The recent reveal of Meltdown and Spectre reminded me of the time I found a related design bug in the Xbox 360 CPU – a newly added instruction whose mere existence was dangerous. Back in 2005 I was…

Dave Beazley's presentation from PyCon'2010 in Atlanta Georgia. This is a mirror of the original presentation hosted at http://blip.tv/pycon-us-videos-2009-2010-2011/pycon-2010-understanding-the-python-gil-82-3273690.

David Beazley teaches intense in-person…

HDR Photography in Microsoft Excel?! by Kevin Chen

Have you ever taken a photo with areas that are too bright or too dark? As any photographer will tell you, high dynamic range photography is the right way to solve your problem. And, as any businessperson…

Load CSS asynchronously. Contribute to filamentgroup/loadCSS development by creating an account on GitHub.

Just absolute madness

Build your blockchain: A tutorial where a blockchain and a cryptocurrency are created from scratch using Typescript.

I was reading through the MDN docs the other day and found these JS features and
APIs I never knew existed. So here is a short list of those things, useful or
not - learning JS seemingly never ends.

Label Statements
[https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/…

Dictionaries are insertion ordered as of Python 3.6. It is described as a CPython implementation detail rather than a language feature. The documentation states:

dict() now uses a “compact”

In Python you may have a function definition:
def info(obj, spacing=10, collapse=1)

which could be called in any of the following ways:
info(odbchelper)
info(odbchelper, 12) ...

<a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0498/" target="_blank">PEP 498</a> introduced a new string formatting mechanism known as <strong>Literal String Interpolation</strong> or more commonly as <strong>F-strings (because of the leading f character preceding…

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Content aware image resize library. Contribute to esimov/caire development by creating an account on GitHub.

http://CppCon.org
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Presentation Slides, PDFs, Source Code and other presenter materials are available at: https://github.com/CppCon/CppCon2017
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In 2012, Matt and a colleague were arguing whether it was efficient to use the then-new-fangled range for. During…

API for HTTP Cats