While this is a book on the Hy Lisp language, we have a wider theme here. In an age where artificial intelligence (AI) is a driver of the largest corporations and government agencies, the question is how do individuals and small organizations take advanta... (more…)

For more than a decade, ActiveState has hosted a vast repository of code recipes and discussions over at https://code.activestate.com/ - but in recent years it began to seem out-of-sync with the way developers shared code. New users and recipe updates had... (more…)

Web development with Python, Django, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Vue.js, and reluctantly Node + React. (more…)

A "fold" is a fundamental primitive in defining operations on data structures; it's particularly important in functional languages where recursion is the default tool to express repetition. In this article I'll present how left and right folds work and ho... (more…)

The debate around privacy and anonymity on the internet really grinds my gears, because tbh shouldn’t it be everyone’s basic right to make a script to vote 10,000 times from 10,000 diff… (more…)