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Snarkiness aside, this is hardly a static type check. This appears to be a runtime argument check, somewhat akin to the following python: def foo(*, a, b): return a+b which errors …

As a long time Django user that wants to start using typing, can you elaborate on why mypy is still the way to go?

Decoupled Django usually means that you are providing a client SPA with a API, such as a DRF powered REST API. If you are using something like token auth (you mentioned JWT), then …

It's a bit apples to oranges to compare mean to median? Or at least Honeycrisp to Gala...

This is one of my favorite software development books of all time. It's the book that finally offered straight forward guidance and wisdom on how to properly utilize OOP language f…

Other languages do sometimes implement this at the library level. Clojure's core.async comes to mind (though there are subtle differences). There's downsides to this approach thoug…

QQQ has done great the last decade, but that's no guarantee it will outperform the next decade. Make sure you understand what you are getting yourself into by overweighting in the …

I don't quite see what the outbox pattern has to do with the two generals problem. The point of the outbox pattern is that a durable record of the need to send an event is stored i…

The killer feature for me that Slack has over Discord is the ability to hide images, so I'm not stuck being distracted by some random person's obnoxious animated meme.

Not judging here, but that’s some serious consequence tax fraud if caught.

There are extensions to hide the Shorts. I’ve been using one for a month now and it’s been great.

There's some arguments behind why you might want to not lay blame plainly (and especially publicly) on an individual, within a business team setting. - Laying direct blame on someo…

Wagtail first shipped 9 years ago in 2014. It's already old/boring, and great!

One of my favorite free online books is https://internetingishard.netlify.app/ It does a great job at explaining intermediate/advanced caveats and gotchas along the way.

Doesn't encrypting your data before insertion make your data unable to be indexed/searched easily?

2020 m1 Air w/ 16GB user here. For web development, it's more than powerful enough for anything I need (Python/Django/PostgreSQL work). I'd probably be annoyed if doing anything CP…

Drug use was decriminalized in Portland OR by ballot measure, and it is not going well. Open air drug use, coupled with an increase in violence and crime have made being in large p…

Outside of my personal network and own business, LinkedIn + recruiters have found me all of the work I've done in the past decade.

>Also, what was the reason not to go with Gevent? The biggest downside of Gevent IMO is that it enables the magic of turning sync code into async code via monkey patching things li…

I’m not sure if it is still an option today, but I have chosen paid SaaS Sentry over self hosted Sentry in the past.

> I've started in the last year or so to turn to the church (Roman Catholic) and theism, both to find answers to some of life's mysteries, such as the origin of the Universe... Acc…

In my experience, Ansible is fantastic for provisioning a machine from bare Linux VM to running service. OTOH it's quite slow when used for deployments. There's no way you would be…

I've been fully remote on and off since 2010. I've never been able to really connect with coworkers without in-person time spent, and usually lots of it. This has led me to taking …

Out of curiosity, which cultures have this strong sense of informal community? It sounds kind of great.

I don't think it was that long ago that communities of humans were quite small, and the number of peers your age around you would easily fall into the 20-750 range.