Lisp Logical Pathnames
A short and useful introduction to logical pathnames in Common Lisp.
What Does "use client" Do? — overreacted
Interesting description of what "use client" and "use server" do in React.
Understanding the Value of TypeScript Enums
Useful article for understanding how TypeScript folk see enums in their language.
giscus
A widget for blogs and similar that uses GitHub discussions as a comments section. Might be a good idea for my own blog.
The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
A pretty wholesome story of some "hacking"; hacking in the correct and best sense of the word.
Rye and uv: August is Harvest Season for Python Packaging
Blog post about the state of Python packaging in 2024, with a particular emphasis on how uv is going (and in part rye too).
What Emacs got right, or how I wish modern apps were more like a 50 year old text editor
Someone's love letter to how everything is a command in Emacs. I tried to sell this approach for Textual, especially when the idea of a command palette was first raised. Sadly it never came to pass.
I think it would still be an excellent idea.
Statically Typed Functional Programming with Python 3.12
One person's adventutes in functional programmming in Python.
Common Lisp's BLOCK / RETURN-FROM and UNWIND-PROTECT
A nice description of how Common Lisp implements non-local flow control.
How to improve Python packaging, or why fourteen tools are at least twelve too many
"Join me on a journey through packaging in Python and elsewhere. We’ll start by describing the classic packaging stack (involving setuptools and friends), the scientific stack (with conda), and some of the modern/alternate tools, such as Pipenv, Poetry, Hatch, or PDM. We’ll also look at some examples of packaging and dependency-related workflows seen elsewhere (Node.js and .NET). We’ll also take a glimpse at a possible future (with a venv-less workflow with PDM), and see if the PyPA agrees with the vision and insights of eight thousand users."
Python Packaging, One Year Later: A Look Back at 2023 in Python Packaging
Annotating args and kwargs in Python
Useful blog post that goes over the best ways to type *args and **kwargs in Python.
Using the Hacker News API
Blog post going over the main details of the Hacker News API (possibly one of the worst APIs I've ever seen).
Basic introduction to Pydantic
Nice little introduction to what Pydantic offers.
These Years in Common Lisp: 2022 in review - Lisp journey
A revew of Common Lisp's 2022.
Musings on Python Type Hints
As a huge fan of type hinting in Python, I feel this is a good article introducing the sorts of things you should think about, and the benefits you should derive from using type hints.
Indexing outgoing blog links
Nice idea that I might have to try myself some time: index and analyse the outgoing links from blog posts to see what it is you link to the most.