Jack's blog

I spent this weekend scratching a personal itch.

In past years I diligently tracked the books I read on Goodreads.

I have a dirt cheap NUC desktop with a windows installation that I use primarily for recording guitar.

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Recently on lobste.rs someone posted the article If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?

My clumsy ass managed to drop and break my second phone in a row.

This week at $WORK I went on a bit of a side quest investigating why pytest collection was so slow.

I'm no expert in writing type signatures for my Python code.

At work I'll regularly connect my REPL to our dev and staging environments (via a DB proxy) to explore & debug issues.

I recently discovered this neat little trick in Python: using a recursive defaultdict to easily build a tree data-structure. >>> from collections import defaultdict >>> def tree(): return defaultdict(tree) This allows you to very quickly build up a tree:…