Tuesday, 15th March 2022
Contributing to Complex Projects (via) Mitchell Hashimoto describes in detail his process for understanding and eventually contributing to a complex new codebase. I picked up a whole bunch of useful tips from this.
Bugs in Hello World. If a Unix program attempts to send its standard output to /dev/full it should return an error code. Many classic “hello world” programs fail to correctly handle this case.
typesplainer (via) A Python module that produces human-readable English descriptions of Python type definitions—also available as a web interface.
TIL
Concatenating strings and newlines in Google Sheets
— I was asked if there was a way to run [shot-scraper](https://github.com/simonw/shot-scraper) against a list of URLs in a Google Sheet.