Finding the right book can make a big difference, especially when you’re just starting out or trying to get better. We’ve ...

Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.

JIT compiler stack up against PyPy? We ran side-by-side benchmarks to find out, and the answers may surprise you.

Everything on a computer is at its core a binary number, since computers do everything with bits that represent 0 and 1. In order to have a file that is "plain text", so human readable with minimal ...

Abstract: Tracing file I/O operations in Linux is critical for understanding and optimizing application performance, particularly in I/O-intensive environments. However, the choice of tracing tool can ...

Here is a custom GPT that I quickly made to help answer questions about how to use and integrate Builder.io by simply providing the URL to the Builder docs. This project crawled the docs and generated ...

Abstract: Modern data storage systems often fetch data from a large number of sources. Although synchronous data transfer is simple as it can use simple scheduling of data delivery, it scales poorly.

WRITING IN ALL CAPS IS LIKE YELLING. Best to use your “indoor voice” sometimes, writing entirely in lowercase. In a file called indoor.py, implement a program in Python that prompts the user for input ...

Papyrus, parchment, slate, notebook; writing media have continued to evolve as technologies have changed. A new one pushes the others without, however, making them entirely obsolete. Let's think about ...