It was about time to give my GitHub profile a nice intro so inspired by Simon Willison’s blog post I decided to make an intro Readme that auto-updates. First I made a GitHub repo called bbelderbos, my username. That’s how it works: GitHub defaults to showing the Readme.md of your username’s repo on your profile page.… Continue reading How to create a self updating GitHub Readme
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The Importance of Disconnecting as a Developer
By Hugh Tipping on 30 June 2022
You don’t need library to download the scent of honeysuckle. You can hear the music of a chattering creek without a secure connection or authentication. We spend so much time connected to and with our tech and our code that we forget what it feels like to be connected to the world around us, to… Continue reading The Importance of Disconnecting as a Developer
Give It Just Five Minutes
By Hugh Tipping on 1 April 2022
You know those nights when you want to work on writing or your coding project or side gig? You want to grow outside of the confines of a day-to-day job but you feel like the job has taken everything out of you. You get tired. You feel like you’re on the last bar of the… Continue reading Give It Just Five Minutes
10 Tips to Write Better Functions in Python
By Bob Belderbos on 19 January 2022
In today’s article 10 tips to improve the quality of your Python functions.
Python in Everyday Life
By Jesse Brink on 28 December 2020
In this article Jesse shares how he used Python to leverage his daughter’s homework assignment …
10 Things We Picked Up From Code Reviewing
By Bob Belderbos on 24 September 2020
Here are some things we picked up from code reviews that when addressed can make your code a lot cleaner.
There is More Than One Way to Solve a Bite Exercise
By Harrison Morgan on 21 August 2020
According to the Zen of Python, “There should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it.” It’s a good principle for designing a program: the more ways there are of doing something, the more confusing the software becomes, along with a host of other problems. In reality, though, there almost always is more than one way to accomplish something. The quotation even displays this fact: it places the dash in two different ways, neither of which are the obvious way.
Refactoring Opportunities That Will Boost the Quality of Your Code
By Bob Belderbos on 19 April 2020
Refactoring is all about making your code more maintainable. In this article I will provide you with Python and generic software tips to write better code.
There’s no Wrong Way… to Eat a Bite of Py
By AJ Kerrigan on 27 November 2019
There are many ways to tackle a Bites of Py exercise, try them all!
Using Python Requests on a Page Behind a Login
By Julian Sequeira on 9 June 2017
In this post I discuss using the requests module on web pages behind a login