Dinner

I posted a Python tidbit about checking if a string consists entirely of zeros and ones:I got a bunch of replies suggesting other ways. I wanted to post those, but I also wanted to check if they were right. A classic testing structure would have required putting them all in functions, etc, which I didn’t want to bother with.So I cobbled together...

I am a liberal. I believe in helping people. But these days I see cruelty masquerading as righteousness and selfishness labelled as freedom. I see politicians lifting up the powerful and stepping on the already downtrodden.Hubert Humphrey laid out a rubric I think we are doing poorly at:The ultimate moral test of any government is the way it...

I posted a Python tidbit about how for loops can assign to other things than simple variables, and many people were surprised or even concerned:params = { "query": QUERY, "page_size": 100, } # Get page=0, page=1, page=2, ... for params["page"] in itertools.count(): data = requests.get(SEARCH_URL, params).json()...

I was on episode 4 of the On The Board podcast: Taking on New Challenges. I’m never quite sure what parts of my experience people will be able to relate to, but it was a good chat with Jason and Michael about becoming a newb late in my career.

Something many people don’t realize is that I didn’t write the original coverage.py. It was written by Gareth Rees in 2001. I’ve been extending and maintaining it since 2004. This ancient history came up this week, so I grabbed the 2001 version from archive.org to keep it here for posterity.I already had a copy of Gareth’s original page about...