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Thank you so much for this! I didn't realize Swagger/OpenAPI had a way to auto-generate its specification. Your comment led me down the rabbit hole and helped me to find a few opti…

Hey folks, I've recently been tasked with doing some code cleanup for a hefty .Net codebase. It quickly became apparent that this wasn't going to be possible without some sanity ch…

I agree. Part of the motivation for this post is that I've been doing triage on a maimed branch that got incorrectly squashed. That being said, the workflow for this project is unl…

There's some pretty clever tricks on that site that I wasn't familiar with. Much appreciated!

That is a very cool website that I'd never seen before today. Thank you!

One of the projects I work on has a Git Rebase workflow. Developers looking to get their changes into the main branch: 1. Do a rebase to get their branch in-sync with main, 2. Squa…

Hey folks, I started work as a consultant roughly half a year ago, and in doing so, have found myself pulled into more and more web development projects. Although it isn't really m…

Something dead simple. I want code that's easy to write and easy to read. No fancy tricks. No decorators, no hundred-character lines for a print statement, no manual memory managem…

"Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around h…

Imagine a business that sells deliverable medical testing kits. This business is the best at what they do; they sell more kits than any other organization, they cost less, they're …

Current (almost finished) OMSA student here. I agree that the tools themselves aren't terrible, but I do believe they're an example of "doing the wrong thing faster". My claim woul…

Would you be willing to provide a few references for this? My professional work has skirted around the discussion at times, and I would be fantastically interested in learning more…

Hey all, Some time ago I published a Kaggle dataset as part of a passion project. It was generated by a fairly involved handwritten Python pipeline that I hacked together while lea…

I'd like to offer another use case, one near and dear to my heart: grandma. My grandmother, like many grandmothers, has no business being on the road. She is a wonderful person. Sh…

My younger brother is in the same age range. He was interested in programming, so I pointed him towards Automate the Boring Stuff with Python . He has done well since, with his lat…

I believe that there is a strong argument to be made for the middle ground. Like you, I have been both a teacher and student, often at the same time, and was exposed to the trade-o…

Offering my two cents as an idiot kid working with a posse of late career SQL DBA's: SQL isn't obsolete, but it's awfully tiring to deal with folks who treat it as the end-all be-a…

Like many C.S. graduates, my education was theory heavy and practice light. I have spent much of the past few years rapidly building out missing areas of expertise to fulfill an in…

I've accidentally assumed the role of local Python guru at my current company. Coworkers ask me about best practices, popular libraries, and deployment tooling. I find it very flat…

You seem to have had a very successful PhD experience. You write approvingly of your advisor, acknowledge the ways in which the program benefited you, and have respect for peer-rev…