Sunday, 24th April 2022
Useful tricks with pip install URL and GitHub
The pip install command can accept a URL to a zip file or tarball. GitHub provides URLs that can create a zip file of any branch, tag or commit in any repository. Combining these is a really useful trick for maintaining Python packages.
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Format code examples in documentation with blacken-docs
— I decided to enforce that all code examples in the [Datasette documentation](https://docs.datasette.io/) be formatted using [Black](https://github.com/psf/black). Here's [issue 1718](https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1718) where I researched the options for doing this.
WebAIM guide to using iOS VoiceOver to evaluate web accessibility (via) I asked for pointers on learning to use VoiceOver on my iPhone for accessibility testing today and Matt Hobbs pointed me to this tutorial from the WebAIM group at Utah State University.