A fun small project I worked on earlier this year was creating an HTTPS Everywhere custom ruleset channel for the SecureDrop project. HTTPS Everywhere is a popular browser extension maintained by EFF ...

Earlier this year at USENIX Enigma, I presented some recent work towards rearchitecting the SecureDrop journalist experience.

A queue retrives items in FIFO (first in, first out) order. A priority queue retrieves item based on _priority_, higher priority items come first. Well, what happens if you submit items that have equa...

When testing codepaths that generate images, one might want to ensure that the generated image is what is expected. Matplotlib has a nice decorator @image_comparison that can be applied for this purpo...

I've noticed a common area of misunderstanding for people newer to Python testing is _how_ to apply mock.patch and _where_ to patch (i.e. what the target positional argument to unittest.mock.patch sho...