People on my team asked me some time ago how I debug things in our python code base. So I thought I’d share here.

The easiest (and least efficient) way to debug is to use print statements and logging. But since you’re not using a real debugger, you need to update the code and rerun in order to get new results.

Hence the most efficient way to debug things in python is to use a debugger. Don’t be scared, they are easy to master and they’ll serve you nicely for the rest of your life. They all are very similar.

We’ve just hit this point in our project (packit) that we want to split it to two repositories: CLI tool and a web service. I was thinking of keeping the git history for files I want to move to the other repository. There is a ton tutorials and guides how to do such a thing. This is what worked for me: Clone the original repository. Have a list of files I want to remove:…

I wanted to update my gentoo box once again. I did last update probably ~6 months ago. This usually means for me that I get a ton of conflicts:

Exciting times! I just released ansible-bender-0.5.0.

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PoC Definition: Can ansible-bender run inside an OpenShift origin pod?
Answer: Yes!

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