Software, Geekery and other miscellany
In the previous post, I mentioned how NeoVim can be configured to be more like an IDE. This means features like autocomplete and so on. Let us take a look at some tools which we can interface with NeoVim.
Regular Vim always had support for these to some …
Every conference / unconference should have a rule like this.
The author of the rule, Eric Holscher, has a few more rules that unconference organisers will find helpful.
Was browsing through some old bookmarks and came across my Django screencast tutorials that I did for the site ShowMeDo way back in July 2007. These were some of the first video tutorials for Django and got a huge number of views. Crazy to think that it's been 15 years …
Have you been wanting to explore functional programming style in #python, but never got around to it?
Our Playful Python team created a playground for you using the newly added python support on Code Sandbox. Five hundred and twenty nine people have played around with it so far.
This example …
Which programming language are you are most interested in learning, but you never got around to doing so?
For me, Haskell was that language for a long time. Mainly to understand a pure functional programming paradigm.
I managed to spend quite a bit of time learning Haskell over the last …
The State of Javascript 2022 survey results are out. Never thought I'd say this given how unstable the JS ecosystem is, but things are only getting wilder.
At one point we just had to track React, maybe Vue and Angular to a lesser extent. Then we got Svelte, followed by …
As we come to the end of 2022 it's time to look back at the year. This was a very productive year for me as I completed a few projects that I had on my list:
✅ Started a tech blog again with Playful Python. There are a gazillion sites that …
This blog is now live and it's come a full circle. My first blog was started in 2000. It was a static site made from HTML. After that I started blogging on various platforms, mainly Blogger but also a few others. For a six year period between 2007-2013 I ran …
Today, a new commit was made to the Python tzdata package. What package is this and what was the change? Here is the story.
Python's tzdata module contains the timezone database which has all the different the timezones for each region as well as information on the start and end …