I’ve always been intrigued by the idea that Peter Norvig put forward, that "Basically, Python can be seen as a dialect of Lisp with "traditional" syntax." Apparently, there are folks who don’t find this sufficient. Enter "Hy"....
A raring, tearing, slick, awesome, fast software development editor. Here’s my vimrc. I’m sick of Sublime Text 2. It’s probably my fault. I wish it behaved like vim, which it nearly does but actually doesn’t in enough ways that I find myself glowering at it when I...
Think back to the web of fifteen years ago. Most of the web sites of the time consisted of a few pages of content along with a contact page (and maybe even a guestbook.) Most often that contact page was backed by a script that mailed the results to a fixed e-mail...
A quick twitter round up things that we’ve pointed to over at @artandlogic. You are following us, right? Illumiroom Microsoft Research released a very cool video of a research project that projection-maps additional video content outside the area of a TV...
There are only 2 gotchas in Python. The stack overflow post lists them, but also a bunch of other stuff. I ran into both of the gotchas in the space of a week recently and spent some time trying to figure out where the bug was. Here they are in case you find yourself...