Time pressures encourage programmers to write code that works well for a narrow purpose, with no room to grow. But the best systems are evolvable; they can b...

A little birdie told me that my upcoming book, Python Distilled, is included in this. informit.com/python-distill… twitter.com/InformIT/statu…

The classic operating system turns 40, and its progeny abound

Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs)

More routines for operating on iterables, beyond itertools - more-itertools/more-itertools

Python 3.11 has been released—when should you switch to using it?

Important, Read This First You’re about to read a blog post with a lot of advice. Learning from those who came before us is instrumental to success, but we often forget an important caveat. Almost all advice is contextual, yet it is rarely delivered with…

As you probably know, the GIL stands for the Global Interpreter Lock, and its job is to make the CPython interpreter thread-safe. The GIL allows...

A configuration architecture for the working dev.

STUPID is an acronym that describes bad practices in Oriented Object Programming. SOLID is an acronym that stands for five basic principle of Object-Oriented Programming and design to fix STUPID code.

What’s behind the Spotify Algorithm? From NLP over content based filtering to collaborative filtering.

A different spin on dataclasses. Contribute to dabeaz/dataklasses development by creating an account on GitHub.

Nicholas Matsakis is a Senior Staff Researcher at Mozilla Research and a member of the Rust core, compiler, and language design teams. He has been working on Rust since 2011 and did much of the initial work on its type system and other core features. He did…