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Distributing Vagrant base boxes securely
Vagrant is typically used to provide local, uniform and repeatable development virtual machines. Repeatable is given little importance in the documentation, ...
Better debugging through healthy living
Debugging code is more of an art than a science. It’s an art form that you will have plenty of time to practice as a software engineer.
Loading classes from modules with reflection in Python (imp module)
For a dynamic language, it’s more difficult than it needs to be to import a module dynamically in Python. It’s very easy to just from foo import bar, but wha...
Reload Python inside uWSGI as fast as humanely possible
The Django development web server you get when you execute ./manage.py runserver optimizes for one thing; fast hot reloading when you change your Python code...
Multi-level argparse in Python (parsing commands like git)
It’s a common pattern for command line tools to have multiple subcommands that run off of a single executable. For example, git fetch origin and git commit -...
Speed up your Vagrant NFS shares with cachefilesd
Most web based tech startups are deploying to cloud hosted Linux machines. At the same time, only a small percentage of engineers actually run Linux on their...
Celery fail silently context manager
Celery ships with an configuration option called CELERY_ALWAYS_EAGER which causes all tasks to be executed immediately instead of being asynchronously execut...
Limiting Project Scope and Optimizing for Shipability
Observe that for the programmer, as for the chef, the urgency of the patron may govern the scheduled completion of the task, but it cannot govern the actu...
Python script to delete merged git branches
One of the great things about git is how fast it is. You can create a new branch, or switch to another branch, almost as fast as you can type the command. Th...