There are two kinds of programmers, generally speaking. There are programmers who care more about code, and there are programmers who care more about product. The former – I’ll call them “code-first”
Most of us have heard of role-based access control (RBAC) and itsslightly updated successor, attribute-based access control (ABAC). Butwe don’t always appreciate all the great ideas they contain. The
UPDATE . It’s 2023 and although I still broadly agree with the content of this article, I don’t like the style of it any more. I find it too abrasive and judgmental. I’m sorry about that. I leave this
When ‘Y Tu Mamá También’ Changed Everything The film, with its sexual openness, upended the lives of its filmmakers and stars. Twenty years later, they still feel the effects. Gael García Bernal, left
Take a Walk in the Woods. Doctor’s Orders. “Forest bathing,” or immersing yourself in nature, is being embraced by doctors and others as a way to combat stress and improve health. Credit... Andy Isaac
Get it? Quack quack quack quack Quack quack quack quack Weird Al Yancovic, “ I Want A New Duck ” Mypy makes most things better Mypy is a static type checker for Python. If you’re notalready familiar,
Never send a human to do a machine’s job. One of the best things about maintaining open source in the modern era is thatthere are so many wonderful, free tools to let machines take care of thebusy-wor
There should be one — and preferably only one — obvious way to do it. Tim Peters, “The Zen of Python” Moshe wrote a blog post a couple of daysago which neatly constructs a wonderfullittle coding examp
Prompted by Amber Brown’s presentation at the Python LanguageSummit last month, Christian Heimes has followed up on his own earlierwork on slimming down the Python standardlibrary, and created a prope
It happens all the time. You read an amazing book, one so packed with wisdom that you think it’s going to change your life forever. Then…it doesn’t. Why? Because when you’re finally in a situation whe
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