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 …

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

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 Here's a historical reference: http://wiki.c2.com/?PyLit It was Python 2.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

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 …