VisiData recently celebrated its fifth anniversary. It gets more capable and polished with every release, and hasn't lost its focus on quick exploration.

VisiData is an interactive data analysis tool for your terminal. Let's dig into one specific use case - exploring data files in S3.

Freezegun is a library for mocking Python datetimes. It does one thing, does it well, and lets you get on with your life.

It's useful to test for exceptions exceptions in your code. A handy feature of pytest makes that fun and flexible - let's see how it works!

The boto3 error message "'PageIterator' object is not an iterator" seemed like a humorous lie, until the Python Cookbook helped to put it in perspective.

After installing the Vim extension, a few choice keybindings can help VS Code play even nicer with your terminal muscle memory.

Use Python's "dis" module to see how Python evaluates two similar comparison operations.

A happier way to pull resource tags, using the unfortunately named Resource Groups Tagging API