Interesting data structures with O(n) performance. This can help to unscramble O(n²) problems allowing progress. https://pdsa.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

Pretty funny: https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws

There are some things I could say.

But.

You can come to understand it yourself, also.

Go here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxs2IIVXaEHHA4BtTiWZ2mQ

Start with the keynotes. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxs2IIVXaEHHA4BtTiWZ2mQ/search?query=keynote

For me, one of the top presentations was this https://www.youtube.com …

See http://flstevens.itmaybeahack.com/writing-world-building-and/ for some back-story on F. L. Stevens and the need to write a *lot* of query letters to agents for fiction. (The non-fiction industry is entirely different; there are acquisition editors who look for technical contributors.)

There's a tiny possibility of a Query Manager …

The PyLit tool dates from 2009. Here's a historical reference: http://wiki.c2.com/?PyLit It was Python 2. It had some minor problems. I forked it and cleaned it up for Python 3. Then I set it aside for a few years (six or so.) Dusting it off. Rearranging …

Two and a half examples of "Don't solve the problem I described. Provide the implementation I dream about."

Got this in an email.

"Python's multi-threading module seems not efficient because of the global interpreter lock?"

Yep.

Is the trick is to use "Thread-Local Data"?

Nope.

https://sobolevn.me/2019/02/python-exceptions-considered-an-antipattern While eloquent and thorough, I remain unconvinced that this is a significant improvement over try/except. It's common enough in some functional languages to have strong support and a long, successful history. I think it replaces one problem with another. It's not a "solution …