So I was reviewing a coworkers pull request today and saw something I hadn't seen in Python before. As it turns out you can have multiple if clauses on a list comprehension. For example:

>>> [v for v in range(50) if v % 2 == 0 if v > 10]  # all even numbers …

So I was going to write a blog post outlining most of the stuff I did in getting this site up off the ground, but then a colleague went ahead and did the same and wrote up their journey. :)

So, in true CodependentCodr fashion, Imma going to stea...err borrow …

Today's link of the day is from Stride's blog: https://www.stridenyc.com/blog/11-ways-to-fight-burnout

I found much of the stuff in the article resonated with me, and many of the tips in in are things I do & have found helped, so passing along.

TIL today: in CloudFront, creating an invalidation for /*.html is not the same as creating an invalidation for / even though / redirects to /index.html.

Context: yesterday I set up a CloudFront distribution for this site, so that I could attach an SSL cert to it (more about this in a …

Oftentimes you want to take a screenshot. On OSX this is easy: ⌘+SHIFT+4 and you're presented with a rectangle that allows you to click & select what to capture. But what happens when you want things like capturing a tooltip, or the mouse pointer itself.

As it turns out there's …

Sometimes you’ll want to have Jenkins trigger a build on a recurring schedule. Common examples include things like a scheduled build at midnight (or some other time when regular work isn’t happening). Traditionally in Jenkins this could be done on the configuration page for the job in question …

Oftentimes you just want to try out something related to logging in the REPL, or in a hacky script.  Wading through the docs on the logging module is this painful exercise in reading about handlers and formatters and other stuff you don't care about.

The simplest way to just get …

I'm currently doing the 30-Day Code Quality Challenge (https://www.codequalitychallenge.com), and today's exercise was an interesting one -- extract a compound conditional.

The idea of extracting a compound conditional is it's a refactor to try and improve the readability of code by giving a name to a complex boolean …

Much has been said about how Microsoft has changed in recent years, no longer the super closed-source monopolistic giant it once was.  Regardless of whether or not you believe the change is real or just at the surface, permanent or temporary, etc, there is definitely some interesting things that have …

Awhile back at a job a question was raised in a sprint planning meeting about why we don't do exact story point estimation, instead of doing the fibonacci (or fibonacci-like) scales. We had scales of 0.25, 0.5, 1, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc at the place, and people …