History NIPO has been developing ODIN Script for over 40 years, including the parser that parses the script into quickcode. Quickcode is a binary format that is used by the Engine to run interview...

I keep hearing good things about Playwright, and get a bit frustrated with the hacking around with WebDriver having to wait for things to be visible, scrolling to elements, etc. So I decided to see...

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Storing times for human events Interesting idea that actually makes sense - don’t store user events in UTC. Instead store the user’s intent time and the location/timezone. Circumventing Python’s ...

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Conveying Context with AsyncLocal AsyncLocal Represents ambient data that is local to a given asynchronous control flow, such as an asynchronous method. It’s a static class that allows you t...