Every year, I play Advent of Code, an advent calendar of coding puzzles by Eric Wastl. This year I wanted an extra challenge. I decided to spend hours writing horrible, unreadable, bodged-together code full of code smells, bad practices, and hacks. I decided to do Code Golf.
I have beefs with many conventional critiques of python. People complain about GIL, people say python is slow. Along these lines lies the 'match-case' pattern matching. I'll be clear: match-case is bad, don't use it.
You are a developer, and your team lead sucks at their job. If only you were a team lead, you would have done way better. Rejoice! For the time has come for you to prove yourself!...
There are two reasons why python is 'bad'. First, it is not statically typed like C. Second, it is not as fast as C...
We live in a world where “I need 2 weeks to do it” means “I can do it in 1 hour two weeks later”, and we accept it. ...
We can't productively do creative work for more than 4 hours a day. In 2014, I graduated from university and got a job at a biotech company, where I was doing data science and developing data pipelines for large biological data sequencing, specifically). There I learned a lot about the way I personally work...
Smartphones have stolen from us the time and the capacity to become BORED. And that’s a bad thing...
I started journaling in January 2022, and it is easily the best habit I have ever made. And the most surprising one. You should try it too! 😃...
The more I date an author, the more I realize how similar are founding a startup and writing a piece of fiction: 1. You have a wild idea of how to change the world. 2. Despite it being wild, many people had tried something similar before, unsuccessfully...
Raytracing in python - now with animation!
I read majestic Fabien Sanglard’s article about the “business card raytracer” a few years ago. These 1337 bytes of code would fit on a business card...
How to tell if your potential employer or business partner is great before signing a contract
The idea of living in a computer simulation is nice, but we are obviously just a lab experiment of 11D aliens 👽 Evidence...
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