Moshe Zadka

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Belmont, CA

Moshe has been involved in the Linux community since 1998, helping in Linux "installation parties". He has been programming Python since 1999, and has contributed to the core Python interpreter. Moshe has been a DevOps/SRE since before those terms existed, caring deeply about software reliability, build reproducibility and other such things. He has worked in companies as small as three people and as big as tens of thousands -- usually some place around where software meets system administration.

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Authored Content

PyLint: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Get the most out of PyLint.

How to write a web service using Python Flask

How to use modern Python packaging and setuptools plugins together

Using the setuptools plugin with modern Python packaging allows for experimentation with automation.

What is your favorite open source Java IDE?

Make a cup of coffee with Git

I created my own Git command to brew my morning coffee.

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How to use httpx, a web client for Python

The httpx package for Python is an excellent and flexible module for interacting with HTTP.

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My tips for maintaining dotfiles in source control

When you keep the environment in source control, development VMs and containers become a solution, not a problem.

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Customize your Bash prompt on Linux with Starship

Take control of your prompt, and have all the information you need at your fingertips.

Contributed Content

Our favorite Linux replacements for antiquated open source tools

We asked our community of contributors what open source tools they are using in place of those that feel outdated or antiquated.

How to use pyenv to run multiple versions of Python on a Mac

If you need to run a project that uses a Python version you don't have installed on macOS, try pyenv.

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Authored Cheat Sheets and Downloads

Watch command cheat sheet

By Moshe Zadka

Use the watch command to let you know when a task has been completed or a command has been executed. It's useful for many ad-hoc system administration tasks where you need to…

30 hidden gems in Python 3

By Moshe Zadka

Python 3 has been out since 2008, and it has had ten minor releases between 3.0 and 3.9. Each of those releases packed more features than most people know. Some of those are…

Guide: 6 surprising ways to use Jupyter

By Moshe Zadka

Jupyter offers interactive ways to write software with technology like JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebook. This software is commonly used for data analysis, but what you might…

Jinja2 Cheat Sheet

By Moshe Zadka

Jinja2 is a web framework and language-agnostic templating language for Python. For many Python projects in need of a template language, Jinja2's easy API and accessible…

pip cheat sheet

By Moshe Zadka

The pip packaging tool is used to interact with third-party Python packages. This cheat sheet covers the information you'll need to use pip efficiently, including: Terminology…