I do a lot of web scraping in my spare time, and have been chasing down different formats and code snippets to make a large amount of network requests locally, with controls for rate limiting and error handling. (more…)

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In this talk, I'll share how I won 4 Twitter contests per day, every day, for 9 months straight. I'll discuss the methods I used, the delightfully random and... (more…)

Python is an easy to learn, powerful programming language. It has efficient high-level data structures and a simple but effective approach to object-oriented programming. Python’s elegant syntax an... (more…)

Opinions and discussions of various topics, mostly related to programming. (more…)