The RFC process has been a huge success in defining the standards that run the Internet, but naively adopting this process for your company is a mistake. RFC processes tend to fail at most organizations because they lack a clear decision-making step.

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Good documentation is a critical feature of any successful Python project. In practice, writing documentation is hard and can take a lot of time and effort. Nowadays, with tools like ChatGPT, you can quickly document your Python code and projects.

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Excalidraw is a virtual collaborative whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.

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The article, Analyzing Data 180,000x Faster with Rust, first presents some unoptimized Python code, and then shows the process of rewriting and optimizing the code in Rust, resulting in a 180,000x speed-up. The author notes:

Making the EM5 mk 2 High Res Mode Sing By Brad Nichol - His blog is HERE Hi Steve, I though that some of your readers might be interested in a little low down on the Olympus EM5 mk 2 high res mode, it is certainly a popular camera but one that is difficult for

Build a multitasking operating system and kernel with an interactive shell!

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10 years ago, we released an awesome CLI for developing single-page JavaScript applications. So, why did it fail?

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I recently re-read Martin Fowler's excellent book on refactoring. It's about improving the design and quality of your code in small steps, without changing external behavior. The book contains detailed descriptions of refactorings, with motivation, mechanics, and an example for each. A must-read.

By June 1949, people had begun to realize that it was not so easy to get a program right as had at one time appeared. It was on one of my journeys between the EDSAC room and the punching equipment that the realization came over me with full force that a good part of the remainder of my life was going to be spent in finding errors in my own programs. — Maurice Wilkes, creator of the first stored-program computer, EDSAC Debugging is programming, and programming is often mostly debugging. One of t

Weddings are an occasion for gift giving, and a fine watch always makes an ideal gift, whether it’s from a parent to a prospective son- or daughter-in-law, a groom to a best man, or exchanged between the betrothed couple in addition to (or in place of) the traditional rings. What are the best wedding watches? We put th