Blogs about Development

ALTView on TwitterTwitter is removing the free API access, which will have the inevitable consequence of driving most twitter bots into extinction. I’ve written a fair bit about art bots over the years, since they’re …

The examples used here are from the weekly challenge problem statement and demonstrate the working solution. File Index "ch-1.pl" Defined by 1. "ch-2.pl" Defined by 5. Part 1: Defang IP Address You are given a …

When I set out to build a history module for my bashrc/profile, the dearth of code re-use and collaborative ~unixy modularity struck me as a little sad. I knew early on that I wanted to …

I wonder whether it would be that difficult to have constant Component instances rather than creating them dynamically? Kent Beck haunts me.

I started a new gig yesterday. While I can’t talk about the specifics, I can say it’s going to be an interesting one. This will be a very Azure-heavy project, so there are lots of …

I hereby confess that the “niceties” of a functional lab image have never been my priority. Part of a unified look-and-feel for any computer are the login-screen background, the default user wallpaper, and the lock …

IntroductionIn March, the official Elixir client for Google APIs received an accidental commit for internal non-public APIs. The commit added support for Google’s Content Warehouse API, which includes Google’s 14,000+ search ranking factors. Oops! Some …

In recent months, there have been increasing attempts to spread malware via some seemingly ‘harmless’ programs, luring the user through rewards such as sending money with cryptocurrency or NFT-themed gifts. The unsuspecting user by running …

I have been working on moving a collection of about 20-30 AWS accounts from two different AWS Organizations into a new AWS Organization with Control Tower enabled. During the process I have run into a …

Just like week 108, I started writing this post late-march, but got so busy that it wasn’t finished and published until May. On March 21, Morten Just posted a tweet that set my brain on …

Inspired by py-free-threading.github.io I decided to try out a beta of Python 3.13 with the new free-threaded mode enabled, which removes the GIL. Installation I chose to use the macOS installer to get a pre-built …

What is Templating? Templating in the sense of this articlee is when there is a text with placeholders that get filled in according to some set of rules (the templating language). Using templating is often …

In August I bought a Kinesis Freestyle Edge keyboard off of eBay. I’ve been using it for about four months now, and I’m typing this review on it. I’d been wanting to try out a …

Kobo Nia (left) and Pocketbook Basic Lux 4 (right) E-readers are lighter and more portable than a stack of paperbacks and offer a library’s worth of choices at your fingertips. While I adore the convenience, …

Last Sunday I flew out eastwards to meet Shannon in Nashville to view the eclipse. I just managed to get a brief glimpse of the city, visiting Broadway the night...

One of the most interesting aspects of SwiftUI, at least from an architectural perspective, is how it essentially treats views as data. After all, a SwiftUI view isn’t a direct representation of the pixels that …

Codable is worth its weight in proverbial gold. Saving developers across the globe the boilerplate code of manual .json serialization and deserialization code — it’s the first choice most of us turn to when decoding …

Indie media (potentially) at its very best.I recently said to a friend:1 Podcasts are audio blogs! With all the good and ill that entails, but in our media culture, mostly good. A small elaboration on …

This is a near-transcript of the talk I gave at PyCon Italia 2024 in May in Florence. Introduction Buongiorno PyconIt, grazie per avermi invitata a parlare! Avrei voluta fare tutto il discorso in italiano, ma …