Tuesday, 22nd May 2018
Observable: Downloading and Embedding Notebooks (via) Big news from the Observable team: firstly, they’ve released the open source runtime for their notebooks which means you can now execute the code from a notebook independently of their hosted service. On top of that they’ve constructed an elegant way of exporting and executing notebooks (or specific notebook cells) as ES6 modules and as installable npm package tarballs.
Google is not trying to break the web by pushing for more HTTPS. Neither is Mozilla and neither are any of the other orgs saying "Hey, it would be good if traffic wasn't eavesdropped on or modified". This is fixing a deficiency in the web as it has stood for years.
Hynek Schlawack: Testing & Packaging (via) “How to ensure that your tests run code that you think they are running, and how to measure your coverage over multiple tox runs (in parallel!)”—Hynek makes a convincing argument for putting your packaged Python code in a src/ directory for ease of testing and coverage.