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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 …

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 …

So far, if you wanted to do web development, there was only one choice - Javascript. But that changed last week. Well, at least in a small way. The hot news of the day was Anaconda announcing PyScript -- python on the browser with no install required. That's right, users just have …

All programmers are familiar with the common data types found in many languages like integers, strings, floats and so on. After we learn about them, we go about our work, using those data types in our code. But have you ever thought about defining your own data types?

You get better just at programming just like how you get better at anything else -- by practicing. The question is: how to practice in an effective way?

There are two ways to practice of any skill. One is practicing individual techniques, the second way is to practice putting it all …

Conflict. It's that word again. We have all faced it and most of us would rather not discuss it, but sooner or later you will be faced with such a situation and it's helpful to be able to understand it. In this article, I will discuss what I understand by …

Based on my experiences, my list would go like this -

Have empathy. This is the most important. Learn continuously. This is the second most important. Apart from these, you need

• Understanding of the organization and its culture
• Understanding of the team and its dynamics
• Understanding of the people on the …

This article used to be 6 part series of articles on recursion that I had on my old blog. I have combined the series into a single article and posted it here. This article is still dated for the 12th of April, 2008, which is when I originally posted this …

Yesterday I had blogged about the books I couldnt find in Bangalore (Programming Pearls and The Practise of Programming). Today I'm going to blog about one of the books I did find (the rest will be in subsequent posts).

That book is "How to Design Programs" from MIT Press. I …