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A blog about Python, testing, and best practices
Personal blog · miguendes.me · on HN as miguendesprogramming
A blog about Python, testing, and best practices is a personal blog at miguendes.me about programming. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “How I Patched Python to Include This Ruby Feature”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog on Python, testing and best practices. One commenter points to a more detailed post on adding a Ruby-style feature to Python syntax, which they found more interesting than the submitted article.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Helping developers learn more about Python, testing, and best practices. I share everything I know through tutorials, and code examples.
Most-linked posts?
- How I Patched Python to Include This Ruby Feature3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-08-14
- How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot with Python. Part 12 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-25
- Examples to Help You Master Python's F-Strings2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-12
What Hacker News says?
https://miguendes.me https://eli.thegreenplace.net/ https://blog.acolyer.org/
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on “Ask HN: Favourite blogs?”Submitted 5 Hidden Python Features You Probably Never Heard Of as a story · 6 points
HN discussionNice article, I started learning f-strings from it. Shameless plug, last year I wrote one myself to document everything I knew about it. https://miguendes.me/73-examples-to-help-you-master-pythons-...
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on “Python 3's F-Strings: An Improved String Formatting Syntax”Submitted How I Patched Python to Include This Ruby Feature as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe linked, more detailed post in the article is far more interesting: https://miguendes.me/what-if-python-had-this-ruby-feature
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on “Adding syntax to the CPython interpreter”Submitted Different Ways to Flatten a List of Lists in Python as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThat looks interesting. I've recently move my blog[1] from Hugo to hashnode[2] and I really like it. It has tons of features and nice design, and apparently will always be free for personal use. How does your platform compare with it? Do you consider than a competitor or the focus is different? Edit: formatting [1] https://miguendes.me [2] https://hashnode.com
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on “Ask HN: Side-project that became your full-time job?”Submitted Examples to Help You Master Python's F-Strings as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYes, started a couple of weeks ago. I'm using hashnode but previously tried Hugo. I like hashnode better because it has a bunch of nice features and I still own the content. https://miguendes.me
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on “Ask HN: Do you have a personal website?”Submitted How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot with Python. Part 1 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://miguendes.me I write mostly about Python and everything related to it. I decided to create a blog because I wanted to improve my writing skills, English is not my first language and writing in English would be an opportunity to improve it, hopefully. I'm trying to be consistent and I release two articles a month, one every other week. The first version I used Hugo but I noticed that I was spending a long tim…
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on “Ask HN: Care to share your personal site?”Submitted How to Test Complex Data in Python as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI host my blog https://miguendes.me on hashnode.com and I'm very happy. I used to lose tons of time setting up hugo/jekyll and not writing anything. Once I move to hashnode I could focus on writing only as most of the things are out of the box. Most importantly, the content is yours and you can back the data up on github automatically. The only minor downside is that the images you upload is stored in their CDN. But…
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on “Ask HN: Alternatives to Ghost for Blogging?”Submitted Design Patterns That Make Sense in Python: Simple Factory as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot with Python. Part 1 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Set Up My Python Workspace as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Test API Client Applications in Python as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Patched Python to Include This Ruby Feature as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What If Python Had This Ruby Feature? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything You Need to Know About Python's Namedtuples as a story · 1 points
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