"Users of an old version of the popular Python language face a reckoning at the end of the year," reports Wired, calling it a programmer's "own version of update hell."... (more…)

puck - Checks Python projects for outdated dependencies... (more…)

A deep dive into Python attribute access and the descriptor protocol. (more…)

This week, Twitter upped their single-tweet character limit from 140 to 280, purportedly based on this interesting analysis of tweet lengths published on Twitter's engineering blog. The gist of the analysis is this: English language tweets display a rough... (more…)

This occasionally comes up during coding interviews and is actually quite a decent way to test someone’s aptitude of moving back and forth on a string to determine if and where palindromes exist. If we simply said: “return a boolean if a string is a palin... (more…)