I happen to maintain a lot of python projects on github such as distroverify and vtscan. And each time I make a tagged release on Github, I have to make a status tweet like this to let people know: So today I thought why not automate this process by writing … Read More

You know, sometimes when I read those python aphorisms like "beautiful is better than ugly" I wonder whether the makers were being sarcastic or real, and I'm not kidding! Its not just about listdir and scandir, a whole lot of things are ambiguous and you'll find a lot of different … Read More

I'm a huge fan of simple things in life, things that achieve a lot with minimal efforts or configuration from the user's end. And whenever I come across such simple things, I like to share it with everyone and that's what I'm doing now. In my recent flask based web … Read More

I maintain several python projects on github and some of them like VTScan has a need for user configuration. Now python has a plethora of ways and standards for parsing of configuration files like json, *.ini files, etc., but there is no standard about where to save them on the … Read More

Conventional git commit messages are not just nice to have but great to have. In fact, once you get to know them, you'll start feeling that they are essential in any serious programming project. Consider the difference between following two commit messages for instance: git commit -m "added social login … Read More

When Linus Torvalds wrote the Linux Kernel in 1991 or Ian Murdock first released the Debian OS in 1993, talking about the "openness" of a PC or the "right to repair it" would have been a laughable affair! 8086 was an open standard then (just as standards should be) and … Read More

Socialism and Communism have a lot in common, both ideologies aim to bring an equilibrium and welfare in the society by removing the income inequality between the rich and the poor. However, how they both go about doing their business is what makes the difference between sky and earth. Whilst … Read More

What distinguishes GPL from other freedom licenses is their premise: The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or GPL) is a widely used free software license, which guarantees end users the freedom to run, study, share and modify the software. The GPL or copyleft strives for the freedom of the … Read More

The other day, I was going through this medium post which describes the kind of chaos and insecurity currently plaguing the JavaScript world, and the numero uno reason for that is the astronomical number of npm packages. When you usually install a non-trivial library or application through a package manager … Read More

Not even a month has been passed since Microsoft gave a big surprise to the world at large and the open source community by acquiring Github Inc. a few days ago, and there has been another acquisition yesterday. This time, Twitter Inc. bought the well known online service Smyte. Smyte … Read More