Time zones can be tricky beasts, particularly where daylight savings time is concerned. This post discusses issues around apply them to something like the ubiquitous Unix cron daemon.

There are few technical topics about which there’s more FUD than picking a strong password.

I recently had to do a few not-quite-trivial things with the Jinja2 templating engine, and the more I use it the more I like it.

Github’s web hooks make it surprisingly easy to write commit triggers.

Python’s behaviour with regards to destructors can be a little surprising in some cases.

Python’s simple scoping rules occasionally hide some surprising behaviour.

It’s possible to manage multiple subprocesses in Python, but there are a few gotchas.