Mock successful requests, failures and exceptions, and return multiple responses for the same URLs — Every corner on the internet appears to have different opinions on how to mock HTTP requests made via the requests module. There’s plenty of documentation and many helpful suggestions spread all over the place, so much so that (as usual) it’s difficult to find anything if you don’t already know…

Thank you for putting this together. There's a vast difference between knowing that this sort of thing is going on, and understanding the scope and scale of such a devious, unethical disinformation campaign. I've heard plenty about this sort of thing over the years, but this article sheds light into the dark corners and makes it crystal clear just how dangerously Kafkaesque the political landscape of animal agriculture has become.

How can this piece on school shootings still be relevant more than a decade later? — I wrote this piece sometime in 2014, and it breaks my heart that that I’m still reading new articles like Arie Kruglanski’s “Why do mass shooters kill? It’s about more than having a grievance”. …

Another rescued piece that’s been haunting me for years — This is a poem written in two parts: the first part was written in the middle of an awful night after an awful fight while my now-wife and I were not-exactly-vacationing* in a hotel room in Victoria B.C., …

It's far too easy to blame kids for acting out, when they've grown up in a pressure cooker of toxicity and despair. …

Access Control List Not Supported. AccessControlListNotSupported: The bucket does not allow ACLs. — This morning I walked in to the office to find our CI/CD pipeline on fire. Here is our first error of the day:

Another UX fail with potentially dire consequences — I recently wrote an article about MacOS making undesirable decisions for me about my “Focus Time”, and was sadly surprised to learn that I had a few coworkers who have also been hurt by that behavior. …

Why we need to be more wary of toxic “reality” entertainment — This article was inspired by my wife and I agreeing to turn off Power Slap: Road To The Title, after seeing enough to arrive at the conclusion that this is not the launch of a new and exciting sport, rather a disparate bunch of people being invited to hurt each…

Or, You Know, We Can Just Wait For The Next Lockdown To Clap For Them Again — A few days ago I came across The Anatomy of Your Salary from Philip Joubert, wherein he makes an economic argument for how salaries are determined that seems counterintuitive from a moral perspective, but is quite rational. In it he raises a compelling question about how we incentivize work that…