We think we do, but in fact every web developer will happily sacrifice simplicity to the first shiny thing promising them relief from the mildest of ailments.

It’s bad for accessibility, and no longer needed.

A trick I learned for using someone else’s CSS without changing your HTML, or their CSS

How to use Sass/SCSS in a Django project, without needing Node.js/npm or running a build process

Three responses to the question, “What if none of the things I believe about Jesus and God are actually real? What if Jesus didn’t rise from the dead?”

5 different things you might be using type annotations for, or might want to.

A response to Hillel Wayne’s “I am disappointed by dynamic typing”

Jesus’ command, “feed my sheep”, is the controlling priority.

A way to think about the soul, and how it relates to the body, in the 21st century

Patterns for creating model instances in Django project test suites, and some anti-patterns

How I tried and failed to add static type checking to Parsy, and settled for type hints as documentation instead.

A collection of tools that can be run to automatically rewrite Python code in a number of ways

Release announcement for pyastgrep, a tool for grepping Python code at the syntax level.

Why the argument from unwanted children doesn’t convince those who are pro-life

How returning error objects can provide some advantages over raising exceptions in Python, such as for static type checking tools.

The flows I use for exploratory programming using a REPL and their advantages.