As part of your code, you may be inclined to call a command to do something. But is it always a good idea? How to do it safely? What happens behind the scenes?

Gynvael Coldwind jest badaczem bezpieczeństwa pracującym w Google, który organizuje cotygodniowe livestreamy na tematy bezpieczeństwa i programowania po polsku i po angielsku). Częścią streamów są misje — w skrócie, zadania w stylu CTF-owym dotyczące inżynierii wstecznej. Wczorajsza misja była o elfickim — znaczy o Paint’cie — znaczy o programowaniu w Pythonie i jego bajtkodzie.

You might get unusual errors about Unicode and inability to convert to ASCII. Programs might just crash at random. Those are often simple to fix — all you need is correct locale configuration.

To create a project that other people can use and contribute to, you need to follow a specific directory structure. Moreover, releasing a new version should be as simple and painless as possible. For my projects, I use a template that has the structure already in place, and comes with automation for almost every part of a release.

I spent Saturday on rewriting a Flask app in Django. The app in question was Nikola Users, which is a very simple CRUD app. And yet, the Flask code was a mess, full of bugs and vulnerabilities. Eight hours later, I had a fully functional Django app that did more and fixed all problems.

pass to standardowy Uniksowy manager haseł. A ja właśnie stworzyłem odrobinę przyjaźniejszy, klikalniejszy interfejs przy użyciu biblioteki urwid w Pythonie.