A solid text editor is a developer’s best friend. You use it constantly and it becomes like a second pair of hands. The keyboard commands you use daily become so engrained in your muscle memory that you stop thinking about them entirely. (more…)

Installation of the python.org Python distribution on Windows is complex. There are three main approaches with roughly equivalent levels of user experience, and yet all of these suffer from different limitations, including failing to satisfy modern usag..... (more…)

Python’s float type is a natural first step to represent monetary amounts in the code. Almost all platforms map Python floats to IEEE-754 “double precision”. Doubles contain 53 bits of precision. When the machine is trying to represent the fractional part... (more…)

I have been teaching some students the basics of programming using python. Our latest session involve... (more…)

A piece on my new web development stack following my ongoing work on three Nuxt applications... (more…)