The reason why #nodejs apps are full of these "micro libraries" is that the standard library lacks basic functionality.

Writing code is #Javascript ist just a huge liability (Same goes for #python IMO).

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13 seats, 13 candidates... wtf? #Python

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Python devs, is this familiar: Your team writes beautiful snake_case code, but every external API wants camelCase.

You could:
- Pollute your codebase with non-Pythonic naming
- Write manual conversion layers
- Live with the friction

Or you could use Pydantic's field aliases to solve this once and for all.

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#Python #Pydantic

When I write tests for code, I often include references to TV or books or other such things.

If I need a text string, I rarely do "Hello World". I used to do "Hello Kitty" but these days I usually use "Hi Bob" (from For All Mankind). I even added a test API header "X-Hi: Bob" the other day. 😁

For errors I often go with "Out of cheese error" or "Divide by cucumber error" from Discworld.

#Code #Python #Pytest #SciFi #Discworld

Days between today and any date with #Python #69

#!/usr/bin/python3
import sys; from datetime import datetime,date
formats=["%m/%d/%Y","%m/%d/%y","%Y-%m-%d","%d-%m-%Y","%d %b %Y","%d %B %Y"]
for f in formats:
try: d=datetime.strptime(sys.argv[1],f).date(); break
except: pass
else: exit("bad format")
print(abs((date.today()-d).days))

@glyph Same laptop, same version of cpython (3.13), same requirements.txt file with pip:

real    2m5.404s
user    0m42.650s
sys     0m5.081s

So 125 seconds versus 14 seconds. Pip and uv calculate dependencies differently, though uv tries to be compatible. Pip did 253 packages and uv did 250. But pip works sequentially, one package at a time. One download at a time. Like many #rust programs, uv is "embarrassingly parallel."

#python

So I just rebuilt my personal #python venv in my home directory on my #linux daily driver laptop. I did pip freeze > requirements.txt to capture all the packages I had installed. Then I took away all the ==a,b.c versioning so I'd install the latest compatible version.

Then I ran uv pip install -r requirements.txt. This blew me way:

$ time uv pip install -r requirements.txt 
Resolved 250 packages in 2.38s
      Built python-ldap==3.4.4
      Built py-cui==0.1.6
      Built docopt==0.6.2
      Built email-normalize==2.0.0
      Built ecos==2.0.14
... bunch of lines...
real    0m14.028s
user    0m11.605s
sys     0m4.131s

Wow. 250 packages in 14 seconds.

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If a highly customisable #python, #scrum or #agile utility actually sounds like something you'd be keen on using, I'd actually really love to know. v0.2 has a couple of significant design changes that would effect calling it as a library or creating your own templates, and I'd love some feedback on the design (probably in a week or two) before I merge it in.

But - `pip install scrummd` will already give you the scrum tool nobody asked for!

Sometimes, when coding your own thing, you do little things to make yourself happy even if it isn't _strictly in scope_ of the feature you're building.

I'm adding writing fields to #ScrumMD. I needed to rewrite the output code to make that work - which meant I'm moving (eventually) all output to Jinja2 templates rather.

And, to make me happy: I added ANSI color when using interactively to the new default template.

#Python #Programming

Alt...

ScrumMD card in terminal. The headings and titles highlighted in color. Text reads: --- cli001: Display basic collection from cards --- status: Done # description A basic collection is a folder in the `scrum` folder containing md cards. By default, all cards are in the inventory. There's no filters being applied at the moment. For now, a card must have a summary. Other fields are optional. Fields are defined either in obsidian style properties: ```md --- Property 1: Value Property 2: Value --- ``` or by the text following a hash header with. A card's index is currently its filename. # cucumber **GIVEN** a collection of cards, and a collection folder _C_. **WHEN** `sbl C` is run. **THEN** a table showing the index and description all the cards in the collection is shown.

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WOOPS I've added OpenBSD support to Exosphere. One thing led to another and uh...

#exosphere #HomeLab #python #devlog #openbsd

Alt...

A screenshot of a terminal showing the output of `inventory status` in the exosphere CLI showing an OpenBSD 7.7 system with 3 updates. The output of `host show` follows, giving the platform details as fully supported, and a table listing package updates with the standard Name, Current Version, New Version, Security and Source columns. The tables are nice colored curses-like, rich widgets.

I did not make any good progress on my project to read GPX data with Python today. (Trying to read speed.) May need to just read it as XML.

There are a bunch of nerds who do Python and bikes though, so someone might have the code example I need.

#biking #bikeTooter #python

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I was laid off recently so I'm looking for a new job!

I have a decade of experience as a web backend dev writing APIs in Python and Ruby in a variety of frameworks. I'm usually the git and Postgres expert on the team, and if you leave me alone I'll start writing tests and doing security updates. Used to help run PyLadies Vancouver, now PyCascades. More: https://hollybecker.net/resume/

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It's 2025 and I am still not 100% sure how to have #PyGame go to sleep and wait for *either* an event from the keyboard/mouse/controller *or* an event from the network *or* a vblank interrupt without some kind of hard-coded polling timeout. Various attempts I've made at this in the past have violated thread safety rules and I'm not sure the documentation even covers all the constraints I need to preserve. #python

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I think the bug I resolved (I wouldn't say fixed) in @novelwriter today is the weirdest I've encountered so far.

The app uses @-based keywords to set meta data in the text. An auto-complete menu pops up to suggest which keyword when you type an @ on a new line.

In the current version (at least) if you have the editor "justified margins" set, type an @, then type backspace, then *and only then* will Qt/PyQt segfault and crash the app.

#Programming #Debug #Cpp #Python #Qt #PyQt

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A #documentary about #Python just got released, and it's really good.

It talks about Python's origins, the founding of the PSF, the Python 2 to Python 3 transition, the struggle to increase diversity, Guido's resignation over the walrus operator, as well as Python's relevance as a language now and in the future.

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@aparrish let the record state that it's 2025 and there's no official Delphi-like #OpenSource RAD IDE for, say, #python. (Python's official GUI toolkit is laughably TCL/Tk). Not even $5 million can be scrounged for funding this, by, say, the #Linux Foundation, which is a sum of money which is next to nothing for them.

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