‘80s Tech to Make You a Faster Programmer Now — The JAMstack. PyCaret. CI/CD automation. All sexy, cutting edge technologies on the frontier of software development. Then there’s Bash. The Bourne Again Shell, the default shell for Unix users–Linux and Mac. And an absolute must for software developers working on Windows. …

🐍 Doing the spreadsheet dance: the easy way. — Maybe it’s from too many hours behind the keyboard. But sometimes my reading and watching on the internet gives me the feeling I’m one of an endangered species of developer. One who’s working inside spreadsheets. Every single day. Can you believe it? Developers, going about their lives like spreadsheets don’t…

More tricks hiding up Python 3.9’s sleeve. — My first love letter to new Python 3 features went a little long. Here is the first article, covering adding types when writing Python code, and assignment expressions with :=, aka "the walrus operator." This article is going to talk briefly about a new feature in the upcoming Python 3.9…

The ghosts of Python Past (3.7), Present (3.8), and Future (3.9) are visiting you in 2020. — Since the switch to Python 3 a long time ago (*ahem* — I hope it was a long time ago!), the feature changes at the language level have been relatively minor. Yet with each version, the brainiacs working on Python keep making additions I am unable to live without. With…