Kimberly McCartyBitmaps (TGA format): Let’s Take a Good Look: Multitudes Entry 2This is the next entry in my posts about file encodings. Which I named Multitudes because I’m that big a dork re: Walt Whitman references.Nov 22, 2017Nov 22, 2017
Kimberly McCartyWAV files: Make some noise: Multitudes, Entry 1Part of a series that started with Entry 0: What’s Inside Files? What Even are Files?Nov 14, 2017Nov 14, 2017
Kimberly McCartyWhat’s inside files? What even are files? Multitudes Entry 0I’m working on a series of articles about file encoding. I’m hoping I can share them through this blog, but I’m starting to see the…Nov 14, 2017Nov 14, 2017
Kimberly McCartyAn Arithmetic Parser in Python 3Back in college, I bought a really cute calculator that can’t run programs or anything so I could take exams. I felt bad I wasn’t using it…Nov 9, 2017Nov 9, 2017
Kimberly McCartyDiving Into List Comprehensions in Python3: an IPy NotebookToday, I wrote a solution to a “simple” problem that started timing out. I realized I missed a simple error because I failed to consider…Oct 31, 2017Oct 31, 2017
Kimberly McCartyCoding Experiment: Asynchronous Event LoopLast night, at the RC Job Fair, a python engineer suggested a good way to better understand event loops is to write one yourself. It…Oct 21, 2017Oct 21, 2017
Kimberly McCartyModeling Crochet as a ProgrammerDuring my batch at the Recurse Center, I’ve worked on both larger projects (like my BitTorrent client) and smaller projects (like my Moniac…Oct 19, 2017Oct 19, 2017
Kimberly McCartyLeaving the Nest: Let your Twitter Bot fly among the cloudsWriting a Twitter Bot is a fun programming exercise for programmers of any skill level. There’s lots of API wrappers for every language…Oct 11, 2017Oct 11, 2017
Kimberly McCartyWriting a Bit Torrent Client: Step 1I’m not sure I’ve been explicit about this, but I’m participating at the Recurse Center and I’m about halfway through, and figured I’d…Oct 3, 20171Oct 3, 20171
Kimberly McCartyA Bestiary of Python’s AsyncioThis blog post is sort of meant to be my thoughts/notes on Asyncio, a library I’d like to understand in Python 3.5 and later. I’m writing…Sep 26, 2017Sep 26, 2017