How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
That thing where you obviously release something that works, just doesn't work well enough, and you never go back and improve it 'cos it works and, well... it's working yeah?
That.
lisp-journey.gitlab.io
Handy view of the state of the Common Lisp ecosystem as of 2020.
Genomics Boot Camp
The Genomics Boot Camp is a resource that helps you to start your journey in practical analysis of genomic data, with a focus on SNP data. The chapters follow the same structure all the time: provide background information and practical insight to the topic, and when appropriate exercises to reinforce the obtained knowledge. The Genomics Boot Camp as a whole was designed to cater to various learning preferences with written text, video demonstrations, and the possibility of hands-on exercises. There is a certain overlap between the book and the YouTube channel contents, but each has unique pieces of information as well. So for the full experience, I suggest checking out both.
A half-hour to learn Rust - fasterthanli.me
"In order to increase fluency in a programming language, one has to read a lot of it. But how can you read a lot of it if you don't know what it means?
In this article, instead of focusing on one or two concepts, I'll try to go through as many Rust snippets as I can, and explain what the keywords and symbols they contain mean."
How to Deduplicate String Objects In-Memory in Python
Handy approach to processing strings in Python that, in some situations, should save time and memory.
Python behind the scenes #1: how the CPython VM works
This article opens a series which seeks to answer this very question. We'll dive into the internals of CPython, Python's most popular implementation. By doing so we'll understand the language itself at a deeper level. That is the primary goal of this series. If you're familiar with Python and comfortable reading C but have no much experience working with CPython's source code, there is a good chance you'll find this writing interesting.
Solving the Sequence Alignment problem in Python
Sequence alignment code, in Python, with a good explanation of the problem and the solution.
Better Git diff output for Ruby, Python, Elixir, Go and more | tekin.co.uk
Very simple config change to git that makes diffs so much more useful for so many more languages -- especially Python in my case.
Cyclone Scheme
New implementation of Scheme with a compiler for building standalone applications.
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.
The Ecological Impact of High-performance Computing in Astrophysics
Or, put another way, which languages are killing the planet because they use more power on a system? Possibly. Perhaps.
Spoiler: FORTRAN is better than Python.
Static type checking in Lisp
Article about experimenting with static type checking in Common Lisp.
Conscientious Software
Software needs to grow up and become responsible for itself and its own future by participating in its own installation and customization, maintaining its own health, and adapting itself to new circumstances, new users, and new uses. To create such software will require us to change some of our underlying assumptions about how we write programs. A promising approach seems to be to separate software that does the work (allopoietic) from software that keeps the system alive (autopoietic).
pycodestyle
Another linter of sorts for Python, with an emphasis on code style as defined in PEP 8. I tend to use pylint for linting but this seems to be in favour when using lsp-mode in Emacs.
"Director of AI at Tesla" apparently doesn't VC or backup
So the "Director of AI at Tesla" appears to be in the habit of not committing code for at least 2 months at a time, and doesn't do backups... O_o
Getting started with ASDF
Handy little blog post that provides an introduction to getting started with ASDF.
Configuring Emacs, lsp-mode and the python language server. - vxlabs
Blog post that explains how to get lsp for Python going with Emacs -- especially useful in this case as it relates to virtual environments, pipenv, and also projectile; all things that I make use of for major Python development.
The Medley Interlisp Project
A project to revive and make available Medley Interlisp.
SLIME reference card
Handy reference card OF SLIME commands.
Writing a parser
Guide to writing a parser.
A Guide to Parsing: Algorithms and Terminology
As the title says: a guide to parsing. A fairly comprehensive into to issues relating to writing your own parser.
Starboard
Site that sort of provides active JavaScript notebooks, with a view to doing most/all of the work on the client side. I was sort of hoping there'd be a self-host option or something and I'm not seeing that. On the other hand it could be a good tool for tinkering with and prototyping code.
Contribution Graphs for Django | VanessaSaurus
Library for Django that provides a GitHub-a-like contribution graph.
Conventions for Command Line Options
Excellent blog post about the conventions normally used for CLI options; and also why Python's argument parser gets it wrong.
Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code
Paper that describes how native compilation of Emacs Lisp code can be done. Potentially appearing in Emacs 28, I believe.
Reader Macros in Common Lisp
Good written example of how to use reader macros in Common Lisp.
Introduction to auto layout on iOS (XCode)
Very useful introduction on auto layout of iOS apps as built with XCode.
Favicon generator
Very handy favicon generator. Covers all the useful bases.
The Many Faces of an Undying Programming Language
An article that goes over the various types of Lisp; nice high-level view.
Things you're probably not using in Python 3 - but should
Handy little post that details some of the real headline changes that have taken place in "recent" generations of Python 3. I'm happy to say that I make use of a good few of these already.