Brian Allbee
@brianallbee.bsky.social
Komencanto kun #Esperanto (Dankon, #Duolingo). Mastodon newbie (despite having had an account for several years). #Python wonk. #TTRPG afficionado, particularly #FateSRD and #MotW.
A key idea in my book is that while change in software engineering is constant, engaging with it should be purposeful and may even be optional.
#Python #SoftwareEngineering #TechnicalJudgment #EngineeringLeadership
#Python #SoftwareEngineering #TechnicalJudgment #EngineeringLeadership
January 3, 2026 at 3:23 PM
A key idea in my book is that while change in software engineering is constant, engaging with it should be purposeful and may even be optional.
#Python #SoftwareEngineering #TechnicalJudgment #EngineeringLeadership
#Python #SoftwareEngineering #TechnicalJudgment #EngineeringLeadership
It’s Official…
...the second edition of my book, Hands-On Software Engineering with Python (www.packtpub.com/en-us/produc...), is officially published and available from Packt (www.packtpub.com/en-us).
#python #softwareengineering #technicalwriting #programming #learning
...the second edition of my book, Hands-On Software Engineering with Python (www.packtpub.com/en-us/produc...), is officially published and available from Packt (www.packtpub.com/en-us).
#python #softwareengineering #technicalwriting #programming #learning
January 2, 2026 at 2:15 AM
It’s Official…
...the second edition of my book, Hands-On Software Engineering with Python (www.packtpub.com/en-us/produc...), is officially published and available from Packt (www.packtpub.com/en-us).
#python #softwareengineering #technicalwriting #programming #learning
...the second edition of my book, Hands-On Software Engineering with Python (www.packtpub.com/en-us/produc...), is officially published and available from Packt (www.packtpub.com/en-us).
#python #softwareengineering #technicalwriting #programming #learning
In other power-outage news: I now know how long the UPS on my Internet gateway lasts: less than two hours. 😶
Long enough to get online to let my coworkers know, at least, as long as I'm awake when the power cuts out.
Long enough to get online to let my coworkers know, at least, as long as I'm awake when the power cuts out.
December 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
In other power-outage news: I now know how long the UPS on my Internet gateway lasts: less than two hours. 😶
Long enough to get online to let my coworkers know, at least, as long as I'm awake when the power cuts out.
Long enough to get online to let my coworkers know, at least, as long as I'm awake when the power cuts out.
Gotta say that I have mixed feelings about how #XcelEnergy handles planned outages in Colorado. On the one hand, I totally get that they're trying to avoid wildfire propagation on high-wind days after months of dry (drought?) conditions. I even applaud the sentiment.
December 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Gotta say that I have mixed feelings about how #XcelEnergy handles planned outages in Colorado. On the one hand, I totally get that they're trying to avoid wildfire propagation on high-wind days after months of dry (drought?) conditions. I even applaud the sentiment.
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Before the ACA there were no National Health Insurance standards. No minimums. Companies were licensed from state to state, and there was no standard for benefits. People would buy "full coverage" to find it only covered the hospital, no medical. Comparison shopping would be very difficult.
Dr. Oz is clearly a moron who, incredibly, doesn't understand anything about how the insurance system works.
But also: Conservatives genuinely believe that people want to spend endless hours "choosing the insurance that's best for them." They don't. They want good, secure health care. It's simple.
But also: Conservatives genuinely believe that people want to spend endless hours "choosing the insurance that's best for them." They don't. They want good, secure health care. It's simple.
Dr Oz: "If you had a check in the mail, you could buy the insurance you thought was best for you"
November 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Before the ACA there were no National Health Insurance standards. No minimums. Companies were licensed from state to state, and there was no standard for benefits. People would buy "full coverage" to find it only covered the hospital, no medical. Comparison shopping would be very difficult.
Reposted by Brian Allbee
If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
October 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Couldn't think of anything better to do with my #FacebookSettlement than to donate it to #Wikipedia.
🤷🏻🤣
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October 23, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Couldn't think of anything better to do with my #FacebookSettlement than to donate it to #Wikipedia.
🤷🏻🤣
🤷🏻🤣
Mi havas katapulton. Donu al mi vian tutan monon aŭ mi ĵetos grandajn ŝtonojn al via kapo.
#Esperanto
#Esperanto
September 30, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Mi havas katapulton. Donu al mi vian tutan monon aŭ mi ĵetos grandajn ŝtonojn al via kapo.
#Esperanto
#Esperanto
I'm always vaguely amused when severe weather warnings' borders are one to four blocks away from my home.
It's never worked out to be that exact a prediction. But it'd be even more amusing if it were -- cross the street, no rain. Cross back, downpour. 🤣
It's never worked out to be that exact a prediction. But it'd be even more amusing if it were -- cross the street, no rain. Cross back, downpour. 🤣
August 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I'm always vaguely amused when severe weather warnings' borders are one to four blocks away from my home.
It's never worked out to be that exact a prediction. But it'd be even more amusing if it were -- cross the street, no rain. Cross back, downpour. 🤣
It's never worked out to be that exact a prediction. But it'd be even more amusing if it were -- cross the street, no rain. Cross back, downpour. 🤣
@evilhat.bsky.social: So, random question -- are there official PDF copies available for the various MotW books I've picked up? I seem to vaguely remember mention of such a thing, but thought it required a receipt that I didn't keep.
August 7, 2025 at 1:58 AM
@evilhat.bsky.social: So, random question -- are there official PDF copies available for the various MotW books I've picked up? I seem to vaguely remember mention of such a thing, but thought it required a receipt that I didn't keep.
True? False? Good points either way.
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"So Bluesky is about to require people to verify their age, which means sharing their real identity. I’ve no problem with people knowing my identity but then I’m not trying to hide from abusers. Or explore my gender. Or be a whistleblower. ..."
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"So Bluesky is about to require people to verify their age, which means sharing their real identity. I’ve no problem with people knowing my identity but then I’m not trying to hide from abusers. Or explore my gender. Or be a whistleblower. ..."
July 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
True? False? Good points either way.
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"So Bluesky is about to require people to verify their age, which means sharing their real identity. I’ve no problem with people knowing my identity but then I’m not trying to hide from abusers. Or explore my gender. Or be a whistleblower. ..."
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"So Bluesky is about to require people to verify their age, which means sharing their real identity. I’ve no problem with people knowing my identity but then I’m not trying to hide from abusers. Or explore my gender. Or be a whistleblower. ..."
So, apparently there's a dress code?
June 27, 2025 at 11:27 PM
So, apparently there's a dress code?
Continuing my exploration into the idea of having locally-executable APIs/applications that will eventually be deployed as #Python #AWS #LambdaFunctions. At this point, I've got a working local #FastAPI mapping requests to a defined Lambda handler.
goblinfish-code.blogspot.com/2025/06/loca...
goblinfish-code.blogspot.com/2025/06/loca...
Local AWS API Gateway development with Python: The initial FastAPI implementation
Based on some LinkedIn conversations prompted by my post there about the previous post on this topic , I feel like I shoul...
goblinfish-code.blogspot.com
June 16, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Continuing my exploration into the idea of having locally-executable APIs/applications that will eventually be deployed as #Python #AWS #LambdaFunctions. At this point, I've got a working local #FastAPI mapping requests to a defined Lambda handler.
goblinfish-code.blogspot.com/2025/06/loca...
goblinfish-code.blogspot.com/2025/06/loca...
Missing my dad today. Happy Father's Day, all.
June 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Missing my dad today. Happy Father's Day, all.
Asterisk in cheddar. Because why not?
June 15, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Asterisk in cheddar. Because why not?
While trudging through my day-to-day activities, I had an inspiration about how to implement local #API access for #AWS #APIGateway code using #Python #LambdaFunctions for back-end logic, by overriding #FastAPI and #Flask #decorators.
goblinfish-code.blogspot.com/2025/06/loca...
goblinfish-code.blogspot.com/2025/06/loca...
Local AWS API Gateway development with Python: Dissecting decorators
Yes, I'm still poking around at the goblinfish.testing.pact package in the background. It's going slowly, since I've been dea...
goblinfish-code.blogspot.com
June 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
While trudging through my day-to-day activities, I had an inspiration about how to implement local #API access for #AWS #APIGateway code using #Python #LambdaFunctions for back-end logic, by overriding #FastAPI and #Flask #decorators.
goblinfish-code.blogspot.com/2025/06/loca...
goblinfish-code.blogspot.com/2025/06/loca...
Busy day today, so I forgot to post about my latest blog article this morning.
Taking a closer look at the challenges involved with detecting and setting test-expectations for managed attributes (and their equivalents) in #Python classes.
goblinfish-code.blogspot.com/2025/05/firs...
Taking a closer look at the challenges involved with detecting and setting test-expectations for managed attributes (and their equivalents) in #Python classes.
goblinfish-code.blogspot.com/2025/05/firs...
First thoughts on reworking managed attribute test-expectations
When last I wrote about the goblinfish-testing-pact package , I had a checklist of things that I was going to pursue: ...
goblinfish-code.blogspot.com
May 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Busy day today, so I forgot to post about my latest blog article this morning.
Taking a closer look at the challenges involved with detecting and setting test-expectations for managed attributes (and their equivalents) in #Python classes.
goblinfish-code.blogspot.com/2025/05/firs...
Taking a closer look at the challenges involved with detecting and setting test-expectations for managed attributes (and their equivalents) in #Python classes.
goblinfish-code.blogspot.com/2025/05/firs...
#UnitTest #Python
goblinfish-code.blogspot.com/2025/05/when...
As it turns out, there were some fundamental problems with the testing-strategy I had in mind for testing the PACT processes (problems with how I'd planned to implement those tests, not with which tests needed to be implemented).
goblinfish-code.blogspot.com/2025/05/when...
As it turns out, there were some fundamental problems with the testing-strategy I had in mind for testing the PACT processes (problems with how I'd planned to implement those tests, not with which tests needed to be implemented).
When not to mock or patch
Despite taking a break from working on the unit test stubs for the goblinfish-testing-pact package , it hasn’t been far from my thoughts, f...
goblinfish-code.blogspot.com
May 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM
#UnitTest #Python
goblinfish-code.blogspot.com/2025/05/when...
As it turns out, there were some fundamental problems with the testing-strategy I had in mind for testing the PACT processes (problems with how I'd planned to implement those tests, not with which tests needed to be implemented).
goblinfish-code.blogspot.com/2025/05/when...
As it turns out, there were some fundamental problems with the testing-strategy I had in mind for testing the PACT processes (problems with how I'd planned to implement those tests, not with which tests needed to be implemented).
goblinfish-code.blogspot.com/2025/05/loca...
While taking a break from my writing about unit-testing PACT package, I wanted to start writing about another idea that I had, that I'm going to write and package code for.
While taking a break from my writing about unit-testing PACT package, I wanted to start writing about another idea that I had, that I'm going to write and package code for.
Local AWS API Gateway development with Python
I’m going to take a break from writing posts about the goblinfish-testing-pact package for a bit — The work on it is still going on in th...
goblinfish-code.blogspot.com
May 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
goblinfish-code.blogspot.com/2025/05/loca...
While taking a break from my writing about unit-testing PACT package, I wanted to start writing about another idea that I had, that I'm going to write and package code for.
While taking a break from my writing about unit-testing PACT package, I wanted to start writing about another idea that I had, that I'm going to write and package code for.
The next steps for the #PACT testing processes in a standard #Python #UnitTesting framework after the base functionality was initially established in v.0.0.3.
goblinfish-code.blogspot.com/2025/05/next...
goblinfish-code.blogspot.com/2025/05/next...
Next steps after v.0.0.3
With the release of v.0.0.3 of the package , the main functionality that I’d had in mind was complete. I’d also gotten the build-process ...
goblinfish-code.blogspot.com
May 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The next steps for the #PACT testing processes in a standard #Python #UnitTesting framework after the base functionality was initially established in v.0.0.3.
goblinfish-code.blogspot.com/2025/05/next...
goblinfish-code.blogspot.com/2025/05/next...
I still chuckle every time I notice the weather app on my phone saying that the UV index is low after sunset.
May 3, 2025 at 5:30 AM
I still chuckle every time I notice the weather app on my phone saying that the UV index is low after sunset.