Since late January, the python package index (PyPI) supports archiving projects/packages. This is, in fact, a very welcome feature, since it clearly tells without any doubt when a package is no longer maintained and will not receive any further updates. It makes it easier for the person looking for packages, to know which ones deserve […]
Nowadays most software developed using the Python language relies on external packages (dependencies) to get the job done. Correctly managing this “supply-chain” ends up being very important and having a big impact on the end product. As a developer you should be cautious about the dependencies you include on your project, as I explained in […]
If you are like me, you have a bunch of notes and documents written in markdown spread across many folders. Even the documentation of some projects involving many people is done this way and stored, for example, in a git repository. While it is easy to open the text editor to read these files, it […]