PyCon US 2022 Highlights
It’s been three years since any of us have been able to attend PyCon in person. I had mixed feelings about attending this year because despite what most of us are being told officially, Covid isn’t over.
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Review: Are Prisons Obsolete?
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis In the US, many of us are brought up laughing at people who are stuck in prison.
Simplifying Django deployments on Heroku
What’s wrong with Heroku’s process? A simpler process Technical details Why focus on the buildpack? Current limitations Try it out Long term goals Feedback What’s wrong with Heroku’s process?
Exploring fractals on a cloud computer
I’ve always been curious about fractals, and the book I’m reading uses fractals in an example. I started playing with the example, and found it a good chance to see how much faster a powerful cloud computer can render a fractal than my modest laptop.
Cleaning up a messy, exploratory Python project
One of my current projects is in a state that many people will probably recognize: it’s a small project that grew through the exploratory phase, got really messy, but has now proven to be really useful.
What's faster than strptime()?
I was working on a longer post recently about optimizing a messy exploratory Python project, where the file I was focusing on took about 16 seconds to run.
Review: Serious Python
Serious reading at the driving range. I just finished reading Serious Python, by Julien Danjou. It was really satisfying to read a technical book cover to cover again, and it was also nice to read a technical book that didn’t require sitting in front of a laptop the whole time.
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About I grew up in Nashua, NH. Nashua feels like a suburb of Boston, but in the late 1970s and early 1980s I could hop on my bike with a friend and explore back roads through small towns for entire summer days.
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Python Crash Course Python Crash Course is really two books in one. The first half of the book teaches the basics of programming in Python, and the second half includes three in-depth projects.
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Currently Reading A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door, by Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire High Performance Python, by Micha Gorelick & Ian Ozsvald I really enjoyed Serious Python, and I’m looking forward to a more in-depth study of similar concepts.
Projects
When I was younger, all of my programming projects were just for fun. I wrote a number guessing game when I was really young, I wrote a program that graphed selected 3d functions without any third-party graphing libraries, and I played around very briefly with fractal generating algorithms.
Using Git for Technical Writing
I recently finished writing Python Crash Course, an introductory programming book. The first half of the book is an introduction to Python, and the second half is a set of projects that build on what was presented in the first half.
A sed one-liner, from my father
I have known about sed and awk for a long time now, but I haven’t used either of them much at all.
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