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From Frustration to Power: What We Learned at Nixcademy
Read more »: From Frustration to Power: What We Learned at NixcademyWe recently completed two days of Nixcademy training, exploring the powerful yet complex Nix and NixOS ecosystem. After five years of experience, the course still offered valuable insights—especially about overlays and fixed-point recursion—that turn frustration into empowerment. If you’re working with Nix or planning to, this course can save you months of struggle.
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Sprint season is open
Read more »: Sprint season is openI used to go to a ton of sprints. Then I got kids. So I made sprints come to me by organizing four OceanSprints. Now that kids are a bit older, it was time to attend a sprint again. What better choice than ThaigerSprint, an offspring of OceanSprint? It was such a relief not being…
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NixCon 2024 Berlin
Read more »: NixCon 2024 BerlinEver since the day NixCon 2024 dates were published, I was sad I was not going to be able to make it due to some personal stuff taking place that week. But then about 10 days before the event, the personal stuff got moved, and I was free to go! Yay, Berlin! It was so…
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PyCon JP 2024
Read more »: PyCon JP 2024Another Year, Another PyCon Japan Another year, another fantastic PyCon Japan! This year’s conference in Tokyo was filled with insightful talks, interesting conversations, and a welcoming community that made every attendee feel right at home. As always, PyCon Japan proved to be more than just a tech conference; it was a celebration of everything that…
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EuroPython 2023
Read more »: EuroPython 2023EuroPython in 2018 was my first international conference. After five years, I eagerly joined another EuroPython. I hopped on a night train and woke up with a view of beautiful sunflower fields near Prague. With the conference starting the next day, I had some spare time to explore the charming city. In the evening I…
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Fast development on NixOS
Read more »: Fast development on NixOSWe’ve been using NixOS for a few years, and it has proven to be a stable and reliable OS. More importantly, it’s declarative and reproducible, which is one of the main reasons we decided to migrate ~700 of our Ubuntu servers to NixOS. However, it has a few downsides, and one of the biggest ones…
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PyCon JP 2022
Read more »: PyCon JP 2022It’s good to be back! The past two PyCons in Japan have been online, so it was nice to be back in person where you could actually enjoy the little things in between talks like meeting and talking to other attendees and exhibitors. This year, the event took place in Ariake, Tokyo, which is home…
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NixCon Paris 2022
Read more »: NixCon Paris 2022After three years, we finally got a proper IRL NixCon. Since the Nix community is not the biggest one, it was nice to talk about Nix for three days (two at the conference and one at the sprint). We heard many interesting talks and answered a few important questions. So let’s start with the most…
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Indispensable pytest plugins
Read more »: Indispensable pytest pluginsI’ve been babbling on about testing for a decade now. Here’s a quick list of pytest plugins I use in most of my Python projects: pytest-cov – pytest integration for the wonderful coverage tool by Ned Batchelder. pytest-mock – pytest integration for the unittest.mock library. pytest-instafail – Print out the test failure as it…
