I always write either a year-end or a year-beginning post, depending whether I want to focus on reflection or resolution—or maybe depending on when I get around to it. :) Re-reading my 2014 resolutions post is a little heart-breaking, not only because I was in such a bad place (so…
I started writing my annual changing-of-the-calendar-year post, and I realized I was spilling a lot of virtual ink on, arguably, a pretty small aspect of my year — because, while it’s kind of unimportant, in the scheme of things, it also takes a little explanation. And it’s fun! So, rather…
I thought about writing a really long post about handling Unicode in Python, but, honestly, you should go watch this video; that’s where most of my points would have come from, anyway. (It’s a great video! It’s funny and helpful and relevant, whether you use Python 2 or 3. I…
I had the opportunity, at work (and a bit outside of work), to learn the GitHub API, as wrapped by Python’s github3 module. I found the documentation really hard to follow, maybe because I don’t have a lot of experience reading API docs, or because it wasn’t organized in the…
