The requests library is a very popular one for Python, when dealing with sending HTTP requests. No wonder, it’s simple and yet gives a lot of options when You really need them. There are however some popular misusages, that lead into unexpected trouble. Believe me, I’ve been there.

Recently I came across a problem of testing a Linux box from the outside - basically orchestrating the instance using scripts and checking if they work correctly.

Some aliases for $HOME/.gitconfig to make your work easier:

[alias]
    unstage = reset HEAD
    discard = checkout --
    co = checkout
    cma = commit -a -m
    dc = diff --cached

If You need to add a new volume to an AWS Instance and You happen to be using CloudFormation then this should do the trick.

Python allows one to write really concise code, which does some pretty nice input processing. It’s expressiveness is something that sets it apart from some other languages, especially for some obvious transformations. Here’s a few I came up with. Please do comment if You have something interesting or a shorter solution :) I’d love to give it a look. Here’s a few of mine.