Growing an audience is an expensive and painful task. And if you’d like to build an audience that’s relevant to you, and shares common interests, that’s even more difficult. (more…)

Imagine the following situation: there is a software developer that is either adding new code or refactoring existing one by extracting a class/function. They have to place code somewhere, but it does not seem to fit anywhere. So what does a developer do?... (more…)

We're going to write a clone of Arkanoid (Breakout) using Python and PyGame Zero. In this post, I want to show you how easy it is to write a simple game. Let's get started! All the code is available here: https://github.com/shantnu/arkanoid-clone The imag... (more…)

We recently explored how wealthy countries (those defined as high-income by the World Bank) tend to visit a different set of technologies than the rest of the world. Among the largest differences we saw was in the programming language Python. When we focu... (more…)

PEP 622 proposes adding a pattern matching construct to Python. Pattern matching allows the programmer to destructure data with a syntax that mirrors the construction syntax. The proposal brings Python in-line with many other modern programming languages,... (more…)