Python Trainer & Consultant. Author of unittest.mock. PSF Fellow. A hoopy frood. Python Core Dev. GenX. Also @mfoord He/him.
Joined December 2007
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Michael Foord retweeted
21 Jan 2025
I want to install Linux on my vacuum cleaner. Which distro sucks the most?
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New blog entry: Advanced Python Course major updates
agileabstractions.com/advanc…
Over the last year I've updated my Advanced Python course to be based on a series of modules that can more easily be adapted to the needs of any team. There's a lot more advanced material and ...
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20 Jan 2025
"I opened a book and in I strode. Now nobody can find me. I've left my chair, my house, my road, My town and my world behind me."
The Gruffalo creator's 3.1 million units sold in 2024 means she beats JK to claim the record for bestselling author since records began.
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20 Jan 2025
New Python Knowledge Share Video Online: List Comprehensions, Generator Expressions & Function Signatures
This one hour session is on working with data using enumerate, zip plus list comprehensions, generator expressions, and function signatures.
agileabstractions.com/new-vi…
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17 Jan 2025
Python is TIOBE Language of the Year in 2024
January Headline: Python is TIOBE's programming language of the year 2024!
This award is given to the programming language with the highest increase in ratings. Python gained a whopping 9.3% in 2024.
tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
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17 Jan 2025
The OSI has published my articles:
"The Absolute Minimum Every Python Web Application Developer Must Know About Security"
Part 1: Essential Web Security
The Defence in Depth approach, important security principles, OWASP Top 10, CVEs, tooling, etc...
opensource.net/essential-pyt…
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17 Jan 2025
Part 2: Security Cryptography Algorithms, a Guide
Cryptography algorithms, using the cryptography library and the Python standard library. Hashing, encryption, key exchange protocols and public/private key signature algorithms with their use cases.
opensource.net/security-cryp…
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17 Jan 2025
Part 3: TLS and Networking
Much of our security is network security from TLS. We now know when, how and why to use TLS. Plus look at the request->response cycle of HTTP, the abstraction layer developers work at, and the security issues around networking.
opensource.net/tls-and-netwo…
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Michael Foord retweeted
14 Jan 2025
#Python tip: Use "pass" to explicitly mean "do nothing" and "..." for "more code should go here."
def consume(iterator):
for _ in iterator:
pass
def stub(x, y, z):
# Someday, I will get to this
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16 Dec 2024
Object Oriented Theory with Python (2 day course)
agileabstractions.com/oopwit…
A practical course, now taught several times for the BBC.
An excellent course for data scientists, devops engineers and those self taught with Python looking to move beyond scripting into programming.
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16 Dec 2024
Python Knowledge Sharing Videos
agileabstractions.com/python…
Seven (so far) one hour long videos on core Python language topics like the core object model, closures, decorators and generators plus sessions on testing and concurrency.
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16 Dec 2024
Essential Python Web Security
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First part of a series: "The Absolute Minimum Every Python Web Application Developer Must Know About Security"
This is a rigorous look at Python web application security. "Full Stack Security: The Defence in Depth Approach".
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13 Nov 2024
DRAFT article: The Absolute Minimum Every Python Web App Developer Must Know About Security
bit.ly/4frFymc
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Michael Foord retweeted
1 Aug 2024
SIDS risk goes from 11 to 3 per 10,000 when parents sleep babies on their backs. So about 1430 parents need to sleep their baby on their back to save one baby's life, totalling *48620* hours of parental sleep lost per baby saved.
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Michael Foord retweeted
31 Jul 2024
#Python can be incredibly expressive. Here is a beautiful snippet for computing a mode from a list of unhashable, unsortable inputs.
max(data, key=data.count)
The running time is quadratic so only use this with smallish inputs.
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26 Jul 2024
I worked for a large firm where most of the developers thought they did agile because they did Scrum. Despite the six month release cycle with three week planning phase at the start of each release cycle (and the death march at the end)...
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