I was getting this intermittent error running my Datasette test suite:

Day 28 of 90 Days of DevOps - Configuration Management at Scale. Part of the Infrastructure as Code series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.

I've been using [Postgres.app](https://postgresapp.com/) to run PostgreSQL on my Mac for years. I like that it's easy to install, gives me a task t...

I spotted a neat looking project links section on https://pypi.org/project/ExifReader/

Day 27 of 90 Days of DevOps - Ansible Vault and Security. Part of the Infrastructure as Code series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.

I spotted an intriguing note in the release notes for [osxphotos 0.51.7](https://github.com/RhetTbull/osxphotos/releases/tag/v0.51.7):

I've been experimenting with the HTML [dialog element](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/dialog) recently, for example in m...

I really like [Playwright](https://playwright.dev/) for writing automated tests for web applications using a headless browser. It's pretty easy to ...

Tiny TIL today: I learned how to make an HTTP call to an IPv6 address. The trick is to enclose the address in the URL in square braces:

Tip via Mark Norman Francis [on Twitter](https://twitter.com/cackhanded/status/1423526489623044098):

Day 26 of 90 Days of DevOps - Ansible Roles and Galaxy. Part of the Infrastructure as Code series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.

[Datasette](https://datasette.io/) is implemented as an ASGI application.

I use [ReadTheDocs](https://readthedocs.org/) for several of my projects. It's fantastic: among other things, it makes it easy to publish the docum...

Day 25 of 90 Days of DevOps - Ansible Introduction and Playbooks. Part of the Infrastructure as Code series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.

I learned this trick today while [browsing the code](https://github.com/tersesystems/blacklite/blob/main/blacklite-core/src/main/resources/com/ters...

Day 24 of 90 Days of DevOps - Terraform Modules and Best Practices. Part of the Infrastructure as Code series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.

Day 23 of 90 Days of DevOps - Terraform Resources and State Management. Part of the Infrastructure as Code series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.

Day 22 of 90 Days of DevOps - Terraform Basics and Provider Setup. Part of the Infrastructure as Code series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.

I wanted to write a bash script that would start a Datasette server running, run a request against it using `curl`, then stop the server again.

This classic Peruvian cocktail recipe is particularly useful if you have both a lemon tree and chickens producing fresh eggs!

Day 21 of 90 Days of DevOps - Infrastructure as Code Concepts. Part of the Infrastructure as Code series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.

I save things like API keys in [1Password](https://1password.com/). Today I figured out how to access those from macOS terminal scripts.

Day 20 of 90 Days of DevOps - Building Your First CI/CD Pipeline. Part of the Version Control & CI/CD series covering essential DevOps concepts and hands-on practices.

I had [a Django project](https://github.com/natbat/cbwg) that used `pipenv` (in particular a `Pipfile.lock`) to manage dependencies and I wanted to...