Subtitle: Why our team ditched Unix timestamps and embraced the all-mighty ISO8601 format Intro: Time flies, but not in the world of software development! As developers, we’re constantly faced with choices, and when it comes to dealing with dates and times, the debate between Unix timestamps and ISO8601 is never-ending…

My friend, Devon had a phrase when something was so bad it was worse than a dumpster fire, it was a “floating dumpster fire”. That creates such a vivid image, and it is a perfect non-descript prompt for an AI art generator. Such art generated from an AI is in…

I have recently been getting really into Pulumi, and I am finding it help my life in really cool ways. For example, I have a gitlab runner that I create from a GCP Compute Instance. Pulumi has allowed me to automate the creation and deletion of these runners with incredible…

If you are here, you know how big of a pain setting up a local dev environment can be. I have tried many solutions, but none of them are as quick or as easy as the one I will present here. Things we will work with: docker/docker-compose Some frontend framework (React, Angular, Vue, etc) Some backend service…

Please note, this article uses repl.it to show examples of code in an interactive way. These might take a few seconds to load. Trust me, it’s worth the wait. Python is a very powerful language. It has rich syntax, powerful language features, and some random fun, not so serious easter…

Python generators are pretty rad and less scary than the slender man image you have in your mind. It is lunch time and Sammy Sandwiches food truck pulls in to the parking lot next to your office. A line of people queue up next to the truck. Sammy begins taking…

Python 3.5 brought with it asyncio. An event loop based paradigm previously available as a library but now it is built in as a standard library. There are other async libraries out there, but I am going to focus on the one built in to Python. Creating an event loop …