So, a few weeks back, I stumbled upon this awesome talk by Brandon Rhodes. I was so hooked that I couldn't resist the temptation to dive right into the example he shared and jot down my learnings. One key takeaway I've learned is the importance of
I made Tournacat, an add-on that syncs upcoming Esports tournament schedules to Google Calendar. Three months later, Tournacat has over 90 users and is slowly growing. Here, I want to walk through my experience of building Tournacat using Cloudflare Worker, Hugo, and Google Apps Script. Along the way, I encountered
Can you use else in a for loop in Python? The answer is a resounding yes! I know it sounds crazy. The use of else after for and while loops in Python is not a widely known idiom. The use of the for-else construct is often misunderstood and overlooked. For
I hopped on the DuckDuckGo (DDG) hype train some years ago. It lasted for about 5 months. Unfortunately, I can’t help to be constantly reminded how good the Google "site:" search is. A story probably for another day. While DDG did not become my default search engine,
So, you have heard of the Global Interpreter Lock, or GIL for short? What exactly is GIL? Well, in short GIL is a mechanism that is built into the CPython interpreter. It is designed to prevent multiple native threads from executing Python bytecodes at once. “Blah-blah-blah, stop trying to sound