My first home server dropped off the network. I caught it in time for my cron scripts to recover, but it made me realize that the whole thing can fail silently. I’m using a dead man switch now (healthchecks.io) now so that won't happen again.

@monkeyseemonkeydo.lv #pythoncoding #cron

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I paid for the whole computer I get to break the whole computer

I'm new here but is anyone calling their .env a dot-envy file?

#pythoncoding

The feature (and bug waiting to happen) is also the reason I recommend using trailing commas for lists, dictionaries, sets, and function calls that wrap over multiple lines: pym.dev/trailing-com...

Also note that Guido isn't a fan of this feature either:
lwn.net/Articles/551...

@nws.noaa.gov the API for Norfolk hasn't updated in 24 hours, hope it's something minor!

@noaacomms.noaa.gov #bugreport

Sad to see Pittsburgh City Paper going away. In 1996, the then-young weekly gave me a shot and I got to learn from John Hayes, Chris Potter, Bill O'Driscoll and Lisa Cunningham, among many others. Our region's media landscape loses a source of lively, community reporting triblive.com/business/pit...

Needed to clean code after my first major rewrite.

'Coverage.py' is awesome, showed exactly what isn't getting called. I silently broke something on the path to email alerts for the error logger. Oops...

@nedbat.com #python #coding

I butchered my beautiful first code. Tore it to pieces to get it working with a different API to get a data pipeline in place before Jan 1.

First production script, first time running amok to hit a deadline.

It works though....

#python #postgresql

It's just for-loops all the way down

#python #coding

99 Percent Invisible has me wondering if I've been saying "F.A.Q.s" wrong my whole life. "Facks"!?

How do you say it?

@99pi.org @romanmars.bsky.social @vivianhle.bsky.social #facts

Crisis in progress.

After 2 weeks on my first big project:

The data from the API isn't valid.

Learning about troubleshooting and pivoting and how to reuse what I've already written.

AI for learning:

Don't ask GPT to fix your code.

Ask for it to do a code review and highlight weaknesses without giving you the answers.

#python #postgres #chatgpt #ai #aiforlearning

Top Python Libraries of 2025 (11th Edition)

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Waking up to error emails from my server...

...means my first production python script is working.

#raspberrypi #python #postgres

First major challenge: Python JSON would not load into Postgres.

Solution: lie and call it a really long string.

#python #postgres #sql

Highly recommend "How Git Works" by @paoloperrotta.bsky.social for an introduction to version control. He makes it very easy to understand and you'll be making your first commits in less than an hour.

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