How to Automatically Switch to Rosetta With Fish and Direnv
I love my Apple silicon computer, but having to manually switch to Rosetta-enabled shells for my Intel-only projects was a bummer.
Read moreToday Hynek Learned
TIL stands for today I learned and is my place for collecting small, practical nuggets that I just learned – or explained to someone – and thought they’re too useful to let them vanish in the ethers of Twitter or GitHub comments. Please see the blog post announcing this section for details.
They have their own RSS feed and I tweet whenever I publish.
How to Fix the set-output GitHub Actions Deprecation Warning
If you have a GitHub Actions workflow that sets an output using echo ::set-output key=value, you have started to see an unhelpful deprecation warning. Here’s how to fix it.
You Can Build Portable Binaries of Python Applications
Contrary to popular belief, it’s possible to ship portable executables of Python applications without sending your users to Python packaging hell.
Read moreEasier Crediting of Contributors on GitHub
GitHub has the concept of co-authors of a commit. You’ve probably seen it in the web UI, when multiple people are listed to have committed something. I want to be gracious with credit where it’s due and I’ve found ways to make it easier.
Read morepip-tools Supports pyproject.toml
pip-tools is ready for modern packaging.
Read moreParametrized pytest Fixtures
If you reuse a @pytest.mark.parametrize many times, it might be time to define a parametrized fixture instead.
Eve Extend
Don’t buy it.
Read moretyping.Protocol Across Python Versions
How to seamlessly support typing.Protocol on Python versions older and newer than 3.8. At the same time.
You Can Stop Updating Copyright Attribution Years
Every January 1st, an army of open source developers rushes out to update their copyright attributions in licenses and documentation. Why? Because we’ve always done it that way.
Read moreTemplate Links in Sphinx
One of my pet peeves are projects without easily accessible changelogs (secondary pet peeve: changelogs without dates). Currently, I’m moving most auxiliary docs to Markdown, because that’s clearly what GitHub and related tooling wants me to. But I don’t want to compromise on my own pet peeve.
Read moreSONOS Shares Its Mesh
The fact that SONOS devices build a transparent Wi-Fi mesh once one of them has wired Internet, is one of the main features of the ecosystem. TIL that at least the Playbar happily shares that mesh with your other devices.
Read morewhich is not POSIX
I learn a non-trivial number of things, because there’s Debian drama about them. The fact that the which command is not part of any standard just joined the flock.
TLS Troubleshooting 101
In my day job I spend a lot of time dealing with sketchy TLS setups. The error messages provided by OpenSSL tend to be quite opaque – fortunately there’s tools to help you.
Read morePython Project-Local Virtualenv Management
On UNIX-like operating systems you can have the Python equivalent of node_modules today, for every Python version, without changing your workflows.
Update All Go Modules
Wanting to update all dependencies in a way that it doesn’t break is somewhat more complicated than expected.
Read morerq & macOS
Due to fork() semantics, using rq on macOS can lead to confusing crashes.