best think like grug

grug even have whole section just for refactor code

The best way to validate an email address is to sent it an email validation link.

Anything outside of that is a waste of effort.

Ha, great tip. I’ll keep an eye on it

It depends on the application.

I don’t remember all the specifics but this is the blog post I refer to when this topic comes up

https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a-silver-bullet/

The only time using UTC breaks down is when any sort of time change gets involved.

If I say I want a reminder at 9am six months from now and you store that as UTC, a day light savings change will mean I get my reminder an hour early or late depending on where in the world I am

Facebook doesn’t do anything that doesn’t make Facebook money so excuse my skepticism.

That’s pipenv. Pip just has the capability to read and write from a requirements.txt, which is a step that must be taken manually

People have already covered the great ones so I will mention one of the more obscure.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/don-t-fuck-with-paste/

input("question").lower().startswith("t") is my go to. More fault tolerant and gets the job done