Don't just open the door, welcome people through it
During his PyCon US 2015 keynote, Guido stated that we "[wanted] at least two femail core devs" by PyCon US 2016. Guido, Raymond Hettinger, and myself offered to help mentor women
My experience with type hints and mypy
The CLA bot for the PSF is designed defensively because if the bot accidentally lets a pull request through from someone that has not signed the CLA that could lead to legal troubles.
Looking for commonality among HTTP request APIs
It all started when ... While developing the CLA bot for Python I realized this might not be the last bot I or anyone else may have to write for helping with CPython's development
My impressions of Elm
If you know me or have been reading this blog for a couple of years then chances are you know I'm a programming language nut. I not only believe that being a polyglot
Adding syntax highlighting to Ghost's default theme
[This approach as subsequently started to fail for me, so I have switched to the technique outlined for using Prism; it's a bit manual to have to list every language you want highlighted,
Why I changed my blogging platform to Ghost(Pro)
I seem to have committal issues when it comes to blogging platforms. I have gone from Blogger, to Svbtle, to Silvrback, and now to Ghost. I initially blogged on Blogger because I wanted
Why I took October off from OSS volunteering
On October 1, 2016, I stopped volunteering for open source projects -- including Python -- for a month. While I still did open source work for Python as part of my job, I
What to look for in a new TV
I'm kind of an A/V nerd. Now I'm not hardcore enough to have a vinyl collection or have an amp for my TV, but all my headphones cost over $100 and I
Introducing Which Film
What I'm announcing Today I'm happy to announce the public unveiling of Which Film! I'll discuss how the site came about and what drives it, but I thought I would first explain what
Network protocols, sans I/O
Back in February I started taking a serious look at asynchronous I/O thanks to async/await. One of the things that led to me to looking into this area was when I
(Attempting) practical password management
Why the hell do I care about security? Bad people exist out there; it sucks, but there it is. That means you need to take precautionary measures to make sure that bad people
Why pathlib.Path doesn't inherit from str in Python
Over on python-ideas a discussion has broken out about somehow trying to make p'/some/path/to/a/file return an instance of pathlib.Path. This led to a splinter discussion as to