What do I know about "inspiration" at work? I'm not sure I know much, but I think I may have some advice that could be useful.

I was in the high-tech write-software-every-day workplace since about 1976 or so. (The first two years were part-time while in college.) I use past …

A fascinating question.

... I'm baffled by the amount of books you've published over the course of time. Currently Reddit suggests that I use Building Skills in Python under Beginner's section, but it looks quite outdated. So back and forth, I found your Building Skills in OO on GitHub Page and …

An interesting tweet. The roadmap has three sections. I'm not sure this is actually complete, or even grouped correctly. It is a very good list of topics.

https://twitter.com/prasoonpratham/status/1408435475426254849?s=11

"Here's a complete roadmap of topics to master Python."

The thread, however, seems no longer …

Happy birthday, mom. Glad to see you're still doing well, avoiding the complications of COVID-19.

You asked what it was I did for a living. Emphasis on the past tense, now that we're both fully retired old people.

I have to confess that it's not easy describing high-tech work. There's …

https://www.pythonpodcast.com/sqlfluff-sql-linter-episode-318/

See https://slott56.github.io/replacing-a-spreadsheet/. This document is really exciting (to me).

This is still shaky -- I'm still learning -- but it's a very cool combination of Python components sympy and Jupyter Lab. As a bonus, Jupyter{Book} appeals to me as a writer. There's an aspect of literate programing …

Let's talk about profound confusion.

I got an email with a subject of this, "Python's Protocol Reduces Reliance on Duck Typing". The resulting conversation led to this nugget: "... my current project could use protocols in Python, and thus I didn't need to rely on duck typing and instead could use …

I heard about these less than a week ago.

• https://openmarine.net/openplotter
• https://github.com/openplotter/pypilot
• https://signalk.org/installation.html

This is very interesting. Very interesting.

I have a partially complete IoT anchor alarm.

The idea of leveraging the boat's other devices through a Signal-K interface is …

See A 5-Point Framework For Python Performance Management.

It seems straight-forward to me. Have goals. Measure your ability to meet them.

I don't see too many teams doing this, though.

I could be wrong, but, I think performance is left to arguments and complaints, not solid engineering.

I get asked about good books for beginners. Here's an example:

"What Python books do you recommend for novices so they can learn from beginner to advanced?"

For me, this is nearly impossible to answer.

"Beginner" is often undefined. I have to turn this around and ask what you already …