Tips and tricks

An assortment of quick tips to help you make your technical documentation (docstrings, READMEs) easier to read.

What would open-source software (OSS) contributors have known before they started? I asked and got lots of answers.

Are you a developer who uses macOS, and do you want to add project names to your localhost development URLs? Here is how I created custom URLs for my localhost projects.

You may know and love Docker, but do you know you are probably stuffing too many files into your images? I know I was. There is a remarkably simple solution, though: ignoring all files by default.

Specialized tools are helpful, but it's the pretty print module that I go for when I need to debug a value in Python. I use a Visual Code (VS Code) snippet to load it quickly.

I often use Visual Studio Code (VSCode) snippets for small bits of code and learned something exciting today: snippet variables.