I’ve found myself explaining Python 3’s str to people online more and more often lately. There’s this ridiculous claim about that Python 3’s string handling is broken or somehow worse than Python 2, and today I intend to put that myth to rest. Pyt...

Description of the bug NixOS/nixpkgs#210452 OpenSSL 1.1 is flagged as insecure and will be removed for the next stable NixOS release as it's EOL 09/2023. I'm using sublime-text4 as primary editor (... (more…)

Let’s learn art by transforming The Art Book into a spaced-repetition Anki Deck. Step 1: Download The Art Book Get the PDF of this book and save it as TheArtBook.pdf Step 2: Make an image of … (more…)

Snek is a cross-platform PowerShell module for working with Python. Pass objects between the two languages and use Python modules directly in your scripts. (more…)

Next time you're in your IPython console and you get an error somewhere deep in your stack, run %debug. It's a post-mortem debugger, and it'll drop you in an interpreter right where the error happened. You can inspect all the variables, go up and down the... (more…)