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21. What Makes Software Good? – Mike Bostock 2017-02-05

    tags: architecture, community, design, open-source, software

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22. /r/python - What is the most impressive (in a good or bad way) Python code you've seen on Github? 2016-11-03

    tags: beautiful, code, programming/python, source-code-management/git

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23. Literate DevOps 2016-03-29

    tags: babel, development, devops, documentation, editor/emacs, literate, mode, org, sysadmin

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    """ Instead of opening up a terminal to my virtual machine, I pop into Emacs and load this sprint’s /note file/1, create a new header, and enter the shell and ruby commands in this text file.

    What good is this? Unlike a traditional terminal, this allows me to log, document and execute each command.

    As an old bear with very little brains, my prose can explain the background and purpose of each command. Clicking the hyperlink refreshes my memory of previous discoveries. A keychord executes the code block… """

24. Martin Fowler 2015-04-05

    tags: agile, computer, continuous-integration, development

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    "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand."

    see http://martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html ;-)

25. Python unit testing frameworks: Nose, Pytest 2015-02-13

    tags: code, coverage, feature, nose, programming/python, programming/python/pytest, programming/testing, quality, unit

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    Python's built-in unittest module is quite cool, but a bit limited and way too verbose (read: it's quite not easy to incite developers to write unit tests)

    I'm currently looking for more dev-friendly solutions, the key points being:

    • writing test code should be easy and straight-forward -keep the focus on "what to test" instead of "how to transcribe a process to a test"
    • parallelization! -we, spoiled developers, should make good use of our way-too-many-cores build machines...
    • complete feature set!
      • we don't want to just run tests...
      • coverage reports (find dead/weak/untested code sections)
      • output formatting (JUnit-XML seems to be quite a common format out there)

    There seem to be 3 solutions in Python:

    • stock unittest + project-dependent customizations / test helpers
    • nosetests
    • py.test

    And 2 ways of gettings things done:

    • keeping things stock: no external dependency, project-specific implementation...
    • using a test framework: one more module in your (test) virtualenv, more concise tests, more features (// run, code coverage, etc.)

    Some links:

    • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22856638/nose-vs-pytest-what-are-the-subjective-differences-that-should-make-me-pick
    • http://helixyte.org/2014/04/unit-testing-adventures-moving-from-nose-to-pytest/
    • http://lists.idyll.org/pipermail/testing-in-python/2013-August/005624.html
26. Is Unit Testing worth the effort? - Stack Overflow 2014-11-24

    tags: continuous-integration, development, driven, programming/testing, unit

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    Awesome thread! The topvoted comments show extremely good - yet simple - reasons to become a unit test maniac ;-)

    See also:

    • http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?ContinuousIntegration
    • http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?UnitTest
27. Python bad practice, a concrete case 2014-11-14

    tags: bad, coverage, development, good, hack, pep8, practice, programming/python, programming/testing, unit

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28. Learn X in Y Minutes: Scenic Programming Language Tours 2014-10-23

    tags: development, programming-language, syntax

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    TL;DR: you won't.

    This website is rather a good memo regarding each language's foundations:

    • what's its general purpose?
    • how to write core instructions, such as functions, loops, conditional structures?

    I find this kind of reminder quite useful when it comes to documentation languages (e.g. TeX, Markdown)

29. Shaarli - AlbinoMouse 2014-10-08

    tags: fork, link, programming/css, shaarli, share, theme, web

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    Good-looking Shaarli fork ;-)

30. Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 2TB - Spin up issue 2014-08-24

    tags: disk, drive, hard, hardware, issue

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    http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/288005-32-seagate-barracuda-st2000dm001-good-drives http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/293847-32-possible-failure-seagate-barracuda-sata-st2000dm001

    http://gsmartcontrol.sourceforge.net/home/ http://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Download http://www.seagate.com/support/internal-hard-drives/desktop-hard-drives/barracuda/