Sometimes pip behaves rather oddly when it comes to package dependency resolution. Here’s one way to catch such issues in your CI pipeline.

I like tox. A lot. I use it all the time. This is a quick summary on how to use it in such a way that it becomes a central anchor point that you can use from all your CI systems.

My talk from PyConline AU 2020.

Asynchronous Celery tasks that manipulate a MySQL/Galera database from a Django application can produce very interesting behavior when HAProxy is involved.

Command-line interfaces frequently produce output whose verbosity your users may want to be able to tweak. Here’s a nifty way to do that.