“Smart” devices are pretty nice, except now that products have matured, business departments keep making them worse. Products I’ve tried: Recommend nothin’ Testing Z-Wave Rating: So far, so good. Zigbee Rating: So far, so good. It sucks that some devices only come as Zigbee, and some as Z-Wave, so you need to buy into both…
Read More IOT InternetOfShitsI’m using Starlette for a pet project because it’s a modern Python framework that has GraphQL support. I had trouble integrating it with a Single Page App, but I found an easy fix. My client-side app gets built in the build/ directory, so just adding StaticFiles gets you off the ground: The History API makes…
Read More Serving SPAs from StarletteI frequently harp about how important it is that maintainers of your code need to get context quickly to be productive and happy. I just thought of an analogy. Remember in the Jason Bourne movies, Jason gets in a car, glances at a map and becomes an expert in navigating old-world city streets? That’s the…
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Getting started Getting fast feedback in your IDE is vital to having a happy developer experience. Flow adds that value for me for JavaScript programming. Atom Install ide-flowtype. I just switched from the lighter-weight linter-flow and I’m liking it. The good parts You can use Flow with no transpilation You can use Flow with no…
Read More Flow Type for coding in JavaScript with guardrailsThis article was making the rounds this week: did.txt file. Lately, I’ve been having trouble remember what I did, so the timing of that post was perfect. In the past, I’ve been able to do this in git like git reflog –since yesterday –decorate –author $(git whoami), but these days I’m in many Git repos…
Read More My did to help me remember what I didI use n to manage my system/default NodeJS, but if I’m in a legacy repo (hint: pretty much every repo where I work) I’ll need to drop into an old version of NodeJS just for that terminal. Here’s how I install and use nvm. Based on the original instructions at: github.com/creationix/nvm curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.11/install.sh cd…
Read More Installing nvm for n usersThere is a war going on. A war between those that say Python requirements should be explicit and those that say requirements should be implicit. Before I continue, I’m going to be talking about requirements.txt, not setup.py. The difference between explicit and implicit requirements comes down to whether the line says Django==1.9.7 or Django, respectively.…
Read More requirements.txt==2.0For years, my tool for simple load tests of HTTP sites has been ApacheBench. For years, my reference for how to visualize ApacheBench results has been Gnuplot For years, my reference for how to use Gnuplot has been http://www.bradlanders.com/2013/04/15/apache-bench-and-gnuplot-youre-probably-doing-it-wrong/ But do you really want to be writing Gnuplot syntax? It turns out that Pandas will…
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