The question was "Favorite Design Patterns."
This is tricky because -- well -- so many patterns appear and re-appear in software. Picking a few from the vast world of patterns is fraught with difficulties.
Here are some thoughts:
Few things are as distracting as those god-awful side quests.
In this case, I had to search out all of the examples in my new book drafts.
Once upon a time, it was a manual check of code in the book to be sure it made sense.
Ugh. Not …
Reaching back to 2008. Yes. Decade(s) ago. Python 2.5.
I was reminded of this when a former colleague pinged me about this: https://github.com/slott56/TigerShark.
Yes, it's an X12/EDI message parsing library from -- well -- decades ago.
Short answer: Parsing X12 …
See Programming Languages I've Learned (more-or-less in order) [Update].
This came up on Twitter and Fosstodon.
See https://fosstodon.org/@vpavlyshyn/109908255464181943 and https://fosstodon.org/@slott56/109908527412493172.
I omitted a few things from the list because -- well -- there are a LOT of languages.
For example, in the 90's I …
more ...The (almost) 10-year old 27" Thunderbolt display finally died.
Well, it didn't really die.
The Thunderbolt connector had gotten impossibly flaky. If I looked at it wrong, the monitor glitched or disonnected.
It was dead enough that I wasn't going to deal with it.
It involved this morass of adapters …
more ...I'm undecided if this goes into the next book. Maybe this is a teaser... And yes, this is a Python to the Rescue story.
I live on a boat. See Red Ranger Blog for details. What's essential is this little complication.
The South Gulf Cove Boat Lock.
The lock keeps …
more ...For social contact, I'm generally following people on https://fosstodon.org/home. I'm https://fosstodon.org/@slott56.
Or @slott56@fosstodon.org <https://fosstodon.org/@slott56> as they say in the Fediverse.
But I saw some stuff on Twitter that was disheartening.
more ...I thought Python🐍wasn't strongly typed.🤔 But this code …
See https://www.packtpub.com/product/functional-python-programming-third-edition/9781803232577
Much newness here.
https://books.apple.com/us/book/pivot-to-python/id1586977675
I've recently updated this to fix some cosmetic problems with title pages, the table of contents and …
Behave fixtures totally rock for testing complex applications.
I had been doing them wrong. Doing them right is simpler.
I'm a fan of the Gherkin language for specifying the behavior of software.
Scenario: Works for Me Given a configuration When a request is made Then the response can …
As noted in Finished Moving: Lessons Learned link rot is real.
Links vanish.
I've got 23 ancient (2004 to 2006, ancient) posts with clearly broken links. These are easy to identify because the service vanished years ago.
The tricky part is figuring out of there's any content worth preserving. In …
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