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I'm trying to make a spreadsheet interface for solving scheduling problems. Constraint satisfaction and optimization is exactly the sort of problem we should be using computers for…

Nice writeup, this is also how I think about OAuth. I gave a very similar talk at Develop Denver back in 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rGkz9Ib4fQ My slides even look simil…

Unless you're importing *, pylint will tell you about both missing imports and unused ones.

There are a couple of attempts in that direction with TypeScript[1,2]. A bit more work than if there was direct language support, but I've used "branded types" to distinguish betwe…

> E.g. I couldn’t for the life of me annotate the return value of the pipe function Don't feel bad, no one can do that (yet! I think it should be possible with Variadic Tuple Types…

I think you might be underestimating how hard breastfeeding is pushed in US hospitals. Our second night in the hospital with my son, my wife's milk hadn't come in yet. Our son was …

perhaps it should be called "post-modern"?

I think I'm confused. If you want to delegate _everything_, why not just actually use inheritance? Or even the object itself. What's an example of when you would want an ObjectProx…

Nice write-up! Coincidentally, I wrote on the same topic, also in python just a few days ago [1] I came to largely the same conclusions, but instead of forwardable, I wrote a new l…

This reminds me of the Ducks pattern[1] that I've been excited about recently. And also Vue's single-file components. [1] https://github.com/erikras/ducks-modular-redux/blob/master…

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I'm in Denver and would love to help out.

I wrote about my (mac-specific) pass setup at https://brianschiller.com/blog/2016/08/31/gnu-pass-alfred It uses Alfred to get fast, autocompleted access to passwords.

I also found myself doing that pretty often, so I wrote this: def nget(d, *ks, **kwargs): for k in ks: d = d.get(k) if d is None: return kwargs.get('default') return d >>> d = {'a'…

This is very cool! As a piece of constructive feedback, consider waiting until a visualization is scrolled into view to start animation. I'm particularly thinking of the Exponentia…

This guy keeps quoting his own tweets... from today. http://i.imgur.com/EePKQ.png

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Good catch! I've fixed it now.