Busy week, but I have a quick edge case to share:

We've upgraded to a newer version of Python for our microservices at work. While making the transition, I bumped into an error sending http requests through urllib3:

SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED

I've come across this issue before, having to manually add certs. The solution involved low level work and was gnarly to handle! Thankfully, though, with Python 3.6 and higher, the solution is more straightforward.

It's largely outlined in this Stack Overflow post by Craig Glennie. The gist is that on Mac, you actually have to run a post install script located in your Applications/Python folder.

If you follow along with Craig's post, you'll find that the documentation for it is even there in the Python README. Always good to read the manual!

Listened exclusively to early Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings of Louis Armstrong the other week. Nothing better to brighten your mood!

Listen on Youtube

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The most beautiful time... Oh, and today is Lucy's birthday!!

We're doing a lot of migration from one repo to another at work. And it's easy to mix up which-window-is-which when looking at two files that are so similar!

Enter custom Title Bar Colors! Not only does doing this look cool, it's actually incredibly practical!

I first came across this in Wes Bos' Advanced React course, and it's sucinclty covered on Zachary Minner's blog: How to set title bar color in VS Code per project. So I'll let you link-hop over there!

If you don't want to pick your colors, looks like there's even a VS Code plugin that will do this automatically for you! (Thank you Stack Overflow!)