After a gut-wrenching end to Chapter 4, we left Kris debating whether to follow Susie out into the night, or keep their ...

Connect all your configuration files and autogenerate code—Jsonnet is the missing piece for large code bases.

Generators in Python. You might not have many opportunities to use them if you're just writing simple scripts, but knowing how to use them is convenient when handling large amounts of data. So, I've ...

I find it convenient to use a "skeleton liner" that copies and compares text using Python's "difflib". For comparing files, "vimdiff" is useful. However, there are things about "vimdiff" that I find ...

If you’re new to Python, one of the first things you’ll encounter is variables and data types. Understanding how Python handles data is essential for writing clean, efficient, and bug-free programs.

Code is hardly ever developed from scratch. Rather, new code typically needs to integrate with existing code and is dependent upon existing libraries. Two recent studies found that developers spend, ...

If I didn't cover something you want to know about or you find another problem, please open an issue on github. The Unix shell is one of my favorite inventions ever. It's genius, plain and simple. The ...

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