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Thumb Chords

I have been experimenting with a pattern I call Thumb Chord that consists of pressing a thumb key (the space-bar on a standard keyboard) and a home row key (A to ; on an QWERTY keyboard) simultaneously to form a chord which outputs a modifier, like shift or control. Here is a minimal layout definition, based on keyd's configuration format, to illustrate the pattern: [ids] * [main] d+space = oneshot(shift) k+space = oneshot(shift) When combined with the one-shot modifiers pattern, tapping the

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How to Collect Product Data from a Website with Python

In this guide, you will learn how to write a Python script that visits a website, grabs product names and prices, and saves everything into a spreadsheet file. No experience needed — we explain every step. You can find the complete source code for this project in this GitHub repository. Python 3 installed on your computer (download here) A code editor — VS Code works great (download here) Your terminal (the black window where you type commands) A basic understanding of Python (variables and for

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I turned plain English (and any live website) into API tests

Hi 👋 This is my first post here, and I want to share a side project I built as a QA engineer — because it scratches an itch I think a lot of us have. Here's the itch: for one business flow, I'd end up building the same thing three times — a Postman collection, a Playwright API test, and a JMeter plan. Same requests, same variables, same assertions, just typed out three different ways. It's slow, it's boring, and the three copies drift apart the moment anything changes. So I built TestFlow Agent

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Proving Zero Trust Actually Works: Entra ID + Cloudflare Access over Both OIDC and SAML

Most Zero Trust write-ups stop at "user signs in, user gets access." That's not I built a small, fully Terraform-managed demo to make those failure modes Everything is provisioned by Terraform: the Entra app registrations, the demo make apply and it's all live. Entra is registered with Cloudflare twice. Once through the native azureAD user Entra groups echo-basic echo-secure echo-saml alice engineering, oncall, finance yes yes yes carol engineering yes no no bob contractors no no no

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idemkit: make any Python operation safe to retry (HTTP, queues, functions)

A few years ago, I spent about a month cleaning up duplicate charges. Every service involved already had idempotency "handled": the client sends an Idempotency-Key header, we store the response under it, and if the key comes back we replay the stored response. Textbook. And it still double-charged people. What finally clicked for me is that the key is just a name for the request. It doesn't do anything on its own. Whatever safety you have comes from the code around it, and that code is a small d

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