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The project pyastgrep https://pyastgrep.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ can use CSS selectors as a query language for Python syntax (default is XPath). e.g.: pyastgrep --css 'Call > func…

Please, please - just link to the actual "CUE" project. Not everyone has heard of your favourite thing. The first reference to `CUE` should be a hyperlink. For other people: I'm pr…

https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/ Over 200 posts, spanning nearly 20 years. Mostly on programming, Python, Web development, some personal and Christian stuff.

I did a fairly detailed breakdown regarding the Python library Parsy: https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/python-type-hints-parsy-c... This is not to make the general claim "Typing …

Just the other day I added a recent example to that page, from https://www.wsj.com/articles/internet-mangles-names-accents-... where it is obvious that databases are storing pre-es…

This is nice. With variable fonts, some of these fonts now are slightly under-represented - for example "Recursive" is really a large family, the website shows just one extreme poi…

The default user model is fine, but I *always* start a project by extending it, for future-proofing. If you need to add to it, this is *so* much better than having to add a one-to-…

I find it very strange to have claims about the database being tamper-evident etc without a clear description of the threat/trust model, and how/for whom it works. For example, wha…

I think the case for server-side HTML rendering has never been stronger, and of all Django projects I work on, the ones I enjoy most are those that never got on the SPA bandwagon. …

I found Martin Fowler's "Technical Debt Quadrant" helpful on this - https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebtQuadrant.html . He argues you can have deliberate and inadvertent de…

Also, xmag, you already have it installed if you use the X Window System. It's 41kb, extremely lightweight (always starts instantly) and also magnifies a screen portion which is he…

Could you do the following in TypeScript? Can you, for any button in your interface, at any point in time, reliably calculate at runtime what your page's data model would look like…

"real money from real people's savings accounts" is not how it works. See this book - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Where-Does-Money-Come-Monetary/dp/1... Banks do indeed make money "fr…

There is no value in it because it is a false promise. If you give someone access to data, you have lost control over it, especially if it is by email - because not everyone uses G…

> There is some innate affinity for computer programming which you must be born with, and cannot be taught. This being a falsehood is a matter of considerable debate, and it's impo…

This is not the case - with Django's ORM you are still susceptible to the N+1 problem. It can be largely mitigated through `select_related` and `prefetch_related`, but the fundamen…

That's really helpful. Can you make an example which doesn't require making the my_handler function 'async'? For cases when you don't want to make an entire async stack, you just w…

It's a bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307089 Or, it's a memory saving feature. To implement "View source from cache" requires keeping around the raw page HTML, w…

Yeah, the video made me want to go outside and run, not take my mobile with me, and certainly not stay in and tap a screen.

The current spec has a serious flaw for CSRF prevention - it doesn't include the protocol in the definition of site, only the domain. This allows a MITM'd http page to CSRF a https…

One issue they don't address is one of culture: curl|bash is much less secure, in general, than using your package manager (since not everyone will serve downloads over HTTPS, and …

How did you replace Fabric? I've hacked things together with some branches of Fabric + devs that just about work on Python 3, but it's not really satisfactory.

You need to be more specific. In the face of what kind of disruptions will it continue? For example: * do you need to keep supplying electricity? * do you need to keep paying the b…

YAGNI only makes sense in the context of other extreme programming[1] practices, such as making code safe to modify through unit tests[2] and easy to modify because you refactored …