“I can’t figure out how upload filters should work, but I’m not a technical person — surely someone who is can sort it out!”

That is a misconception. I’ll be happy to explain, requiring — I promise! — no technical understanding of what an upload filter is, or how it works.

Next Tuesday, the European Parliament is due to vote on something that will impact your life. Yes, yours.

If you ever write unit tests in Python, you are probably familiar with Ned Batchelder’s coverage tool. This article explains how you can use coverage in combination with tox and a GitLab CI pipeline, for coverage reports in your Python code.

Here’s a nice way to initialize a CLI argument parser in Python, with arbitrary levels of subcommands.

My presentation from linux.conf.au 2019.