A ksuid is a K sorted UID. In other words, a KSUID also stores a date component, so that ksuids can be approximately sorted based on the time they were created. (more…)

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Today we are excited to announce we’re open-sourcing MonkeyType, our tool for automatically adding type annotations to your Python 3 code… (more…)

What is Recursion? If you understand the underlying concept of recursion but struggle to implement it like myself, or you don't even know what it is, then this post if for you. Recursion is defined as solving a complex problem by breaking the problem... (more…)

Build your own distributed crawler with custom parsers per domain. Discover new pages and store the exact content you need — all in less than 300 LOC. (more…)