At age 30, the Python programming language has never been used by more developers across more use cases than it is today. (more…)

Distinguish IO-bound and CPU-bound applications in Python to write code that runs faster... (more…)

Back in 2008 Natalie Downe and I deployed what today we would call a microservice: json-head, a tiny Google App Engine app that allowed you to make an HTTP head ... (more…)

“Python is about having the simplest, dumbest compiler imaginable.” —Guido van Rossum, Masterminds of Programming... (more…)

Read online: Chapter 1 - Making Paper Cryptography Tools...