How being lazy, led me to publicize my first python package,There is a common saying, in the software industry, which goes like: I want to hire a lazy developer because he will fin...

Ever wished for a pull request dependency check? You've got it., Pull Requests are a thing (like it or not) Those of us that work with GitHub, either contributing to some open-sour...

Context information storage for asyncio,At Sqreen, we are building an agent based on dynamic instrumentation. It detects security incidents from inside an application (injections, ...

Deploying Java Apps with Kubernetes and the Ambassador API Gateway,In this article you’ll learn how to deploy three simple Java services into Kubernetes (running locally via the n...

Mashpack - Beating Messagepack at its own Game,Mashpack is a JSON-object serialization format that is a 'dialect' of the popular format Messagepack. I read Messagepacks specificati...

Code Generation Is Easy - With Picocog,Picocog is a lightweight and new open-source Java library created to make programmatic code generation (or metaprogramming) clean, and easy t...

Regex was taking 5 days to run. So I built a tool that did it in 15 minutes.,When developers work with text, they often need to clean it up first. Sometimes it’s by replacing keyw...

On the Importance of Packaging,You have an idea and want to turn it into a bit of code to carry it out. What do you do? You open up your IDE/Editor, perhaps you structure it inside...

Debug Like a Champion, As Pareto’s Law says: Software development is 20% of the time developing and 80% debugging. Imagine how powerful you could become if you cut down the debugg...

Open Source: The itch, the hustle and the merge,DISCLAIMER: Before you begin, be aware that the protagonist of any fictional account that this write-up might contain would be a mal...

Nevertheless, Rebecca Bilbro Coded, I began coding because... I began learning Python a few years ago because it's a good way to solve the kinds of problems I have to address at wo...