Saturday, 8th January 2022
Hashids (via) Confusingly named because it’s not really a hash—this library (available in 40+ languages) offers a way to convert integer IDs to and from short strings of text based on a salt which, if kept secret, should help prevent people from deriving the IDs and using them to measure growth of your service. It works using a base62 alphabet that is shuffled using the salt.
TIL
Writing pytest tests against tools written with argparse
— I usually build command-line tools using [Click](https://click.palletsprojects.com/) (and my [click-app](https://github.com/simonw/click-app) cookiecutter template), which includes a really nice [set of tools](https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/8.0.x/testing/) for writing tests.