Using ruff for everything in VSCode
Ruff’s VSCode extension is nice, and can handle the jobs previously done by black and isort. To turn on everything, and to run this on every …
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Automatic, persistent autoreload in iPython
I like that iPython can be configured to automatically reload modules. It’s useful to be able to keep REPL context through development, without …
A minimal Django application
I wanted to put together a single-file Django application, which could still do ‘useful’ work; that is, define models, operate on them, …
Logging git commits with a git hook
Similar to my previous post (more than a year ago!) about using Git hooks to enforce conventional commits, I wanted to start logging all of my …
Conventional Commits Git Hook
I was looking for a way to enforce the Conventional Commits pattern for my own commit messages. A lot of the solutions I found were wildly …
How I Do 1-2-1 Meetings
It appears that everyone on the internet completely hates 1-2-1 meetings.
I don’t particularly want to add fuel to that viewpoint; I’m …
Link Roundup #6
Some of these are older links I found languishing, misfiled in my Safari favourites.
The collapse of complex software
Right now, the software …
Link Roundup #5
Back after a vacation with the ChatGPT special edition. I suspect the theme of the next 5 years will be ChatGPT.
Chat GPT is the birth of the real Web …
Link Roundup #4
We are being levelled-down
The government has allocated £9.7 billion of levelling up funding since 2019. But between 2010 and 2020, annual funding …
Hiring Correctly
It’s a time of year when a lot of businesses are hiring, and layoffs mean there are more candidates in the marketplace. That also means the …