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I am a big fan of Dave Whyte’s vector animations, like this one: It was generated using a special animation language called Processing (here is Dave … (more…)

Jukka Lehtosalo is a Finnish Software Engineer at Dropbox. He developed an optional type system for Python, mypy, during his PhD thesis in Cambridge. After meeting in a Python conference, Guido van… (more…)