When I started writing applications in 2010, things were simple. I would write the code, perform merges, run tests (if any), build, and upload to the App St...
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Building software is a multi-step process—installing or updating dependencies, compiling the source code, testing, installing, and so on. In any moderately ...
make is a commonplace utility in the development world. It automates the process of generating executables, documentations, and other non-source files from ...
Background: Fingers, Head, and Google Whenever I reach a stopping point in my work, I use a bash alias called gwip1 to create a ‘work in progress’ commi...
Where Did All The Rain Go? It’s been a really dry summer here in Victoria BC (and the rest of the province). I couldn’t remember the last time it had rain...
How do you convert JSON values to CSV and back at the command line? I’ve done this task on many occasions and been stung by the edge cases frequently enough...
Observability If you do software-as-a-service development and you have paying customers, you at some point learn about the need for operational monitoring...
Microsoft announced recently a new Visual Studio Code extension to handle Makefiles. This extension provides a set of commands to the editor that will facil...
Automation testing is a crucial element to speed up your delivery process. It aims to flush out any potential regressions. The more you automate, the more c...
Lately, I’ve been doing a lot more things at the command line. I’m not a hard-core terminal guy – I use VSCode more than Vim – but I’m always surprised at t...
matplotlib is an excellent library for creating graphs and visualizations in Python. For example, I used it to generate the performance graphs in my merging...
Building and testing any large codebase is time-consuming, error-prone, and repetitive. Golang supports multi-platform builds, which is excellent, but it n...
Here is a problem. You are tasked with improving the hot loop of a Python program: maybe it is an in-memory sequential index of some sort. The slow part is...
Even though Python is regarded as an interpreted language and the files need not be compiled separately, many developers are unaware that you can still use ...