The config.txt file - Raspberry Pi Documentation
Link: The config.txt file - Raspberry Pi Documentation: "The official documentation for Raspberry Pi computers and microcontrollers"
A very useful documenation of various pre-boot config files for Rasberry Pi
Best Practices for Working with Large Language Models
Link: Best Practices for Working with Large Language Models: "Generative AI has revolutionized programming. Based on his own experience, Jon Udell codifies how to partner effectively with LLM assistants."
We’re all doing it now, right? Using LLMs for all kinds of things? Well here are some useful rules of thumb. By the way, as far as employing a team of assistants, take a look at Poe.com. It’s a single front end to all (almost all) the LLMs out there. And in fact it bakes in the question of what would the other LLMs say to the same prompt.
A brave new world!
Grading for Growth
Link: Grading for Growth: "Research and ideas about reforming grading practices in higher education and beyond. Click to read Grading for Growth, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers."
This article lays out many of the things that worry and bother me about the way we teach, assess and grade.
Should You Use Ruby on Rails or Hanami?
Link: Should You Use Ruby on Rails or Hanami?: "Let's explore the strengths and weaknesses of Rails and Hanami."
Useful comparison between Hanami and rmRails. I would have expected a Hanami bias. But even in this, I think Rails ends up on top!
Great Tables GT package
Link: Great Tables GT package: ""
Extremely useful package for creating pretty tables for display and publication. Just look at the examples!
Software Needs To Be More Expensive
Link: Software Needs To Be More Expensive: "Software, like coffee, is too artificially cheap, and we need to make it more expensive. I have one suggestion for how to do that."
I agree with the high level argument. The open source situation does need a solution. But in general, we need to find ways to pay software developers more for the work they put into writing software. Wait! What do I mean? We have trained the world to expect to pay $0 for software that took huge numbers of person months to create. $4.90 is expensive! I know this is how the market weeds out useless products. But lots of useful ones need to fight this too. Try-before-you buy should remove the risk factor. But once you adopt an app and use it regularly then be willing to pay a serious amount for a serious app. People just don't have a sense of how much time and effort it takes to create even something as simple as an exellent solitaire game.
Pydantic: Simplifying Data Validation in Python – Real Python
Link: Pydantic: Simplifying Data Validation in Python – Real Python: "Discover the power of Pydantic, Python's most popular data parsing, validation, and serialization library. In this hands-on tutorial, you'll learn how to make your code more robust, trustworthy, and easier to debug with Pydantic."
Excellent introduction and overview of one of the most used python packages: Pydantic.
Python F-String Codes I Use Every Day - Pybites
Link: Python F-String Codes I Use Every Day - Pybites: "I use f-strings every day. The irony is I also every day end up searching the Web to find the correct format to use. Until one day I thought a"
Very helpful cheat sheet of all the options around python f-strings
So your teacher wants you to do open source
Link: So your teacher wants you to do open source: "If your teacher (or tutorial/video/hackathon/etc) says "go do X in an open source project" and then sends you off unsupervised, they haven't adequately prepa..."
Teachers, like me, might think it’s a good idea to suggest that students do a quick open source contribution. This article explains why that might be doing harm to the project’s.
Designing a Pure Python Web Framework · Reflex Blog
Link: Designing a Pure Python Web Framework · Reflex Blog: ""
Another web app stack written in pure python. Claim to fame seems to be that it compiles pure python into a react front and and a FastAPI back end. Programmer does not need to know JavaScript, html, css etc. Which is nice. But for me personally it’s not the kind of structure I would want. But still worth a look I think!