Luke Plant
@spookylukey
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Christian, husband, father. Interests in web dev (full stack), Django, Python, and learning new languages.
United Kingdom
Joined October 2008
New blog post: Statically checking Python dicts for completeness
lukeplant.me.uk
A Pythonic way to ensure that your statically-defined dicts are complete, with full source code.
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RT @glenscrivener: Twice this week our parliament has tried to alleviate burdens — at the beginning and end of life. But we’re not meant….
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"idiots" is giving them too much credit. It's like John Cleese said: "decisions are made by persons whose main concern is not losing their jobs. That's why they're so cowardly and gutless and contemptible.".
It was never complex. You and your legal advisors are just idiots.
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RT @DrPJWilliams: Nice to be quoted by Lord Frost in today’s Telegraph. But the quotation is significant. Tiberius has lots of coins and i….
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PyPI seems to be down for some packages, seeing errors since an hour ago -
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RT @Beanie0597: Me: we need to get tech out of the classrooms. Schools: we can't because we're already too invested in it. Me: C.S. Lewis….
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RT @mitsuhiko: Yesterday I talked with @cleptric and a few others at Sentry about ugly code and Flickr's Flamework. It is one of my inspira….
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RT @EvangelicalsNow: @glenscrivener outlines 6 reasons why putting Jesus at the heart of our evangelism is 'liberating'. @SpeakLifeUK.@EAU….
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The heart and soul of evangelism is lifting up Jesus as Lord. As I said last month: ‘Jesus is Lord’ represents bullseye. This is what we aim to communicate. And when our friend receives this message,...
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RT @willmcgugan: OpenAI are upset that somebody is using their work for financial gain, without payment or attribution. Nothing ironic ther….
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ChatGPT maker says it will need extra protection from US government, following emergence of Chinese rival, DeepSeek.
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Without looking up the docs, spot the non-obvious bug in my blog post date format that will only happen a few days a year: `MMMM d, YYYY HH:mm`.
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New blog post with video - Recursive project search in Emacs:
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RT @SpeakLifeUK: "I thought, 'My baby has Down syndrome', it's such a disaster!". "That was before she taught me.". WATCH the most heartwar….
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RT @JonHaidt: My 2022 "Uniquely Stupid" article is back on @TheAtlantic's most popular list. It's about how morally homogeneous institution….
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It’s not just a phase.
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RT @pydanny: Today's TIL has been a huge productivity boost for me.
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Once I've isolated a test failure to a very small set of failures I use this instead of running pytest directly. What it does on exception is start the IPython pdb interface.
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RT @paulg: If you haven't decided yet who to vote for, here's why I think you should vote for Harris.
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Me: “Cycling for transport is the way forward folks, you get to exercise at the same time!”.Also me: chooses route with utmost care to ensure absolute minimum exercise.
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RT @glenscrivener: “Have you considered killing yourself—we could help?” is a door to a very different moral universe. Here’s Canada….
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RT @benwansell: I cannot get over the British public thinking that MP’s expenses and payments to asylum seekers cost more than <checks note….
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