A read/watch list re: growing as a software developer/engineer. If there aren't any sub-bullets, I probably haven't vetted the link beyond the title.
In the past year, I've become a maintainer of Twine, a tool for publishing Python packages to repositories like PyPI (the Python Package Index). Twine uses the .pypirc file for configuring repository locations and credentials. This is a timeline of how resolving a seemingly trivial bug report related to that file yielded my first release of Twine and my first contribution to CPython.
On May 27th, 2020, a Twine user reported an unhelpful error message due to invalid configuration:
Incorrect URL for .pypirc format · Issue #638 · pypa/twine
I discovered that the details about the .pypirc format were removed from the Python docs the previous year. Since the format is not exclusive to Twine, it was decided to that the Python Packaging User Guide was a more appropriate place for resolution:
When I first heard this, I thought: that doesn't sound like a good idea. However, a conversation with some friends made me curious to learn more, and since then I've been going down rabbit holes trying to understand what it means. I now support it at a high level, but I still have a lot to learn. This is meant to be a living document of that process, shared in the hope that other folks will find it useful.
When I first heared of this organization and its campaign for police reform, it seemed like a great idea. Now, I don't support it. This is an attempt to demonstrate why, but in short, lots of people say the reforms won't work, and promoting them as a solution is dangerous. See my reading about defunding the police for more.
All non-italicized words were copied directly from the source, and lightly edited for readability in this context.
The messaging evolved dramatically over a few days.
future/futurize over six/modernize
Talks on how to do them better.
I've scanned through these, and they all seem to cover the basic features of Django (models, function-based views, forms, templates, CSS, and the admin interface), and use Python 3 and Django 2. My notes indicate what I think differentiates them.
I hereby claim:
To claim this, I am signing this object: