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HTTPretty is a Python package for writing tests for code that interacts with remote web services. You write expectations for requests the test code should make and the responses, and the tests run without accessing real networks at all. Works particularly nicely with JSON-based protocols.

• HTTPretty’s - HTTP Client Mocking for Python — HTTPretty 0.9.6 documentation

The original spec for cookies was GDPR compliant—and anticipated the advertising-driven disasterscape we live in today.

(Via Tony Finch's link log)

• The original cookie specification from 1997 was GDPR compliant. Baekdal Media

Letterform Archive is a museum of typography and type design in San Francisco and now has an online archive.

(Via The Online Archive Is Now Open to All via Brand New: Letterform Archive Online)

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I am beginning to think that configurable web sites are a terrible idea. Here is an old article ranting about the hugely complicated web frameworks created so that sites may be built ‘without writing a single line of code’.

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  Without Writing a Single Line of Code 8 August 2009

Visiting a factory that recycles lithium-ion batteries, which turns out to be both simple and complicated.

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  Can electric vehicle batteries be recycled? | Fully Charged Before the lockdown, Helen Czerski went to Wendeburg in Germany to see if it really is possible to recycle the materials in vehicle batteries. In this fascin...

A quick introduction to the logic programming language Prolog.

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  A Concise Introduction To Prolog

How to read RSS in 2020. The RSS format has been around for decades and is stil alive for those who want ti use it.

(Via Laura Kalbag on Twitter)

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  How to read RSS in 2020 I’ve been working on a starter blog for people to use with Site.js. We want this blog to have easy-to-use, accessible and rights-respecting defaults so it’s simple to just get blogging. One of defaults is RSS feeds. But what if you’ve not come across RSS before? What are the benefits of RSS and how can you get subscribing?

pipx is a tool to help you install and run end-user applications written in Python. Each app is installed in its own virtualenv and the commands added to a directory you put on your path.

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Using GitHub Actions to updatge the README of a repository of short tips & tricks articles.

(Via Simon Willison on Twitter)

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  Using a self-rewriting README powered by GitHub Actions to track TILs I’ve started tracking TILs—Today I Learneds—inspired by this five-year-and-counting collection by Josh Branchaud on GitHub (found via Hacker News). I’m keeping mine in GitHub too, and using GitHub Actions to …