Yesterday, I was reading this heated debate on the GIMP issue tracker which was also perhaps the most discussed topic of the day. Offensive behavior is a very serious and delicate topic, and needs to be handled with care. More importantly, rules should be codified which can objectively determine whether... Read More

After reading the agile manifesto, I felt like it is too one-sided and imbalanced, it gives too much importance to some aspects of software development and belittles the other. The stuff they give prominence to isn’t any extraordinary new age rocket science (though the practitioners of agile try very hard... Read More

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

A few days ago, I made this DEV.to post about how Python’s PIP lacks GPG package signing. Well, it turns out that I’m wrong! It does have a package signing process after all, only its one of the most manual, archaic and cumbersome security practices I’ve seen till date. I... Read More

Today, I finished migration of my blog from a self-hosted Wordpress site to a statically hosted Github Pages site. For the static site generator, instead of choosing Jekyll which is a hot favorite of rubyists, I went for Pelican instead as I figured my Python skills might be somewhat useful... Read More

StackOverflow is the digital equivalent of the Holy See or the Holy Mecca when it comes to programming. It is that place where developers go visit when they don’t have answers to their coding problems in a hope that the Gods of StackOverflow will help them solve it. But lately,... Read More