I have a bit of a love and hate relationship with bash. I spend a lot of time in the terminal, and bash is my default "programming language". Sometimes I tell people that find, grep and xargs run their infrastructure, and they laugh and laugh until they r... (more…)

With CPU core counts on the rise, Python developers and data scientists often struggle to take advantage of all of the computing power available to th … (more…)

I find blockchain fascinating because it extends open source software development to open source + state. This seems to be a genuine/exciting innovation in computing paradigms; We don’t just get to share code, we get to share a running computer, and anyon... (more…)

Python character encoding detector. Contribute to chardet/chardet development by creating an account on GitHub. (more…)

How a Python function relates to a two thousand year old debate in philosophy... (more…)