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 …

Adding type hints is easy and fun. Seriously. It's not a lot of work.

Until.

Until you find a piece of code that does more than what you sort-of

thought it kind-of did.

def null_aware_func(x):
    if x is None:
         return x
    return 2.2*x**1.05

This is …

Higher-Order Functions. A really cool idea. Javascript isn't my favorite language. https://medium.freecodecamp.org/higher-order-functions-in-javascript-d9101f9cf528 This, on the other hand, is huge: trunk-based development. https://codeburst.io/trunk-based-development-vs-git-flow-a0212a6cae64 I'm really tired of having a dev branch with periodic commits to master so we can deploy from master. It's so …

In a way, this is about an epic fail attempting copy-and-paste coding. But really, this is about thinking outside the box. The issue -- to me -- comes from failing to see the box. Here's the body of the email, edited slightly.

"...how determine when a file has completed downloading. It would …

https://www.ynonperek.com/2017/09/21/python-exercises/amp/ This seems very cool. These look like some pretty cool problems. It includes debugging and unit testing, so there's a lot of core skills covered by these exercises.

I know folks who struggle with the core concepts of writing software. Some of them are IT professionals. With jobs. They can't really code. It seems like they don't understand it. Maybe a gentler introduction to programming will help? I have my doubts. The folks who seem to struggle the …

I work with data scientists. I am not a scientist.

This kind of thing on scikit learn is helpful for understanding what they're trying to do and how I can help.

The three unsolvable problems in computing:

• Naming
• Distributed Cache Coherence
• Off-By-One Errors

Let's talk about naming.

The project team decided to call the server component "FlaskAPI".

Seriously.

It serves information about two kinds of resources: images and running instances of images. (Yes, it's a kind of kubernetes/dockyard lite that …