Elsie allows you to create slides programmatically using Python. It is a Python library that lets you build SVG slides in a composable way and then render them to PDF. There is no DSL or GUI – presentations created with Elsie are fully programmed with Pyt... (more…)

Two malicious packages were removed from the Python Package Index (PyPI) this week. These packages, jeIlyfish (a misspelling of the package jellyfish only... (more…)

“There’s an old saying in Tennessee—I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, ‘Fool me once, shame on…shame on you. Fool me—you can’t get fooled again.’” –George W. Bush... (more…)

Python’s pickle module is a very convenient way to serialize and de-serialize objects. It needs no schema, and can handle arbitrary Python objects. But it has problems. This post briefly explains the problems. (more…)

TLDR: I overview few error handling techniques (with the emphasis on Python, although I mention few other programming languages), some existing Python libraries and suggesting a simple and clean mypy-based approach. (more…)