I can’t seem to crack my obsession with Direct Digital Synthesis. I had to learn rather a lot about it as part of working on bFunc last year. Even though I’v... (more…)

Score a library of Python books from No Starch Press and support charity! (more…)

I tried writing games in Python a few years ago, but gave up as the only library at the time (Pygame) wasn't very good. Recently, I came back to Python and found there are now multiple gaming libraries. In this post, I look at PyGame, Arcade, PyGame Zero ... (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…)

I'm encountering a strange problem here. On my local homeserver(Debian 9.9), speedtest-cli and it's python pendant are freaking slow. Since I use it to monitor my ISP connection stability, this is a (more…)