Lately, I’ve been doing a lot more things at the command line. I’m not a hard-core terminal guy – I use VSCode more than Vim – but I’m always surprised at t...
Recent posts
matplotlib is an excellent library for creating graphs and visualizations in Python. For example, I used it to generate the performance graphs in my merging...
Building and testing any large codebase is time-consuming, error-prone, and repetitive. Golang supports multi-platform builds, which is excellent, but it n...
Here is a problem. You are tasked with improving the hot loop of a Python program: maybe it is an in-memory sequential index of some sort. The slow part is...
Even though Python is regarded as an interpreted language and the files need not be compiled separately, many developers are unaware that you can still use ...
Concatenate Two Lists in Python Problem: You have two lists and you’d like to join them into a new list. Solution: Python 3.8.2 >>> one = [&q...
C++ is one of the most dominant programming languages. Although there are many compilers available, GCC still ranks as one of the most popular choices for C...
Some years ago, when I worked in a physical office, I was having trouble with a new report I was developing. The reasonably complex SQL that generated the ...
Many linting, code formatting, and static analysis tools exist for code. You can use eslint, gofmt, or many other static analysis tools, combined with a gre...
This tutorial is a follow up to creating and hosting your own deb and apt repo, but is written for creating rpm packages for redhat-based Linux distributio...
Applying city planning to software development
Some modern development practices are easiest to understand from a historical perspective: things started a certain way, and then steps were added or remove...
In 2008, I got my first job at a software-as-a-service company. We built learning management software and ran it on servers in the small data center connec...
There are many ways to deploy applications to a production server environment, and the terminology around deploy strategies is often confusing. In this shor...