I’ve often pondered this great and terrible beast – rsync. It’s spiny, nearly impenetrable command-line interface. Its majestic and wonderful efficiency. The depths of its man page, and the heights of its use-cases. (more…)

Let's pretend we need to build a recommendation engine for an eCommerce web site. There are basically two approaches you can take: content-based and collaborative-filtering. We'll look at some ... (more…)

PyScript is a framework that allows users to create Python applications in the browser using HTML. In this video we have a look at it and I show you how it w... (more…)

In this article I will provide a glimpse of how to setup a high performance and simple web sockets backend server to use with your Python… (more…)

In my latest book, Fast Python, I bust a lot of speed myths in Python. Some of the most basic advice people give about optimizing Python code is wrong, likely because no one ever bothered to test it. In this book, I go back to the basics and verify (or bu... (more…)