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F3: flexible feature flags

I am still working on a legacy codebase, so even the smallest change feels slippery and made me fearful. When I was about to implement a not-so-small change in a data processing procedure taking place as one of the first steps of a bigger pipeline, as a painkiller I decided to ask a feature flag to come to the rescue!

A simple notification pattern based on apprise

In my current role I try to learn and experiment with side projects whenever I can. One of these regards the need to notify a developer as soon as an update has been made to internal tools (e.g. the latest release of a private Python library, a new page in the team's knowledge base, etc.).

After some research I came up with a simple solution based on a pub-sub architecture, Microsoft Teams webhook and the awesome Apprise.

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Three Python libraries for/with a great user experience

I am working on a super-opinionated solution to assume AWS roles via STS, both programmatically and to log into AWS Console. While searching in the Python ecosystem utilities to build CLI and GUI with, I discovered three libraries that offer a great user experience both for the end users and the developers that build with them.