Yesterday, I found two bugs whilst looking at a code coverage report.

I tend to think that shooting for 100% code coverage adds unnecessary overheard - often the last few percent doesn't give you much benefit, and takes a disproportionate amount of time to reach, but it's useful to ...

One of the programming lessons I find myself re-learning again and again is this:

It's turtles all the way down¹.

When I first started my current job, just after graduation, I was working in a frontend development rôle. The app I was working on involved storing customer data ...

I've just got a new laptop, and wanted to avoid messing around with symbolic links in order to install PIL¹ in a virtual environment. I've just discovered patch², and thought I should automate my process of installing PIL (a process which previously involved me making a ...

A new version of Django was released a couple of days ago. I'm currently at 11 sites using Django, so upgrading them all manually (which I did last time) is a pain.

To help me out, I wrote a tiny Fabric script to spin through my sites, check if ...

I do a lot of development without an internet connection¹, so being able to install packages into a virtual environment without a connection to PyPI is pretty useful.

I've got a couple of aliases in my .bashrc which help with this²:

alias pipcache='pip install --download ${HOME ...