No Plans to Merge is a newer podcast to me. The hosts, Daniel Coulbourne & Caleb Porzio, have a chemistry that is much deeper than their episode count would suggest, as this podcast is the successor to another show that ended a few months ago.
The latest episode, "Your …
Throughout my career, the teams I’ve been on have had a wide range of views on using tests while developing code. As I’ve moved between teams, listened to podcasts, and read articles, I’ve assembled some notes that would have been very useful for me in the past. Some of these …
Part of what I want to do with this site is recommend tools and resources that I’ve found valuable, in the hopes that you might benefit from them and enjoy them as I have.
There has been one program, in particular, that I use most times I’m in a coding …
Though pathlib was introduced in python 3.4 to some praise, I didn’t “get” it. Like many things in python, I needed some time to come around and tinker with it before I realized the power within. I can’t remember when pathlib started “clicking” for me, but I’m sure it was …
At the most recent PyRVA meeting, I had the opportunity to coach an aspiring web developer to start his first local web server and view a website that he created. It was truly a privilege to see his excitement.
In the realm of web development, this is a very basic …
A little while ago, I asked the Internet its thoughts about how best to work with CSS when following the BEM methodology. And in the following months, I’ve come across some ideas worth sharing.
When I was working on the website that inspired the question, I realized …
I am glad that mental health is being discussed more often in the programming world. In particular, I would like to thank Kenneth Reitz for his transparency over the last few years and contributing his recent essay on developer burnout.
Having just recently experienced a period of burnout, I …
I have written few articles about how Sublime Text has been such a great environment to get my work done—and there’s more to come, I have been extremely happy with Sublime for years.
But listening to Michael Kennedy and some guests on his Talk Python to Me podcast gush about …
At work, we follow the BEM methodology in naming our HTML elements and CSS styles. But we’ve been struggling with the best way to inherit styles from similar blocks. As with many things in programming, there’s great documentation to get you started, but the next level is up to you. …
I’ve only recently started listening to the Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots podcast, but I’m finding it a good source of ideas I want to be exposed to, particularly with product development, analytics, and marketing.
In episode 214, I enjoyed listening to Nick Gauthier share some great tips …