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Posts

2022

2022, Jan 04 - Is Rust worth learning? Part 1: logs and secrets

2021

2021, Sep 14 - Merge first, ask questions later - Optimistic Merging in practice

2021, Feb 02 - Two awesome Rust warnings

2020

2020, Nov 19 - dmerej.info: now on the Gemini space

2020, May 30 - "It's a waste of time!"

2020, Apr 25 - Tips for better Python tests

2020, Apr 18 - symlinks and .so files on linux - what you need to know

2019

2019, Nov 16 - Classes Rock

2019, Nov 09 - Classes Suck

2019, Jul 27 - I am a rusty frog

2019, Jul 24 - Requests: What You Need To Build Useful Apps

2019, May 05 - dmerej.info: now also in French

2019, Apr 21 - The virtue of incremental development

2019, Mar 25 - Crafting command line outputs

2019, Feb 07 - My Blogging Flow - Part 2 - Publishing

2019, Feb 06 - My Blogging Flow - Part 1 - Under the hood

2019, Jan 30 - Killing unwrap()

2019, Jan 12 - Letting the compiler tell you what to do - an example using Rust

2019, Jan 11 - I am writing a book about CI

2019, Jan 02 - A definition of the Linux desktop

2018

2018, Oct 14 - ruplacer: find and replace text in source files

2018, Oct 04 - Syntax Highlighting Is Useless

2018, Sep 08 - Comparing directories: a case study

2018, Aug 28 - Tips From a Build Farmer - Part 2: Some concepts

2018, Aug 20 - Tips From a Build Farmer - Part 1: CI scripts are scary

2018, Aug 18 - Introducing "Tips From a Build Farmer"

2018, Aug 09 - Je cherche une asso

2018, Aug 13 - Hello flake8

2018, Aug 07 - Bye-bye pylint

2018, Jul 17 - Please verify your email on pypi.org and test.pypi.org

2018, Jul 12 - Else after return: yea or nay?

2018, Jul 07 - Twitter Timeline Cleaner

2018, Sep 18 - Let's Build Chuck Norris! - Part 8: Using C++ in an iOS application

2018, Jun 18 - Let's Build Chuck Norris! - Part 7: Android and JNA

2018, Jun 05 - Let's Build Chuck Norris! - Part 6: Cross-compilation for Android

2018, Jun 04 - Adventures in CI land

2018, Jun 11 - Giving mypy a go

2018, May 27 - I don't need types

2018, May 18 - A boolean's story

2018, May 08 - Introducing rusync

2018, Apr 12 - Where Software Lives

2018, Apr 07 - Let's Build Chuck Norris! - Part 5: Python and cffi

2018, Mar 31 - Let's Build Chuck Norris! - Part 4: Python and ctypes

2018, Mar 25 - Let's Build Chuck Norris! - Part 3: A C wrapper

2018, Mar 18 - Let's Build Chuck Norris! - Part 2: SQLite and conan

2018, Mar 10 - Let's Build Chuck Norris! - Part 1: CMake and Ninja

2018, Mar 10 - Introducing the "Let's Build Chuck Norris!" Project

2018, Mar 01 - Porting to pytest: a practical example

2018, Feb 18 - Helping BBC subtitlers

2018, Feb 18 - Introducing "Quantum of Ideas"

2018, Jan 26 - Additions to: "How to Prepare a Talk", by Gary Bernhardt

2017

2017, Oct 18 - My Javascript Workflow

2017, Sep 17 - Why You Should Try TDD

2017, Sep 09 - Parsing Config Files The Right Way

2017, Aug 20 - Exceptional Python

2017, Aug 05 - Non isomorphic C++ refactoring

2017, Jul 31 - Introducing tsrc

2017, Jul 22 - How I Use Git

2017, Jul 08 - Let's have a pint of (vim) ale!

2017, Jun 21 - Lessons Learned From A Failed Pull Request

2017, Jun 10 - Rewriting z from scratch, part 2

2017, May 21 - Rewriting z from scratch

2017, May 17 - fzf for the win

2017, May 06 - Interfaces and Annotations in Python3

2017, May 01 - Why Mastodon

2017, Apr 14 - How I Lint My Python

2017, Apr 10 - Introducing python-cli-ui

2017, Apr 08 - CMake, Visual Studio, and the Command Line

2017, Feb 11 - Heard and Seen at FOSDEM 2017

2017, Jan 31 - symlinks made easier

2017, Jan 28 - Twitter and me, me and twitter

2017, Jan 22 - Introducing dmerej's newsletter

2017, Jan 23 - Is TDD Worth It?

2017, Jan 06 - How to build decentralized social networks

2016

2016, Dec 17 - Neovim, cwd, NERDTree and CtrlP

2016, Dec 03 - Deploying Python Apps The Easy Way

2016, Nov 20 - A Simple Problem

2016, Nov 05 - This Blog Now Has Comments

2016, Oct 30 - Writing Clean Shell Scripts

2016, Oct 01 - Thoughts on Changelogs

2016, Sep 24 - docopt v argparse

2016, Sep 17 - An npm Story

2016, Aug 27 - Meaningful Variable Names and the Boy Scout Rule

2016, Jul 23 - Some pylint tips

2016, Jul 19 - Why I Don't Like Ruby

2016, Jul 09 - A Nasty Mac Virus, or How I Learned To Love the App Store

2016, Jul 02 - When TDD Fails

2016, Jun 28 - Why I Love Arch Linux

2016, Jun 18 - Is Line Coverage Meaningless?

2016, Jun 04 - My Thoughts on: 'Why Most Unit Testing is Waste'

2016, May 28 - Never Type the Same Path Twice

2016, Apr 30 - Vim, cwd, and Neovim

2016, Apr 23 - Don't Use Short Options!

2016, Apr 16 - pytest rocks

2016, Apr 10 - Parsing nginx Logs

2016, Apr 07 - Finding a Good Project Name

2016, Mar 31 - I Use Vim, And So Should You

2016, Mar 31 - Hello, world