bump utils

also remove the `read().splitlines()` pattern from csv.reader usage,
as it's redundant. also add .vscode to gitignore to accomodate my
hipster IDE choices, and add some lines to pytest.ini so just running
`py.test` uses some useful flags

pytest.ini

@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@ env =
     LOADTESTING_API_KEY=loadtesting
     FIRETEXT_API_KEY=Firetext
     NOTIFICATION_QUEUE_PREFIX=testing
+addopts = -n 4 -v -p no:warnings