Pipenv is dead. It went all of 2019 without a single release, despite about 650 commits to master since the last release. Comments from developers on the project explain it “has been held back by several subdependencies and a complicated release process”. In the past, there were also comments that…

Code at rest is a dreary thing. Worse than that, it’s ignored. Software is wondrous because it can be distributed for pennies, and with open-source software, licensed for free. However, source code or even binaries don’t do anything unless they’re run. Knowing how to run code can be tricky, you…

In the ChiPy Ultimate Language Shootout, shooters have 5 minutes to extol the virtues of their chosen (non-Python) language. For the event in October, I chose the Atmel AVR flavor of assembly because I could torture the definition of “ultimate” to point unequivocally to it, plus I could come up with a fun theme around it. Someone declared they would represent Babbage’s Analytical Engine, taking an even lower-level tack that could undercut my position, but they were a no-show.