally intended as a joke. TIL.
Rye and uv: August is Harvest Season for Python Packaging
Blog post about the state of Python packaging in 2024, with a particular emphasis on how uv is going (and in part rye too).
libyear
A simple measure of software dependency freshness. It is a single number telling you how up-to-date your dependencies are.
Exploring the Lisp Family of languages
An exploration of the Lisp family of languages.
Common Lisp Community Survey 2024 Results
Results of the 2024 Common Lisp community survey.
Senior Software Engineer - D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd.
Hey! You! Yes, you! Looking for a senior hacker role? Want to work for the second biggest creator of comics called DC¹? Fancy working in a team and environment that, in my experience, is the nicest group of folk I’ve worked with in the 35 years I’ve been banging on keyboards for money? Think you could cope working with me? (Okay, fine, forget that last part).
Perhaps know someone who might like that?
1: I think. Honestly, I’ve not actually fact-checked that.
WebGPU Unleashed: A Practical Tutorial
A tutorial on getting to grips with WebGPU.
Home - Lambda Forge
A tool for quickly building Lambda functions.
(glisp) - Online iteractive Lisp playground
A fun-looking online interactive Lisp playground; feels like the turtle graphics environments of old but with a Lisp.
wyuenho/emacs-pet: Tracks down the correct Python tooling executables from your virtualenvs so you can glue the binaries to Emacs and delete code in init.el
What looks to be a module for Emacs that helps find the right venv for a project; I think. Saving this to look at at some point in the future.
How boto3 impacts the cold start times of your Lambda functions | tecRacer Amazon AWS Blog
An analysis of how boto3 affects the code start times of AWS Lamdas.
Build Your Own Lisp
A book all about building your own Lisp.
ECMA-17: Graphical representation of control characters (1968)
The document that introduced the graphical representations of control characters.
Astronomical Algorithms
PDF of a book I've long wanted to get my hands on!
What Emacs got right, or how I wish modern apps were more like a 50 year old text editor
Someone's love letter to how everything is a command in Emacs. I tried to sell this approach for Textual, especially when the idea of a command palette was first raised. Sadly it never came to pass.
I think it would still be an excellent idea.
Forsp: A Forth+Lisp Hybrid Lambda Calculus Language
It's a Forth. It's a Lisp. It's lambda calculus. It looks like fun and also something I'd never actually really use.