It knows more than just programming languages — We’ve all read about Github Copilot by now, I assume. If you haven’t, here’s the TL;DR… Github Copilot is an AI-based autocomplete on steriods for developers What surprised me most is that this thing doesn’t just know programming languages. Here are a couple of examples where I didn’t expect it…

Apply these tricks in your Python code to make it more concise and performant — Here are eight neat Python tricks some I’m sure you haven’t seen before. Apply these tricks in your Python code to make it more concise and performant! 1. Sorting Objects by Multiple Keys Suppose we want to sort the following list of dictionaries: people = [ { 'name': 'John', "age": 64 }, { 'name': 'Janet', "age": 34 }, {…

Two reasons: other projects, and Medium’s changes — For those following me, you may have noticed I don’t write as regularly as I used to do on here. There are a couple of reasons, in order of importance: I’m working on awesome projects that eat up most of my time Medium has changed the focus of this platform …

Tips to improve the way you write and use comments — A Python comment is an explanation in the source code of a Python program. It doesn’t do anything besides being informative and is ignored by the Python interpreter. In this article, you will learn: what Python comments are, how to add comments to your Python code, what the common pitfalls…

Get off to a good start with these helpful tips and learning tactics — Getting started is hard, no matter what subject it is. To prevent getting discouraged early on, I’m sharing these tips to optimize your learning path. 1. Dive into the basics You’d think the Python website itself would contain a good tutorial like most other languages do. However, they mostly link to other sites or dive…

#4: Code never lies, comments sometimes do — Some things you don’t learn at school. These lessons come right from the work floor; I learned them the hard way! 1. Cheap, fast, reliable — Pick two I love this one because it makes the ones hearing it (your manager) think for themselves: Do you want it to be reliable and fast? It can be done…

Scaling a website without spending millions — You’re running a website or web application, and it’s gaining popularity quickly. The problem: you’re running your website on a single, cheap VPS. It uses typical components, like MySQL or MongoDB, a web server like Apache or Nginx, some storage, and a web framework like Python Django or a single…

Say goodbye to those hard-to-build software projects by containerizing them — More often than not, software projects are difficult to build from source. This can have multiple reasons, here are just a few: The project requires lots of dependencies. The project requires outdated libraries. Once you install those, other projects might break in turn. You’re running Windows or a Mac, but…

This is just as easy as using print, but 10 times better — Debugging Python code, for many of us, comes down to adding print statements and trying to reason what’s going on based on the output. It’s not ideal, but for some reason, people just don’t want to touch the debugger. Using print to debug code If you’re one of those people that use print for debugging…