I have a particular view of Python performance from my experience on the Pyston project, and since this view is somewhat nonstandard I wanted to take some time to explain it and give a motivating example. (more…)

In this tutorial, you'll learn about assignment expressions and the walrus operator. The biggest change in Python 3.8 was the inclusion of the := operator, which you can use to assign variables in the middle of expressions. You'll see several examples of ... (more…)

Rather than discussing advertising and privacy, in this post we're going to talk about how we scaled our ad server using some of the same tools and techniques we use on Read the Docs. (more…)

Python app to export pictures and associated metadata from Apple Photos on MacOS. Also includes a package to provide programmatic access to the Photos library, pictures, and metadata. - RhetTbull/... (more…)

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