project management - Tall, Snarky Canadian

Use TOML for `.env` files?

Feb 9, 2023 5 min read project management

We have some support for .env files in the Python extension for VS Code, but we have noticed some shortcomings with .env files based on user feedback. After getting some inspiration from CircuitPython

Why I don't like SemVer anymore

Jun 12, 2020 5 min read project management

Back in 2017 I wrote a blog post on how I manage version numbers [https://snarky.ca/how-i-manage-package-version-numbers/]. In that post I mentioned how I tried to follow semantic versioning [https://semver.org/

Thoughts on where tools fit into a workflow

May 12, 2020 5 min read project management

I am going to admit upfront that this is a thought piece, a brain dump, me thinking out loud. Do not assume there is a lesson here, nor some goal I have in

How I manage package version numbers

Jul 8, 2017 1 min read project management

I recently helped someone release their first project on PyPI and I was asked why I did version numbers the way I did, so I figured I would share where my current thinking

Designing an async API, from sans-I/O on up

Apr 27, 2017 8 min read project management

While developing the CLA bot for CPython [https://github.com/python/the-knights-who-say-ni] (aka, the Knights Who Say Ni), I decided to make it asynchronous, partially for performance reasons but also because I simply