In this post I'll talk about Pipx's major use cases, its limitations, and how to get more mileage out of it with a few simple tweaks.
You're not imagining things — the blog has a whole new look, in large part as a result of switching to the Nikola site generator.
fixup! added listHappy new year to all.
Today's post is about a folder on my desktop named dev. It's where I've kept (for many years, well into my Windows-using days, even into the era when I used SVN rather than Git) all my working copies for my own projects (and forks of others'), mostly Python code of course. (I'm not sure how I organized things at the time, but there are projects in there dating back to 2006.)
This post is a start of a series I've planned about how packaging currently works in Python, what's wrong with it, and how to cope with the problems. But before I get into the meat of it, I want to talk about common complaints that don't resonate with me.
# TODO: finish todo list
This is a difficult post to write, largely because of the self-critique involved. Which is part of why I've been putting it off. For months, if I'm honest with myself.
But putting it off has only made it harder to write. I also seem to have reached a point where it psychologically feels impossible to publish anything else here first. So, I'm finally forcing myself to write it now — during the holiday season, to prove to myself that I can.
It's no secret that the history of this blog so far has been dominantly one of false starts. Please allow me a moment to explain how that came to be.