We've been experimenting with breaking up employees into random groups (of size 4) and setting up video hangouts between them. We're doing this to replace the serendipitous meetings that sometimes occur around coffee machines, in lunch lines or while wait... (more…)

PyPI module 'ctx' that gets downloaded over 20,000 times a week has been compromised in a software supply chain attack with malicious versions stealing the developer's environment variables. Additionally, versions of a 'phpass' fork published to the PHP/C... (more…)

pyfakefs implements a fake file system that mocks the Python file system modules.

A few weeks ago, I got really angry at the state of things with black. Everybody uses this autoformatter that breaks pep8, and nothing annoys me more like breaking pep8. (more…)

Erik Max Francis wrote: > "Brandon J. Van Every" wrote: >> What's better about Ruby than Python?  I'm sure there's something. >> What is it? > Wouldn't it make much more sense to ask Ruby people this, rather than > Python people?... (more…)