Recent publications elsewhere: Spec to Gherkin to Code

I was "volunteered" by a colleague to help the program committee for PyCon 2018. I rarely think of myself as qualified for this kind of thing. Yes. I have six books on Python (with a seventh on the way) but the PSF folks are brilliant and dedicated and hard-working, and …

1. I can't teach myself data science on my crappy old Windows machine.
2. I've decided to get a new Windows machine. Here are the specs.

TL;DR -- To remove doubts and questions, rewrite it.

Many, many people are confronted with the request to maintain someone else's code.

Either it's open source, and you have to make formal PR's visible to the world.

Or it's "enterprise" in-house software, and you have to make PR's visible to …

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#python news: 😀

@gvanrossum just pronounced that dicts are now guaranteed to retain insertion order. This is the end of a long journey.

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https://www.meetup.com/DC-Web-API-User-Group https://www.meetup.com/DC-Web-API-User-Group/events/245014240/ Nice bunch of people. Nice facility. Good discussions.

See https://www.slideshare.net/ITRevolution/does-sfo-2016-topo-pal-devops-at-capital-one for the 16 gates that separate a good idea from secure, productive use of software. While a lot of DevOps folks like the idea, when it comes to implementing it for Python apps, they get confused.

The confusion seems to stem from Python's …