PyConUK 2016 was in Cardiff this year, from Thursday the 15th of September through to Monday the 19th. I was very much looking forward to attending: I've been a few times before and it is always friendly, diverse, and full of interesting topics and people and my brain was deeply …

Someone recently pointed out Working remotely, a set of ideas from someone who works at Hypothesis where remote working is the norm. The first idea is Read, write everything down, repeat.

It reminds me of two things:

• The single most cogent piece of advice I've ever seen on how to …

When evaluating APIs (HTTP and otherwise) I am predisposed to simplicity and comprehensibility in implementation and use. That means the interface should:

• have a limited number of resources
• have simple representations of those resources with minimal dimensions (variables)
  • thus a correspondingly limited number of operations that can be performed across …

One of the changes in progress to improve the scheduler or placement engine in Nova is something called generic resource pools. These are a way of representing an entity which can provide inventories of one or more class of resources (things like virtual cpus, disk, networks).

I was in the …