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How to write a quality command line tool in under 60 seconds. I used to find writing command line tools tedious. Not so much the writing of the core of the tool itself, but all the peripheral stuff you had to do to actually finish one. The Language? ¶ The first issue is to pick the language to implement it in: do I use Python, which I'm intimitely familiar with, or a Unix shell script? With shell

Update from March 14, 2019: The Python packaging landscape has changed significantly since I first wrote this post. Your choice today is mostly between using pip-tools directly, using Pipenv (which is a Swiss army knife kind of tool that internally relies on pip-tools), or newer tooling like Poetry. A good post to help you decide which is the tool to best fit your use case is Python Application De

A tiny pet library for dealing with datetimes and timezones in Python. Lately I’ve been getting sick of working with datetimes and timezones in Python. The standard library offers many different conversion routines, but does not prescribe a best practice way to deal with them. Luckily, Armin Ronacher did in his article Dealing with Timezones in Python. The summary is to never ever work with local

A few weeks ago, I felt inspired by articles from Jeff Kreeftmeijer and Armin Ronacher. I took some time to configure and fine-tune my Vim environment. A lot of new stuff made it into my .vimrc file and my .vim directory. This blog post is a summary describing what I’ve added and how I use it in my daily work. Before doing anything else, make sure you have the following line in your .vimrc file: "