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The bundle All books bundle by Sundeep Agarwal is on sale on Leanpub! Its suggested price is $144.00; get it for $18.00 with this coupon: leanpub.com/b/learnbyexamp… @learn_byexample #python #javascript #computer_programming #ruby

Took me almost a month, but it’s finally done. I completely rewrote the first chapter of linux-insides about the Linux kernel initialization process. Now it should be aligned with modern kernels (up to master). github.com/0xAX/linux-ins…

Announcing Textual Diff View! Add beautiful diffs to your terminal application. ⭐ Unified and split view ⭐ Line and character highlights ⭐ Many themes ⭐ Horizontal scrolling github.com/batrachianai/t…

I've been looking into autograd internals of Pytorch. While I was aware of how backward mode autodiff works, I didn't know there was also forward mode autodiff. I had to read up on that. There is a very comprehensive article from an MIT course on that, I highly recommend it.

Decorators blueprint: a step by step explanation of the full decorator anatomy. Steal this for when you're writing your own decorators.

🐍 Struggling with Python regular expressions? 🔥 I wrote an interactive TUI app with 100+ exercises, covering both `re` and `regex` modules! github.com/learnbyexample…

I just released v1.4 + v1.5 of "mkdocs-quiz" this week with some fun new features: ✍️ Fill-in-the-blank quizzes (not just multiple choice) 💾 QTI export for Canvas/Blackboard/Moodle ✨ Interactive terminal CLI quiz runner github.com/ewels/mkdocs-q…

My latest #Python book is now available in digital format

This year I'm starting a habit of working on a book every day. I have to write at least a paragraph for it to count. (I set a small daily goal to make it RIDICULOUS for me to skip it.) I'm 15 days in. The progress accumulates fast!

Python has a "suppress" decorator in contextlib, which catches and ignores exceptions of a given type. I didn't use this for the longest time. It felt like an import to do something so trivial. I didn't care too much about saving two lines. Lately though, I prefer it. Not for saving lines, but because it is self documenting. The "suppress" is clearer when scanning code. This can get lost in your mind's eye when scanning code: try: file.write(...) except OSError: pass This feels more explicit, and easier to read at-a-glance with suppress(OSError): file.write(...) This tweet brought to you from the "last humans still writing code" generation.

You can use the module `json` to read and write data in the JSON format, which is very suitable to represent the most common Python built-in types: - lists - dictionaries - strings - integers - floats - Booleans.

@KeCaran Thanks a lot for the kind words! You should have access to all the issues from your Gumroad account.

@learn_byexample Sundeep, your newsletter was/is terrific. Will there be any way to access old issues?

🐧Want to test your Linux CLI text processing skills? 🔥Check out my interactive TUI app with 70+ exercises! github.com/learnbyexample…

Wrote an essay on why time is such a hard problem in distributed systems. This week, I went down the rabbit hole of clock drift, NTP, PTP, logical clocks, vector clocks, and how systems like Spanner and CockroachDB deal with ordering and causality at scale. If you want to know how and why clocks break databases, why milliseconds matter, or how distributed systems deal with time, this essay will give you a solid mental model. Give it a read.

First time seeing this and it is really great! abseil.io/fast/hints.html

Alrighty. The Toad is out of the bag. 👜🐸 Install toad to work with a variety of #AI coding agents with one beautiful terminal interface. Check out the blog post for more information... willmcgugan.github.io/toad-released/ I've been told I'm very authentic on camera. You just can't fake that kind of awkwardness.

Is curl supposed to be pronounced "See URL"? Because that makes sense, but I hadn't thought about it until now.