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Disk, flash, or RAM are concerns any time you have many copies of the files. One large file or millions of small ones, it adds up either way! I picked tab-based indentation because…

With no downsides to using tabs over spaces, and wanting to preserve readable SCM diffs, saving 20% of the space for such diffs just happens to be a nice side benefit, not the prim…

Oh, forgot to mention: you can embed in source files editor instructions (between -*- for emacs, something I can't remember for vim) that specify a default presentation format.

But not disk, flash, or RAM. And network transfers are not always compressed, say, if synchronizing with a WebDAV back-end with naive client software. (The vast majority of iOS Web…

How often? Daily; I use my phone and iPad while I'm mobile, out having a smoke, or whatever. At home I use my iPad more than my laptop. You don't keep your source code in a minifie…

The design of the blog is not under my control; if it was, it'd be a lot more flexible. (Responsive design FTW.) The lines that are 81 characters long benefit greatly from the incr…

Python is one-statement-per-line, which is already a pretty good limiter of line length. Just don't go crazy with ternary operators (which are hard to read anyway and thus against …

I use an alternate form that doesn't require alignment to an arbitrary column and works with tab indentation without needing to mix: thing = { [→][→]some_key_1: some_var_1, [→][→]s…

I often use splits on my editors, and with 329 columns in my editor (with side-bar open) there is plenty of room. Fairly recently I was working with five simultaneous vertical spli…

Tabs not simply because it "looks better", but because it offers me the choice. Unfortunately, like most arguments on this subject, you have brought no logical counter-arguments to…

Automation is a very nice thing. We, too, use Git hooks to run a wide array of checks and cleanup routines. The base that we use is from my hooks collection: https://github.com/amc…

If your developers are pressing space four times instead of the tab (key), and the editors aren't capable of reasonable wrapping policies, you should probably replace either the ed…

Convienently, the solution I wrote allows you to utilize two or as many templates as you want, add and remove to the directory as you wish. For us, setting off a handful of templat…

Ever wanted to A/B test your templates in Django and didn't know where to start? Here is a 50 line function as a drop-in replacement for render_to_response with full breakdown of h…

Celery natively pickles the arguments to the background callable. Discussion of why we didn't just pass numerical IDs around is covered in the original article's discussion threads…

promiscuous |prəˈmiskyo͞oəs| 2. demonstrating or implying an undiscriminating or unselective approach; indiscriminate or casual: "the city fathers were promiscuous with their honou…