The (almost) 10-year old 27" Thunderbolt display finally died.
Well, it didn't really die.
The Thunderbolt connector had gotten impossibly flaky. If I looked at it wrong, the monitor glitched or disonnected.
It was dead enough that I wasn't going to deal with it.
It involved this morass of adapters …
more ...I'm undecided if this goes into the next book. Maybe this is a teaser... And yes, this is a Python to the Rescue story.
I live on a boat. See Red Ranger Blog for details. What's essential is this little complication.
The South Gulf Cove Boat Lock.
The lock keeps …
more ...For social contact, I'm generally following people on https://fosstodon.org/home. I'm https://fosstodon.org/@slott56.
Or @slott56@fosstodon.org <https://fosstodon.org/@slott56> as they say in the Fediverse.
But I saw some stuff on Twitter that was disheartening.
more ...I thought Python🐍wasn't strongly typed.🤔 But this code …
See https://www.packtpub.com/product/functional-python-programming-third-edition/9781803232577
Much newness here.
https://books.apple.com/us/book/pivot-to-python/id1586977675
I've recently updated this to fix some cosmetic problems with title pages, the table of contents and …
Behave fixtures totally rock for testing complex applications.
I had been doing them wrong. Doing them right is simpler.
I'm a fan of the Gherkin language for specifying the behavior of software.
Scenario: Works for Me Given a configuration When a request is made Then the response can …
As noted in Finished Moving: Lessons Learned link rot is real.
Links vanish.
I've got 23 ancient (2004 to 2006, ancient) posts with clearly broken links. These are easy to identify because the service vanished years ago.
The tricky part is figuring out of there's any content worth preserving. In …
more ...Moved everything from blogger.com to "here" (https://slott56.github.io).
What did I learn?
Back in the early '00's (up to …
Check out DZone's Coding zone: https://dzone.com/coding. Hover over the "Coding" drop-down menu.
Notice anything lacking?
I'll give you a hint: Python.
They have "Frameworks", "Java", "Javascript", "Languages" and "Tools".
The "Languages" seems to be general programming, and the posts include Java, JavaScript and numerous other languages.
Let's …
more ...https://books.apple.com/us/book/pivot-to-python/id1586977675
I've recently updated this to fix some cosmetic problems with title pages, the table of contents and stuff like that. The content hasn't changed. Yet. It's still an introduction to …
Some background: FAERIE DUST™, Obstinate Idiocy, Obstinate Idiocy, Expanded, and even Permutations, Combinations and Frustrations. I want to set up algorithm design as the diametric opposite of Obstinate Stupidity. To do that, let's look at Obstinate Stupidity.
The theme?
We did something wrong, and we don't want to fix it …more ...