Stand-alone document files for tech writing are awful. They should not be used as widely as they are.

This is a disheartening thing to read

As someone who doesn't do a ton of JSON parsing on the command line, I tend to forget jq syntax.

Two tools I really like are gron (make JSON greppable) from @tomnomnom and jqp ..., which provides a "tui playground for exploring jq."

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See Python 3.12: what didn't make the headlines. This is very helpful.

It is a great list of 7 key features of Python 3.12.

With one tiny point I need to object to.

A "Dice Mechanic"? Yes. The thing you do with the dice to determine an outcome. We'll use Python to see how the dice shake out.

Want a book with dozens of project ideas?

Each has a description, and approach, and deliverables. It's a lot like ordinary development work, but with some detailed guidance from the author. (And no deadline imposed by your team lead or manager.)

These are projects you can do. You can post …

This is a great question.

https://fosstodon.org/@JustineSmithies/110979871574705636

This works, they said.

echo -en "Firefox\0icon\x1fweechat" | fuzzel -d -w 100 -l 10

But. The superficial switch to subprocess.Popen() doesn't work.

Why?

The way echo works varies from shell to shell. When MacOSX changes to zsh, things …

Stuff I found on the internet that I have to disagree with.

(And no, I didn't ask for clarification. If the author posts things without supporting details it suggests they might lack the supporting details. I can be charitable and assume they don't really care about providing useful information, but …

See https://writing.peercy.net/p/python-quirks

Superficially, most of these are true.

Looking a little more deeply, most of them are also presented in a somewhat misleading way. A few set up a good punch-line. The Inheritance one, for example, is funny.

If the point is to force a …

I want to call out two huge problems with Python. I'm not the first to point these out, but they've been bothering me for a while.

1. Surprising Changes
2. Dependency Hell

I've provided them here to save folks from repeating these. They're now officially "known" and there's no point in repeating …

See https://github.com/slott56/py-web-tool

And https://pypi.org/project/py-web-lp/

I finally made the PyWeb LP tool installable from PyPI.

I need to fix the name of the GitHub repo (some day) to make it also say py-web-lp. I should also fixup my tag cloud to say pyweblp …