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...
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Print to the console in Python without UnicodeEncodeErrors
I can’t believe I just found out about this! If you use Python with unicode data, such as Django database records, you may have seen cases where you print a ...
Saving for Retirement as a Software Engineer
Take 100 young Americans starting out at age 25. By age 65, one will be rich and four will be financially independent. The remaining 95 will reach the tra...
Development on a Mac versus Linux
I love the Mac computing experience. Their laptop hardware, like their phones, feel solid and elegant. OSX usability is excellent, though it is myopically ge...
Writing a Python decorator that can be called as a function or a callable
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Faster Django/sqlite runserver with /dev/shm
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Hacking Django runserver to run multiple Django instances
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Subclassing Django’s runserver causes command to be run twice
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Using grep from inside vim
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