Well-designed PostgreSQL queries can replace many lines of Python code, enabling faster, more efficient development. (more…)

Python is slow, and compiled languages like Rust, C, or C++ are fast. So when your application is too slow, rewriting some of your code in a compiled extension can seem like the natural approach to speeding things up. Unfortunately, compiled extensions ar... (more…)

I recently finished teaching an introductory Python course as part of the Youth Remote Learning project. The intended audience was 6th-8th graders and consisted of 6 classes, each lasting 30 minutes. (more…)

I’m probably going to have to eat this blog post 2 years from now…. oh well. I still believe that Async has been mostly a failure since introduced in Python 3.4. Maybe I should be more specific, there seems to be a failure to adopt Async in the Python com... (more…)

I really enjoyed Jean-Nicholas Hould’s article on Tidy Data in Python, which in turn is based on this paper on Tidy Data by Hadley Wickham…...