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I’m a software developer from Graz, Austria , where I’m currently working for Grafana Labs on the Platform team. Previously, I had worked for Netconomy with on e-commerce solutions various frontend and backend technologies (too many to list here).

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No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me

For the last two years I’ve had an O’Reilly subscription . Their offer is quite attractive with unlimited access to books not only by O’Reilly but also Manning and others. The catalog is just enourmous and covers pretty much every technical book around software engineering et al. that I might ever want to read. There…

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New string formatting in Python

For a language that claims to focus on one right way to handle most situations, string formatting in Python is quite a buffet and it’s getting more diverse by the year. Starting with Python 3.6 we now have three ways to format strings (outside of simple concatinating things or using string.Template ):