williamjackson

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Currently doing infrastructure automation, mostly in AWS. A fan of Python and Docker.

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Comment · 4 months ago
I do this too! But I call it `.local`
Comment · 5 months ago
Coming to uv from pip, I fall back to

    uv pip list --outdated
when I need that information.
Comment · 6 months ago
I was really hoping for a gif or two!
Comment · 9 months ago

    At sufficient scale, Dependabot’s analysis will time out before completing, effectively rate-limiting the number of PRs it can generate. This natural throttling prevents notification fatigue while maintaining the appearance of active security tooling.
Am I being trolled?
Comment · 9 months ago
Thank you for expressing my thoughts as well. The article seems to be full of contradictory “advice”.

Use a dependency cooldown, okay … but don’t commit your lockfile so you are always running the latest transitive deps? That’s nuts.

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I don’t like writing YAML. I like writing Python. So I write Python that generates YAML config files. JSON is in the standard library but YAML isn’t. So I generate JSON and name the file “file.yaml”.

GitHub Actions, Dependabot, and Docker Compose never complain.

Comment · 1 year ago
And it only took 20 years!
Comment · 1 year ago
Access to contacts for iOS apps is no longer all or nothing. You can grant an app access to only specific contacts. This is what I do for WhatsApp.

Also, I know in the past I used WhatsApp without contacts access. It just showed phone numbers instead of names, but it was functional.

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Comment · 2 years ago
I use Flask a lot too. I generally just add keyword arguments to url_for() to automatically add querystrings to URLs.
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Comment · 2 years ago
In my mind, "move in a straight line due east" can be interpreted as "for as long as you are moving, your movement should be due east". In that case, your latitude will never change. In the northern hemisphere, you will constantly be making a leftward adjustment to maintain a due east heading.

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