A Minimalist’s Guide to pass— the Unix Password Manager Safely wrangle your secrets from the command-line using GPG encryption and a few intuitive commands. 1. Why pass? Single-purpose & transparent – every secret is just a GPG-encrypted file in ~/.password-store/. Leverages tools you already trust – GnuPG for encryption and standard Unix commands for everything else (grep, git, find, etc.). Portable & scriptable – works the same on any POSIX shell and is easy to automate.

A gentle, practical introduction to logging in Python Why bother with a dedicated logging library? Prints don’t scale. print() is fine during quick experiments, but real programs need a record that can be filtered, rotated, or shipped elsewhere. Separation of concerns. You decide what to log in your code; logging decides where and how to write it (console, file, etc.). Built-in, no extra dependency. The standard library’s logging module is powerful enough for most applications.

From Type Hint to Power Tool: Python’s Pathlib For a long time, I used Path from Python’s pathlib module purely as a type hint - a way to make function signatures look more modern and semantically clear. Like this: from pathlib import Path def process_file(file_path: Path): ... It changed when I started building an application that handled user-uploaded documents. I had to create temporary folders, write intermediate files, manage output paths, and ensure directories existed before saving results.

Meet uv – A Blazingly Fast, All‑in‑One Python Package Manager In my last post I dove into Poetry, one of the best‑loved modern packaging tools. However, Poetry is just one piece of an toolkit: we still reach for pip to install packages, virtualenv to isolate them, pyenv to juggle Python versions, and maybe Pipenv or pip‑tools for lock‑files. Each solves its own niche, yet hopping between them adds friction. uv removes that friction.

If you’re working with Git and Vim, vim-fugitive is an essential plugin that transforms your editor into a full-fledged Git interface. Here’s how I use Fugitive to review, stage, and commit changes—without ever leaving Vim. Browsing Git History and Logs First Before jumping into edits, it’s often useful to understand the file’s history or recent project changes. :Git log — shows the project’s commit history in reverse chronological order :0Gllog — shows the history of the current file To explore who changed what in a file:

DeepSeek’s latest moves have sent ripples through the AI community. Not only has it marked the beginning of a new era in artificial intelligence, but it has also made significant contributions to the open-source AI landscape. Their engineering techniques behind DeepSeek are truly impressive, and their reports are quite enjoyable. However, understanding their core ideas can be challenging and demands a substantial amount of effort. At the forefront of this innovation is DeepSeek-R1, a model that built upon the foundation established by preceding projects such as DeepSeek Coder, Math, MoE, and notably, the DeepSeek-V3 model.