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 Here's a historical reference: http://wiki.c2.com/?PyLit It was Python 2.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 …

Had a question about an enumerated set of constant values. "Where do I put these constants?" they asked. It was clear what they wanted. This is another variation on their personal quest which can be called "I want Python to have CONST or Final." It's kind of tedious when a …