Developer environments from behind a veil of ignorance
In A Theory of Justice, the moral philosopher John Rawls proposed a theory that some issues should be decided from behind a "veil of ignorance". From behind this veil, a person knows the consequences of an action, but does not know how they personally might be affected. Rawles argued that actions taken from behind this veil are just.
For Madpy this month, I will propose a theory of just python environments.
My plan is to show how I setup a clean install of a MacBook Pro for python
development, and talk about my "lessons learned" with various tools. I will do
my best to defend my decisions to use brew, pyenv, pipenv, and pytest,
but I'm sure there will be a healthy discussion! For the demo, I'll complete
one of the test-driven development exercises I've been doing at work.