Author F. L. Stevens has a hellishly complex (and irregular) spreadsheet with agents, agencies, and query status. (This is how fiction gets marketed: querying agents.) The spreadsheet has become unmanageably complex, with multiple pages. Each page has multiple tables. Buried in this are three "interesting" tables with agent query information …

I can't emphasize this enough.

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think

“I know, I'll use a spreadsheet.” Now they have two problems.

(This was originally about regular expressions. And AWK. See http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247)

Fiction writer F. L. Stevens got a list of literary agents …

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See Building Skills in Object-Oriented Design for the old content, which has a number of features that hold up well over time.

1. A graduated series of exercises to build up large, complete applications is important.
2. It covers a lot of skills essential to building real applications -- unit testing, integration, code …

For a training class, I needed to address The Windows Problem™. TWP is the my summary of all the non-standard features of Windows in its various inconsistent incarnations.

Any training class that involves "install Python" inevitably involves at least one Windows user who can't get their PATH set correctly. It's …

The book https://www.packtpub.com/programming/mastering-object-oriented-python-second-edition

Some new chapters.

Type hints almost everywhere.

The examples https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Mastering-Object-Oriented-Python-Second-Edition

If you want to write a review, DM me on twitter @s_lott I can add you to the list for freebies in exchange for a review.

The list: https://dbader.org/blog/ultimate-list-of-python-podcasts. For the last 3 years, I've been doing a weekly webinar on Python -- at work. I've done about a 100 of them, and they've had a pretty good response. Each one was live and I didn't try to record them. There's enough going …

See this https://www.humblebundle.com

This is amazing to me.

Humble Bundle sells games, ebooks, software, and other digital content. Our mission is to support charity while providing awesome content to customers at great prices. We launched in 2010 with a single two-week Humble Indie Bundle, but we have …

Let me start my review with "wow!"

Python 3.6 on the iPad. Works. Nicely. Easy to use. Reliable. Rock-Solid.

I'm not switching to iPad as my primary platform any time in the near future. But. For certain kinds of small and tightly focused hackery, this is really nice.

I …

PyCon 2018 Swag included a Gemma m0. (https://www.adafruit.com/product/3501)

PyCon 2019 Swag included a Circuit Playground Express. See https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-circuit-playground-express/circuitpython-quickstart.

Both of these are (to me) amazing. They mount as USB devices; there’s a code.py file that’s automatically run …