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Django podcast about speeding up your Django tests, featuring Adam Johnson, who literally wrote the book on the subject.

Having useful tests, and having them run quickly and often, is a cornerstone to reliable web development—something I am appreciating in Django all the more now I am working on not-Django for my day job.

Speed Up Your Django Tests - Adam Johnson — Django Chat — Overcast

Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years ago.

While we were all busy reimplementing jQuery and replacing it with more elaborate JavaScript frameworks, plain JavaScript has quietly gained features that mean you can do a lot on a small site without requiring complex frameworks at all.

(Via @timbray on Twitter)

A little bit of plain Javascript can do a lot I’ve never worked as a professional frontend developer, so even though I’ve been writing HTML/CSS/JS for 15 years for little side projects, all of the projects have been pretty small, sometimes I don’t write any Javascript for years in between, and I often don’t quite feel like I know what I’m doing. Partly because of that, I’ve leaned on libraries a lot! Ten years ago I used to use jQuery, and since maybe 2017 I’ve been using a lot of vue.

Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 1 month ago.

Instructions for renaming the ‘master‘ branch in your Git repository to ‘main‘. There is no particular reason for the main branch of your repo to be called ‘master‘, so you might as well rename it rather spend eternity explaining to people that this isn’t a reference to ‘master–slave’ relationships; ‘main’ is as good a replacement as any.

Easily rename your Git default branch from master to main - Scott Hanselman

Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 1 month ago.

A runtime for TypeScript or JavaScript programs that is positioned as a single-executable alternative to TypeScript + Babel + Node + NPM + ESLint + Prettier + Webpack. Modules are imported from URLs (same system as ES6 modules running in browsers), and asynchronous APIs use promises rather than those old-fashioned callbacks (so not a drop-in replacement for Node). Implemented in Rust, and aiming to be secure-by-default by restricting access to files and networks unless explicitly allowed.

Deno â A secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript. Deno is a simple, modern and secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that uses V8 and is built in Rust.

Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 2 months ago.

Apple’s photos app does machine-learning-powered analysis of all your photos and stores the result sin SQLite files that can reveal a wealth of information if you know how.

Using SQL to find my best photo of a pelican according to Apple Photos According to the Apple Photos internal SQLite database, this is the most aesthetically pleasing photograph I have ever taken of a pelican: Here’s the SQL query that found me my …

Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 2 months ago.

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

Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 2 months ago.

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’.

Without Writing a Single Line of Code 8 August 2009

Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 2 months ago.

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.