I stumbled on a surprising instance of Elixir being much easier to learn and use than Python: I was in each one’s REPL, comparing how to do some typical programming task. (I forget exactly, but it … (more…)

On newly created Ubuntu 16.04 AWS instances, we started seeing that python3.6 -m pip no longer works after get-pip.py (version 19.3.1). get-pip puts pip in /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip-20.2... (more…)

This should have been obvious to me for a longer time, but until earlier today I did not really realize the severity of the issues caused by str.format on untrusted user input. It came up as a way to bypass the Jinja2 Sandbox in a way that would permit r...

morse-talk - A Python library written for Morse Code... (more…)

If you have a passing interest in anything gaming related and haven't been living under a rock for the last couple years, you're probably somewhat familiar with Cyberpunk 2077. (more…)