Kara Swisher, Pelagius, The Economist, Djikstra, the essay of the year (Everything is a Practice, doubt something could beat that) and more… — ‘On With Kara Swisher’: Sam Altman on the GPT-4 Revolution https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/03/on-with-kara-swisher-sam-altman-on-the-ai-revolution.html Podcast with the head of OpenAI, but the most memorable is Kara’s view on risk and a generational take. Altman is another young optimist, similar to what we have seen with the coming of the internet in the 90s, and there were many downsides (weaponization) that they were not…

ASCII is the default encoding for bytes objects: there’s no plain text (remember The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) — Joel on Software)! — The hashlib module in Python provides a common interface to many different secure hash and message digest algorithms. Included are the FIPS secure hash algorithms SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, and SHA512 (defined in FIPS 180–2) as well as RSA’s MD5 algorithm (defined in internet RFC 1321).

The aim of this page📝 is to understand monkeypatching as a fixture, which is not a mock — to make sense of unit testing terminology, using Python’s Pytest, with a particular example and a usable syntax. — First of all, monkeypatch setattr method allows you to “simulate” the product of any function to whatever you want — for example… This is the tested function This is the unit test the call of get_selected_stack() is - at runtime - replaced by ...a call to lambda defined to simply and always return the tuple ("1", "aws_mini")

The aim of this page📝 is to describe the creation of a context manager on the example of a function that goes to a specified folder ⟹ executes a random function ⟹ returns to where it started — without having to handle the journey there and back each time manually — Context manager is a built-in Python protocol implemented via the with statement In Python, we have the with statement that replaces the need to use pair statements ...such as open() and close() for file handling

The aim of this page📝 is to share the hack for quickly opening markdown files with images and formatting in Chrome — Install Markdown Viewer Install fzf, ideally also see https://andrew-quinn.me/fzf/ Put the following into your terminal profile — I’m on Windows and use PowerShell, but ideally this should work cross-platform with a bit of tweaking function chf {chrome $PWD/$(fzf)} In terminal just run chf ⟹ select a file ⟹ it opens in Chrome immediatelly properly rendered by Markdown Viewer

The aim of this page📝 is to illustrate the chapter about finite state machines from Pragmatic Programmer with my little implementation. — First, let’s look at the real-life finite-state machine This is a Terraform log file reducer Every day, certain alerts are fired that warn about the existing “drift”, i.e. planned infrastructure config changes — they need to be looked at and decided if we’re good to apply, or we need to contact a client (as this is a managed…

Ukraine, AI and Louis CK :) — A Devastating Moment of Clarity in Ukraine — Tablet Magazine https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/devastating-moment-clarity-ukraine The Future of the Modern Data Stack in 2023 https://towardsdatascience.com/the-future-of-the-modern-data-stack-in-2023-b08c2aed04e2 Thinking about Tracking Design, Part 1: What is tracking anyways? https://randallhelms.substack.com/p/thinking-about-tracking-design-part?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1240188&post_id=105545888&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

The aim of this page📝 is to share my scattered thoughts about the upcoming, 4th revolutionary wave in the history of computing. These are, of course, just opinions based on the superb The End of the Beginning — Stratechery by Ben Thompson and a bunch of (unattributed) podcasts and conversations. — We started from the premise that the beginning of the history of computing ended with the stabilization of the big players (~FAANG + Microsoft) around 2010 after the rise of the Cloud and smartphones.

The aim of this page📝is to introduce the concept of relative imports in Python. Although they… Can reduce typing in deeply nested package structures Promote a certain form of modifiability (to potentially rename top-level and subpackages) …the consensus is to avoid relative import in most cases In any case, the…