Coding on the Steam Deck
I got the Valve Steam Deck last month and have instantly become obsessed with it. I wanted to know if I could use it as a linux dev machine, knowing that it was essentially a full blown PC under the hood.
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Python isn’t Used in Prod
I watched a video earlier this week by comedian and mathematician Matt Parker. It’s an entertaining walkthrough of some impressive optimisation of his own Python code by his community but there's a comment about Python that I thought warranted some pushback.
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PyCon UK 2022
This past weekend I've been attending PyCon UK. I'm particularly lucky in that I live a 10 min train ride from where it is located in Cardiff meaning its incredibly convenient and economic for me. As a Python dev located here, there's literally no excuse not to attend.
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Getting Poetry to use the active Pyenv to Create a Virtual Environment
I found with a new poetry install that it refused to use the pyenv version of Python.
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Developing on the Framework Laptop
Earlier this year I bought the 11th gen Framework Laptop to develop on. I share what I liked and disliked and how I got on with it.
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How to Set the Locale Used in Cypress Tests
When running some Cypress tests in Github Actions that were inspecting dates recently, I wanted to be able to set the locale of the browser
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Should You Pay for Github Copilot?
Unless you’ve been hidden under a rock, you’re likely aware of Copilot - Github’s (or Microsofts) AI pair programmer. It allows you to get help on the code you’re writing by bringing up suggestions through an autocomplete snippets when you begin typing code in your editor.
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