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Re: Good Test, Bad Test

Jason Curtis — Tue, 05 May 2015 12:04:55 -0000

+1 - the fact that the AssertionError in the article is unhelpful sounds like more of a problem with the tooling than with the test. Writing or finding an assertDictEqual function that is more helpful is trivial and avoids unnecessary overhead of writing a bunch of individual test cases where a single one would be just as helpful.

Re: Heating my van (the proper way). Here’s how I installed a Propex heater

Jason Curtis — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 22:07:38 -0000

Thanks for the writeup - I'm installing my propex this week!
Can you provide more detail about the manifold and how you connected the 1/4" copper pipe to it, and how that connects to your (presumably 20lb) propane tank? What are the exact fittings you use and their names? You show the copper pipe under the van and then a different tube magically going to the manifold - mysterious! I'm having trouble figuring out those last details of my setup so it'd be great to have some more info there.

Re: Super charging Django settings with pydantic

Jason Curtis — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 12:17:11 -0000

Once this is set up, do you still access your settings with from django.conf import settings? If so, does the type checker know what the members of settings are? If you access settings.STRYP_CLYENT_ID will you get a type warning?

Re: Streamline Your Django Settings With Type Hints: A Pydantic Tutorial, Part 1

Jason Curtis — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 12:18:43 -0000

what about on the consumer side? When you need to access settings.SOMEHTING do you get a type-checker warning if you spelled it wrong?