Nice, I never heard of this guy before! Interestingly enough, he sings the same sort of grace notes or melisma as he plays in solos! He's technically perfect in this track, he never flubs a note and has extremely good timing. I really enjoyed that track but he's just a…

Very specific, actionable information without too much cruft: every technical article should be like this. These are the sorts of things you wouldn't notice in a couple of weeks but would drive you nuts, or thrill you, in a couple of years. To be honest, you've sort of damped my…

But you don't give any reasons why this should actually be a principle. Having worked on multiple codebases where people took this as gospel for almost every part of the code, I would say that this added little in value to the codebase but added friction to every commit and…

This is my surprised face: :-| Not all philosophers are like that, I hasten to add, some of them are freewheeling freaks who are open to any or all ideas, but institutions have a way of promoting people who don't rock the boat. I can't find a good copy of this sketch, but here's a stretched one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa0bCzwSNA0

Good article, but as written, the above sentence is not right at all! The most important rule is this: don't catch exceptions at all unless you can completely handle them. It's much, much better for a program to crash than it is to continue with things in a bad state. …

Interestingly, every NewType I ever created got turned into an actual class fairly fast because we always wanted to hang extra functionality on it. Python 3 and I think 2 (I can’t run 2.7 on this machine it seems!) allow you to write instead: class CarID(int): pass so I just do that sort of thing now with the expectation that more methods will eventually follow.

Hear, hear! I'm at the point now that if a programmer never uses any sort of data class, like dataclasses or pydantic, I think somewhat the worse of them. Oh, I have a tip for you, it's changed my life (a little tiny bit): import dataclasses as dc import typing as t I set my editor to insert these two lines at the top of each new Python file I create (and I rely on ruff to remove them automatically if they don't actually get used.)

I'm enjoying your article, but this sentence is a bit week. Oh, it's not that it takes much time to, ah, type the typing, but it takes you time to think up the typing. Most of the time that is very little but occasionally coming up with the correct type…

What do you see as the endgame for this? it doesn't seem good for most of humanity. Using AI to generate a large number of posts all over social media will force everyone else to do the same thing, resulting in a more level playing field, except with a much…