Software, Geekery and other miscellany
There are two ways of capturing information. I call them Essays and Notes.
Essays are long form articles, that cover a topic in enough detail that a person new to the topic can read from top to bottom to get an understanding of a topic.
Notes are short. A notes …
One critical skill that I have seen in great developers is double-loop learning.
What is double-loop learning?
Good developers are those who keep learning newer, better ways of solving problems. They upgrade their technical skills, learn the latest in the industry and solve problems in the smartest, most efficient way …
As I blogged about in the previous two articles, I recently updated my NeoVim configuration for the fourth time. Although it might sound like a lot of config updates, keep in mind that it happened over a period of four years.
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 …