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Tall, Snarky Canadian

Python core developer. Dev manager for the Python extension for VS Code. Tall, snarky Canadian.

  • By Brett Cannon
  • Based in Canada
  • Roughly 14 posts per year
  • First post on

Posts per month

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Posts per month
Month starting Posts
Nov 2021 2
Dec 2021 4
Jan 2022 4
Feb 2022 0
Mar 2022 1
Apr 2022 0
May 2022 0
Jun 2022 0
Jul 2022 0
Aug 2022 0
Sep 2022 0
Oct 2022 1
Nov 2022 3
Dec 2022 1
Jan 2023 3
Feb 2023 1
Mar 2023 3
Apr 2023 0
May 2023 1
Jun 2023 2
Jul 2023 0
Aug 2023 3
Sep 2023 0
Oct 2023 0
Nov 2023 0
Dec 2023 0

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

Why I put in some effort to lower my carbon footprint
I was talking with someone about how Andrea and I have been consciously taking less flights since the pandemic started in order to lower our carbon footprint (Take the Jump suggests a flight under 1500km …
On , by Brett Cannon, 546 words
State of standardized lock files for Python: August 2023
Since people seemed to like my June 2023 post on the state of WASI support for CPython, I thought I would do one for another one of my other long-gestating projects: coming up with a …
On , by Brett Cannon, 1,068 words
Differentiating between writing down dependencies to use packages and for packages themselves
When my teammate Courtney evaluated various workflow tools for Python development to see how pip + venv compared, she came back with a recommendation on using pip's requirements files as a way to record what …
On , by Brett Cannon, 863 words