Mitchell Hashimoto reflects on key life events that shaped his perception of 'normal' and steered his path into programming and tech.
A developer receives a Raspberry Pi as an early Christmas gift and ponders creative tech projects to build with it.
A developer shares progress on a Ludum Dare game jam project, a rule-changing strategy game built in C++.
Explains the Iterator design pattern in JavaScript, showing how to create and use iterator objects for consistent collection traversal.
A developer's personal journey from skepticism to advocacy for PyLadies, exploring the importance of diversity and inclusion in the tech community.
A satirical guide categorizing different stereotypes of web developers, from 'Rockstars' to 'Pedants', based on their skills and approaches.
A tutorial exploring Ruby's Date class, the Chronic natural language parser, and Active Support for date manipulation.
A critique of beginner programming books and a proposal for a more effective, project-based approach to teaching coding.
A critique of modern programmers' tendency to complain about new languages and tools rather than engaging with them, using Go and Dart as examples.
A developer's 2011 retrospective on adopting Vim, switching to Mac, and diving deep into Python, Twisted, and the Python community.
A programmer shares their excitement about receiving the book 'Design for Hackers' to improve their design skills for games and websites.
A beginner's guide to understanding and fixing the NoMethodError in Ruby on Rails 3, explaining its common causes.
A programmer's personal reflection on improving focus by dedicating a week to a fun Perl IRC bot project.
A technical article about improving mouse pointer behavior in the Emacs text editor, specifically enhancing the mouse-avoidance-mode.
Registration is now open for EuroScipy, a conference on scientific computing with Python, featuring tutorials, talks, and a potential journal publication.
Explains how to create a self-reproducing zip file that contains itself, drawing parallels to self-replicating programs.
A personal recap of the author's experiences and key technical talks from days 2-4 of the PyCon 2010 conference.
Announcing EuroScipy 2010, a European conference on Python for scientific computing, featuring tutorials and keynote speakers in Paris.
A developer shares three key methods for improving technical skills: learning by doing, participating in communities, and sharing knowledge through blogging.
A programmer argues against 'walled garden' ecosystems like the iPad, defending the importance of open, tinkerable systems for learning and innovation.
