Month summary — March 2024

How to keep a roomful of programmers entertained when your competition is the internet.

… I’ve been thinking about git branches a lot. I keep hearing from people that they find the way git branches work to be counterintuitive. It got me thinking: what might an “intuitive” notion of a branch be, and how is it different from how git actually works?

Hello! I posted a comic on Mastodon this week about what’s in the .git directory and someone requested a text version, so here it is.

A recent paper I encountered suggests that the rate of learning among students doesn’t actually differ all that much. Instead, what differs mostly between students is their prior knowledge.

The dangers of letting PMs control them

The End of Time

This post will list some of the major decisions made and if I endorse them for your startup, or if I regret them and advise you to pick something else.

Some things appear to be mistakes, but in fact should be celebrated as the expected outcomes of great decisions.

You don’t need a to-do list, you need a system you can trust.

I am going to give you some suggestions on how to study efficiently. They worked for me when I was in high school, college, and graduate school.

First of all I would suggest making sure you test the function as good as you can. More often than not I found small issues with the new implementation by simply running tests for the old code against the new one.

Best practices for building an understandable, maintainable and scalable home for your custom logic

>>> help()

… most people only know that Requests does the right things for them for TLS and some other HTTP behaviour, but I doubt anyone understands just how bad the project is internally.

All the guides I’ve seen about adding Google Sign to Django make it overly complicated (e.g., Django-allauth or Django-social-auth).

An extremely fast Python package installer and resolver, written in Rust. Designed as a drop-in replacement for common pip and pip-tools workflows.

PostgreSQL-based Task Queue for Python.

Prettymapp is a webapp and Python package to create beautiful maps from OpenStreetMap data.

Hunt down the lines of your Django application code which are responsible for executing the most queries.

The macOS menu bar app to picture-in-picture any window.

The Google Cloud Architecture Framework provides recommendations and describes best practices to help architects, developers, administrators, and other cloud practitioners design and operate a cloud topology that’s secure, efficient, resilient, high-performing, and cost-effective. The Google Cloud Architecture Framework is our version of a well-architected framework

This video course is designed to equip developers with the essential skills and insights necessary for excelling in behavior-based interviews.

Introducing Intel One Mono, an expressive monospaced font family that’s built with clarity, legibility, and the needs of developers in mind.