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!...

Ever since Sonnet 3.7 came out, I have no doubt that the software engineer job (and thus, the job market) will change. I sincerely believe that in two years...

There are two reasons why python is 'bad'. First, it is not statically typed like C. Second, it is not as fast as C...

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...

No spoilers here ;-)