Massively increase your productivity on personal projects with comprehensive documentation and automated tests

My blog now has a detailed annotated version of this talk.

Slides on Speaker Deck

Talk video on YouTube

Supporting links for my talk at DjangoCon 2022.

• The Perfect Commit is my write-up of one of the core ideas from this talk.
• My PyPI profile (185 projects and counting)
• Series of posts on My open source process
• An example of what I consider a perfect commit: datasette ddc999ad12
• My cookiecutter templates:
  • simonw/python-lib
  • simonw/click-app
  • simonw/datasette-plugin
• Dynamic content for GitHub repository templates using cookiecutter and GitHub Actions explains how my template repository hack works.
• Documentation unit tests
  • Here are those tests for Datasette
• Example issue thread: #1809: prepare_jinja2_environment() hook should take datasette argument
• Research issue examples:
  • Figure out how to deploy Datasette to AWS Lambda using function URLs and Mangum research
  • Figure out how to serve an AWS Lambda function with a Function URL from a custom subdomain research
• My notes on writing better release notes