It’s another year, and that means it’s time for another PyCon US. This event offers an opportunity to bring together a vibrant and diverse community of engineers, data scientists, researchers, students, and enthusiasts who use the Python programming language for work and for fun. It also presents a unique opportunity to highlight entrepreneurs building...

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I released a new Swift library, DotEnvy. It's a parser and loader for dotenv files. Dotenv is a vaguely specified format that is supported by libraries found for most languages used in server-side development. The idea is that a twelve-factor app is supposed to read its configuration from environment variables, which can be a hassle to maintain during...

fzf is one of my favorite shell tools. I have a ton of scripts where I use it for selection. Here's one for searching git history. git log -Gpattern allows you to search for commits that contain pattern in the patch text. Combine it with fzf and you get a pretty decent history search tool. I have this saved as ~/bin/git-search-log, so I can invoke...

In Python, "change" can mean two different things. Assignment changes which object a variable points to. Mutation, changes the object itself. Table of contents Remember: variables are pointers Mutating a list Mutation Assignment Assignments versus mutations Changing variables and...

In this episode, I worked on the settings page for the user. This was a vital addition because it allows users to access the Stripe billing portal and close their account if they no longer wish to use JourneyInbox.