Category: Best Practices

  • Just a reminder: Libraries/Packages can contain bad stuff

    This is a very short entry for now, but I thought I couldn’t skip it. Bad Libraries This year in a conference, someone demoed how you could really do some harm if you were able to create libraries and get people to use those in Python. Essentially, “all there is to it” (I’m being simplistic…

  • A tidy running environment

    A clean environment is rather “hard work” to maintain I always worry that installing stuff on my laptop will creep up my machine. I don’t like re-installing (not if that means using up my own spare time). So I try to install as little as possible (it’s also simply a matter of “reducing the attack…

  • So much space for improvement

    This is both great and worrisome… Simply put, I can’t know it all, and as this is mostly on my spare time (programming is not even in my job description, although I do program to make my team’s life easier), maybe I shouldn’t even try. But as the concept of Kaizen goes (the way I…