Hi! I'm Menno Finlay-Smits. Welcome to my humble and irregularly updated place on the web.

• IMAPClient 3.0.0 is out October 29, 2023
  The first release to not support Python 2 (finally)
• pytest is Awesome August 29, 2023
  You should use it too (talk slides)
• All About (Python) Iteration May 07, 2023
  Iterators, iterables, generator functions, list expressions (talk slides)
• Storing & Exchanging Data with Python February 08, 2023
  Binary files, text files, mmap, pickles, JSON and much more
• Faster software through register based calling November 23, 2021
  Changes in function calling convention makes Go 1.17 faster
• New Features in Python 3.8 and 3.9 September 07, 2021
  The headline features in (then) recent versions of Python (talk slides)
• IMAPClient 2.2.0 January 16, 2021
• Better Emacs Config: use-package May 10, 2020
• My Python Toolbox October 30, 2019
• Python virtualenvs talk August 08, 2019
• Introduction to attrs November 25, 2018
• influx-spout 2.1 September 11, 2018
• IMAPClient 2.1.0 September 05, 2018
• Introducing influx-spout July 03, 2018
• Listing S3 objects with NodeJS June 26, 2018
• Never Write Shell Scripts Again May 14, 2018
• IMAPClient 2.0.0 January 13, 2018
• IMAPClient 1.1.0 November 23, 2017
• UC Data Science talk October 27, 2017
• Showing all Go compiler errors April 07, 2017
• Python async talk April 05, 2017
• IMAPClient has moved to Github August 29, 2016
• IMAPClient 1.0.2 August 22, 2016
• Nikola July 10, 2016
• IMAPClient mailing list moved to Groups.io June 07, 2016
• IMAPClient 1.0.0 November 24, 2015
• Search Changes in IMAPClient 1.0 September 15, 2015
• TLS Changes in IMAPClient 1.0 September 08, 2015
• IMAPClient 0.13 July 01, 2015
• IMAPClient 0.12 June 30, 2015
• IMAPClient introduction March 08, 2015
• IMAPClient now all at Bitbucket March 01, 2015
• Go for Pythonistas August 08, 2014
• IMAPClient 0.11 July 16, 2014
• Inbox is sponsoring IMAPClient development July 16, 2014
• IMAPClient 0.10 June 06, 2013
• Monitoring Audio Levels with PulseAudio May 08, 2013
• Raspberry Pi: driving a VU meter using a digital-to-analog converter May 08, 2013
• IMAPClient 0.9.2 March 29, 2013
• IMAPClient 0.9.1 November 13, 2012
• itertools.groupby November 05, 2012
• Tiling addiction October 02, 2012
• Somewhat over-engineered blinking LEDs July 21, 2012
• IMAPClient 0.9 released May 17, 2012
• Introducing elemental April 08, 2012
• IMAPClient 0.8.1 released January 12, 2012
• IMAPClient 0.8 released November 10, 2011
• Fibonacci Quilt March 13, 2011
• Domain renewal scam February 18, 2011
• IMAPClient 0.7 released February 10, 2011
• IMAPClient 0.6.2 is out September 18, 2010
• IMAPClient 0.6.1 released September 03, 2010
• IMAPClient 0.6 released May 12, 2010
• TypeError: object.__init__() takes no parameters January 31, 2010
• rst_break plugin for PyBlosxom January 31, 2010
• IMAPClient 0.5.2 January 25, 2010
• A little thing about cron January 13, 2010
• IMAPClient Trac instance now allows for user registrations December 27, 2009
• IMAPClient 0.5.1 December 16, 2009
• PyBlosxom to Disqus import script November 26, 2009
• Setting PYTHON_EGG_CACHE when deploying Python apps using FastCGI November 20, 2009
• Why I chose Disqus Comments November 06, 2009
• IMAPClient has a new home October 19, 2009
• Problem installing Trac under Lighttpd+FastCGI August 28, 2009
• Dear Bazaar... July 29, 2009
• Banishing trailing whitespace with Emacs July 03, 2009
• draftsdir plugin June 26, 2009
• Emacs with Viper mode: editor nirvana? June 23, 2009
• bzr repositories now available June 22, 2009
• Announcing IMAPClient 0.5 April 29, 2009
• Initial thoughts for PyCon 2009 March 28, 2009
• Upgrading iPhone firmware using VMWare on Linux January 01, 2009
• All contacts in sync (+1 for the iPhone) October 26, 2008
• freshfoo.com now using rest2web September 25, 2008
• Linux on the Sony Vaio VGN-BZ11 September 25, 2008
• markup.py September 18, 2008
• Slides online for Python on the Openmoko Neo Freerunner September 16, 2008
• PyCon UK 2008 August 29, 2008
• Neo Freerunner: first impressions July 30, 2008
• OpenMoko release June 27, 2008
• Catching Unhandled Exceptions in .NET May 23, 2008
• PyCon Italia presentation materials are online May 16, 2008
• PyCon Italia Due May 11, 2008
• Resolver One 1.0 Released January 19, 2008
• Announcing IMAPClient 0.4 January 12, 2008
• NYC Encounters January 12, 2008
• spamquestion 0.2 November 21, 2007
• Blog spam update November 06, 2007
• Comments renabled, announcing spamquestion November 01, 2007
• Spam: good news and bad news October 25, 2007
• Announcing IMAPClient 0.3 October 17, 2007
• FuzzyFinder October 12, 2007
• Converted to PyBlosxom September 16, 2007
• Introducing imapclient May 03, 2007
• Data on the rocks April 05, 2007
• cert2rss.py retired March 22, 2007
• ssh-agent-applet 0.1 February 14, 2007
• Found photos January 09, 2007
• Starting with Ruby January 06, 2007
• USB Sniffing / Optus 3G and Linux November 13, 2006
• HTTP Auth and Selenium November 07, 2006
• GStreamer and Python experimentation October 28, 2006
• Martini Design Patterns? October 21, 2006
• Scheming on the way to Oz October 20, 2006
• Planet London Python is online October 10, 2006
• Selenium at London 2.0 September 06, 2006
• Rockbox rocks July 21, 2006
• Met Office English June 15, 2006
• Kernel hacking, Software Suspend (Suspend2) and other coolness April 06, 2006
• Much Yum progress April 06, 2006
• Yum plugins? April 06, 2006