ssebastianj

You could also show Python docs on a Kindle using its experimental browser:

1. On the development machine: $ python3 -m pydoc -n 0.0.0.0 -p 8888

2. On the Kindle web browser: http://DOCS_MACHINE_IP:8888

It's slow, sometimes times renders with ghosting, ant-sized fonts, but hey, the docs' search works. I rarely (almost never) use this setup but is nice to use the Kindle for other uses apart from books

I agree, in fact, until today I wasn't even aware about QAOps!

> There are no logs when someone connects or is trying to connect, so auditing or troubleshooting becomes extremely difficult short of packet captures.

I'm wondering if this would be a use case for eBPF

Indeed, this method is cool. It allowed me to sniff the traffic between some poorly documented IoT device and a remote server (unencrypted, what else) via OpenWrt:

[0] https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/firewall/misc/tcpdump_wi...

There's a joint paper (dated 2017, I think) from engineers from Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, and Apple working on WebAssembly [0]

[0] https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/09/18/bringing-the-web-up-to-s...

"Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly" [PDF]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/raw/master/papers/pldi20...

> "The whole thing was just a drawn up window inside the phishing website!"

This reminds me the "Phishing Alert Toolbars" section from Ross Anderson's "Security Engineering" book on what he calls a "picture-in-picture website" [0]

[0] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/SEv2-c02.pdf

Just wondering, is there any reason why the Yubico FIDO2 Python API[0] talks to a USB device by using custom code to handle the USB protocol instead of using a module like PyUSB[1]?

[0] https://github.com/Yubico/python-fido2

[1] https://pyusb.github.io/pyusb/

Luckily, Django provides checks to avoid this kind of leakage before hitting production with https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/howto/deployment/check...

Relevant link: "PEP 563: Postponed Evaluation of Annotations" https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.7.html#pep-563-postpone...

Not the parent but on Ubuntu I use:

$ python -m pip ... # Use Python 2

$ python2 -m pip ... # If you want to be sure is using Python 2

$ python3 -m pip ... # Use Python 3

$ python3 -m venv ... # Create a virtualenv with Python 3 as documented on https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html to "prevent any potential confusion as to which Python interpreter a virtual environment will be based on"

I know it's verbose and long to type but looks explicit to me and saved me to use the wrong version of Python several times.

Oh, didn't know about the "xray" project. So, the question I asked in 2016 is (in some way) becoming a reality: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11308553

I'd also recommend "Magic Ink: Information Software And The Graphical Interface": http://worrydream.com/#!/MagicInk

Confirmed from Argentina.

From Cloudflare Status: "Resolver Timeouts" https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/2mz3wly2g7dy

Yeah, I recently "discovered" the commands 'whatis' [0] and 'apropos' [1] and my experience learning Linux improved quite a bit.

[0] https://linux.die.net/man/1/whatis

[1] https://linux.die.net/man/1/apropos

Ha! I feel your pain. That's what I ended up doing for an application a few years ago, wrote a Python script to compile the Qt Designer generated code to Python code [0]

[0] https://github.com/ssebastianj/ia2013-tpi-rl/blob/master/gui...

Going back and forth between Qt Designer and PyDev was (is?) ancient. Unfortunately I couldn't find a way to automate the compilation step (perhaps with a hook from Qt Designer?)

I don't know if that it's exclusive on ThinkPads but I love that feature. Now I'm using TLP[0] to re(calibrate) the batteries (main and extra) on a ThinkPad running Linux, it uses "tp-smapi-dkms" or "acpi-call-dkms" behind the scenes.

[0] http://linrunner.de/en/tlp/docs/tlp-linux-advanced-power-man...

Nice, didn't know about "\ls"! I wonder what's the difference between "\ls" and "command ls". Yes, it's a bit longer to type but the output is the same, I'm asking about what happens behind the scenes.

Take a look to School of Life's "Finding your mission" video [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5-LfK2i2J4

My first (and current) mechanical keyboard was a Corsair K70 non-RGB with Cherry MX Browns. I don't game so I use it mostly for work-related tasks: programming, writing docs, books. I'm quite happy with it so far.

Another happy user of a T450 here :)

And if IRC is not enough we could get back to Pigeon Post[0] running over "IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service"[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_post [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2549

Something I didn't know until recently was that PyCharm debugger was a cross-project cooperation between PyDev people and PyCharm people [0]

[0] https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2016/05/debugger-intervie...

> (...) I know some people like the light speed of Sublime, but to me there's a certain threshold where it's just fast enough. (...)

I feel the same way too. I was a Sublime Text fan/user for a few years until did the change to Atom and finally settle down on VSC two years ago. VSC is fast enough for me. Also, LSP seems interesting, ripgrep-backed search, official support for Python (as an extension) and so on.

EDIT: formatting

Don't forget "Dark Patterns" [0]

[0] https://darkpatterns.org

Maybe a confidential-linter or git pre-commit hook would be nice to prevent leaking confidential information.

This somewhat reminds me to the "The Funniest Joke in the World" by Monty Python: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Funniest_Joke_in_the_World

- Python for VS Code: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=donjayam...

- Django Template: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bibhasdn...

- Django Snippets: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bibhasdn...

I'm using Google Public DNS too. I don't really know if there is a relation with DynDNS but I'm still experiencing issues in GitHub and Twitter, like partial loading of images.

The Python coding experience in VS Code is very nice. Regarding to debugging Python code, can't say much about it just because I started using it yesterday. Even so, was a pleasant experience too.

I was looking for a way to cover the mics and webcam integrated in my laptop which doesn't require a tape. So, I grabbed a couple of those magnets stripes usually found on fridges and then , using a scissor, made two little rectangular stripes and a larger one. Next, I glued the little stripes on the laptop, near close the mics. The nice thing is that the large stripe covers both, the mics and webcam. For me, it's an easy way to cover/uncover fast.