A discussion on how features of programming languages can make it hard to avoid expressing or talking about things you may or may not care about as a programmer.

Some perspectives on approaching a rewrite of a software project.

How can it be a real website if it’s less than 7k?

Why? Because it’s fun.

Devotions that I gave on “CCiW Purple camp” this summer

TLDR: because I want them to become seniors one day, and I want them to enjoy being developers

A Pythonic way to ensure that your statically-defined dicts are complete, with full source code.

Some history on term “technical debt” and on better language to use when communicating about it.

I got ChatGPT to rewrite “Christ the True and Better Adam” with Lord of the Rings characters, I think it did pretty good.

The workflow of recursively searching for things or dealing with a list of issues to fix without getting lost.

The reasons why I don’t give permission for material I’ve written to be used as training data for an LLM chatbot designed to do Christian apologetics

There are times when we need to stop trying to make everything sync automatically, and just test that it is synced. Tips for Python and web dev.

Just like the only numbers programmers care about are zero, one, infinity, the only frequencies we care about are Never, Sometimes and Always.

Methodology and sample code for using pyastgrep to do custom linting tasks on Python source code.

Proverbs are supposed to encapsulate a bit of wisdom, but you still need know when to apply it.

Some code and tips to combine Python and Django introspection APIs to enforce naming conventions in your Django models.

I “pip install”ed my app on Windows and everything just worked. Something is going right.