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Handy pytest snippets
I seem to spend 90% of my time these days writing Python tests. Which one could argue is how it should be, but whatever.
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'Simple Moto examples'
Moto is a (the?) python AWS mocking package all good python AWS mockers use. The docs are pretty helpful, but personally I like a nice simple example I can copy and paste to start out with, reading is too much effort. Here's a few I've collected from around the internet …
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DynamoDB Keys for Beginners
I have never used DynamoDB before, I am a proper relational database person, but I have recently had to get into a (very simple) No-SQL db setup and there are some things that are quite different to a proper database, namely keys and indexes.
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'Remote Working Review - Month One(ish)'
I started working (almost) full time remote at the start of January. It's been two full months now, thought I'm not sure the first month really counts, so I thought it would be a good time to reflect on how it's going.
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PHP Patterns Part 1 - Repository Pattern
As I do more work at new work, I expect I will come across a few of these patterns that I don't know about. For some reason Software Design Patterns are a trigger for my deeply ingrained Imposter - I find myself regularly having to apologise for my lack of 'proper' …
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Short People Problems
As an exactly average height person, I have always struggled in jobs to find a comfortable way to work. Desks are always too high, chairs are too low, monitors never adjust enough... I've always had to beg for special stuff like foot rests, adjustable chairs, monitor arms etc so that …