Advanced usage of Python requests - timeouts, retries, hooks
Great article that discusses some useful advanced uses of requests.
Setting up a local web server on macOS 10… - Apple Community
Setting up a local web server, especially with php and serving from a user's home directory, on macOS.
Visual git History
Neat site that provides an animated view of the history of a file in git (well, mostly on GitHub and similar forges). Could be handy if ever needing to demonstrate how some code evolved.
Gerbil Scheme
Another Scheme I've not seen before. Looks interesting and maintained too.
Changing the default branch for new Git repositories — Leigh Brenecki
It's time to drop the "master" branch and use something better.
Media Queries Level 5
Some detail on the CSS query that lets you detect of someone has their OS set to prefer dark mode rather than light.
Here’s what I didn’t know about “content” - Manuel Matuzović
Deepish dive into what the content property can do in CSS.
A set of free MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons for UI development.
Handy set of svg-based icons, ideal for websites and web-based apps.
Free online bioinformatics course
Many biomedical research graduate programs have been compelled to “go online” with little or no notice due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since many professors are distinctly uncomfortable in front of a camera, students may not get exposure to some of the topics that they might have expected. Since my move to South Africa in 2015, I have tried to deposit video on YouTube (and PDFs of the slides to Google Drive) every time I have delivered a lecture for students. Since I teach a fairly broad range of coursework, the catalog of topics may be useful for students working from home or for departments that are trying to ensure their students get the training they need. This page indexes the series of lectures I have made available. I hope you enjoy watching them as much as I have enjoyed creating them!
Programming Algorithms
Book that describes various programming algorithms, all based around Lisp.
15 Git tips to improve your workflow
Small number of handy git hints from GitLab.
Exploring Emacs chart Library
Despite using it since the mid 1990s, I'd never noticed that Emacs had acquired a pretty good charting library. This blog post is a pretty good introduction to it.
Think Julia: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
Free online book about getting to know Julia.
On the performance and design of BioSequences compared to the Seq language | BioJulia
Interesting article that compares Seq to Julia, and in doing so results in speed improvements in a bioinformatics library for Julia.
Browse good first issues to start contributing to open source - The GitHub Blog
Github are doing more to make it easier to find good issues to get you into contributing to projects. I like this idea and should make a point of looking at the possible contributions of projects I make use of a lot.
A Makefile for Emacs Packages « null program
Good blog post that talks about effective use of Makefiles when building and managing Emacs Lisp code.
Emacs Lisp Animations
Potentially useful and fun introduction to programming in Emacs Lisp, that actually gives results people might enjoy.
The Fundamental Problem in Python 3 | The Changelog
The Incredible Disaster of Python 3 | The Changelog
licensing - What can I assume if a publicly published project has no license? - Open Source Stack Exchange
Useful thread about what you should take away from a repository that's available on a forge (especially GitHub) and which has no obvious licence.
A crash course in machine learning
Google's crash course in machine learning.
0.30000000000000004.com
Handy web page that explains the issue of floating point numbers, as it relates to different programming languages.
python - PyLint "Unable to import" error - how to set PYTHONPATH? - Stack Overflow
Very handy solution to the problem of making a project you're working on available to its own tests. While this tends not to be an issue for linting from the command line (I use a Makefile and sort the PYTHONPATH when doing the linting), but from within Emacs with flycheck it can be more awkward.
awesome-for-beginners: A list of awesome beginners-friendly projects.
A great repo that contains a list of projects that encourage beginners (in programming, in some language, or perhaps even in a problem domain) to work on issues. All have some sort of "low-hanging fruit" tag for issues that would be a good place to build confidence in contributing.
Journeys: A fun coding challenge.
A fun little coding challenge; ideal for getting to know a new language, or testing someone's knowledge of a language.
Seq language
A high-performance, Pythonic language for bioinformatics
Seq: A high-performance language for bioinformatics
Paper about a language, that is pretty much a twist on Python that's aimed at getting higher performance for bioinformatics applications.
A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev
List of online tools and services that are useful for software development, and which have a free tier that allow for testing things out.
coded4: Time-based statistics for Git/Hg repos
Handy little tool that can be used to get a flavour of how long you've spent working on a particular project. While it's not going to be 100% accurate, it will give a vague sense of duration.
Placeholder support for contentEditable elements, without JavaScript
Handy method of adding placeholder-a-like text to contenteditable elements in a document.