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Google AppEngine URLFetch in Unit Tests

Started using Google AppEngine for a personal project of mine some time ago, and noticed that like everywhere else in python, the state of testing (tdd) is really poor. There are several “solutions” that provide stubs that can be used in unit testing Google AppEngine applications, including something called a “testbed” which is part of [...]


GMail is broken

What happened to GMail lately? It steals focus! Contacts don’t work most of the time! Mail is often not sent because the button pushing has no effect. Is this GMail 2.0? Fuck 2.0, I want the working GMail back! And stop it from stealing focus to it’s own tab, that is SO annoying.


Invite the world to GMail

The other day I noticed that I have this “Invite a friend” on my GMail. I didn’t use that thing for more than a year, so I took the chance of this re-discovery to get rid of it. Within several minutes I sent 98 invitations to an imaginary friend whose mail bounced at some noreply@somewhere… [...]