Taking an opportunity to look back at some of our most-read posts from this year, in case you missed them the first time, as the last few days of the year slip by us… My turn! Earlier this year I wrote about a little Twitterbot that I wrote to...
As python programmers we are sometimes faced with using an API that is, well, unpythonic. Unpythonic? Pythonic? Huh? Have you ever tried running this: python -m this Maybe you’re using a C library via ctypes, or you have inherited a collection of functions....
It’s a pleasure to be able to interact with files in the browser at long last, isn’t it? Reading files in without needing to bounce them against the server first opens up a lot of possibilities – and getting progress from a chunked ajax upload is...
A while ago, I made a threat on Twitter that I was going to unfollow any account that wasn’t a bot. On an average day, I’ve been getting as much value out of these algorithmically-generated as I do from human-run accounts, it seems, whether it’s just...
After working from “home” for the past dozen or so years, it just dawned on me. Other than what I see on my screen, I’m entirely out of touch with my fellow designers and developers! Suddenly, I had a craving for some human interaction in my professional life and...
