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Open Source Way (@osdc@fosstodon.org) on Logging
A guide to logging in Python
Logging is a critical way to understand what's going on inside an application.
Open Source Way (@osdc@fosstodon.org) on Python
How I patched Python to include this great Ruby feature
Ruby, unlike Python, makes lots of things implicit, and there's a special kind of if expression that demonstrates this well. It's often referred to as an "inline-if" or "conditional modifier", and…
Open Source Way (@osdc@fosstodon.org) on Software Engineering
How to be the right person for DevOps
In my kitchen, we have a sign that reads "Marriage is more than finding the right person. It is being the right person." It serves as a great reminder of the individual responsibility everyone has in…
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Why I rewrote my open source virtual reality server
Look! I wrote a virtual reality (VR) server and published it on GitHub! But why? Well, I'm your typical introverted hacker. I like to play with technology. Whenever something new comes out, I have to…
Code memory safety and efficiency by example
C is a high-level language with close-to-the-metal features that make it seem, at times, more like a portable assembly language than a sibling of Java or Python. Among these features is memory…
Program in Arm6 assembly language on a Raspberry Pi
The Arm website touts the processor's underlying architecture as "the keystone of the world's largest compute ecosystem,"
Turn your Python script into a command-line application
With scaffold and click in Python, you can level up even a simple utility into a full-fledged command-line interface tool.
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