Brian Allbee

@BrianAllbee
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Komencanto kun #Esperanto (Dankon, #Duolingo). Mastodon newbie (despite having had an account for several years). #Python wonk. #TTRPG afficionado, particularly #FateSRD.

Protest is not illegal. Protesters are not illegals.

[Source: U.S. Constitution]

In a startling display of irony, Trump/Musk supporters now have to choose between their two daddies, who are going through a difficult breakup. During Pride Month, no less!

#USPol #Musk #Trump #politics

While trudging through my day-to-day activities, I had an inspiration about how to implement local #API access for #AWS #APIGateway code using #Python #LambdaFunctions for back-end logic, by overriding #FastAPI and #Flask #decorators.

https://goblinfish-code.blogspot.com/2025/06/local-aws-api-gateway-development-with.html

Local AWS API Gateway development with Python: Dissecting decorators

Yes, I'm still poking around at the goblinfish.testing.pact package in the background. It's going slowly, since I've been dea...

Busy day today, so I forgot to post about my latest blog article this morning.

Taking a closer look at the challenges involved with detecting and setting test-expectations for managed attributes (and their equivalents) in #Python classes.

https://goblinfish-code.blogspot.com/2025/05/first-thoughts-on-reworking-managed.html

First thoughts on reworking managed attribute test-expectations

When last I wrote about the goblinfish-testing-pact package , I had a checklist of things that I was going to pursue: ...

Some signs of #AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves - https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/opinion_column_ai_model_collapse/ "Prediction: General-purpose AI could start getting worse" indeed
Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves

Opinion: Prediction: General-purpose AI could start getting worse

The Register

Random observation as I'm letting #LOTR #FOTR play as background noise. I looked up just in time to see the fellowship start down the Moria stairs, fleeing the Balrog.

"Tolkein's Dwarves didn't have OSHA or building codes to worry about."

As it turns out, there were some fundamental problems with the testing-strategy I had in mind for testing the PACT processes. That is, problems with how I'd planned to implement those tests, not with which tests needed to be implemented (at least not yet). Those issues took a bit of thinking through, and there were some interesting results from related investigation.

#UnitTest #Python

https://goblinfish-code.blogspot.com/2025/05/when-not-to-mock-or-patch.html

When not to mock or patch

Despite taking a break from working on the unit test stubs for the goblinfish-testing-pact package , it hasn’t been far from my thoughts, f...

Amos & Avasarala

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This idea centers around making local development, testing, and debugging of #AWS #APIGateway efforts, backed by #LambdaFunctions, easier and faster than relying on tools like sam local.

While taking a break from my writing about unit-testing PACT package, I wanted to start writing about another idea that I had, that I'm going to write and package code for. The basic approach is to use one of the common #Python #API packages, like #Flask or #FastAPI as a local replacement for the API Gateway.

https://goblinfish-code.blogspot.com/2025/05/local-aws-api-gateway-development-with.html

Local AWS API Gateway development with Python

I’m going to take a break from writing posts about the goblinfish-testing-pact package for a bit — The work on it is still going on in th...