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You mean, collaborative coding a la Google docs? Nope. :-) There is no back-end through which one could coordinate such things. It's all done in-browser.

Ever wanted to quickly share and run Python code via a URL? Well, now you can! PySnippets is JSFiddle or CodePen but for Python in the browser (via PyScript). It's a static website…

Antonio is a star. He's also a very talented artist.

I wonder what old school international grandmasters like Theydon Bois (France), Pim Li Ko (China) and Will Esden-Green (UK) would think of the modern game... We've lost the creativ…

Thirded... our world is a better place because of Sam and his contributions.

I skim in the morning for "News". I avoid otherwise because of the "Hacker" (i.e. tech bro) vibes.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lewis-herber-murray-... (Lewis Herber is pseudonym of Murray Bookchin)

This is a similar project (by a friend), that recreates the look and feel of the outstanding UK Government design system: https://gdcss.netlify.app/ Same idea and Pico (classless, …

I managed to get MicroPython versions of these working on a micro:bit with the speaker directly plugged into the IO pins. Lots of fun, and MicroPython was definitely quick enough. …

... writing a blog can also be life changing. Putting thoughts into words for others to understand is a creative activity that keeps on giving for all sorts of subtle reasons. (Wha…

I read this way back when. It deserves its status as a classic. I highly recommend it.

Some fun archaeology and digging around into the dark and weird corners of PyPI. I, for one, didn't realise that "Kenneth Reitz" is a perfectly valid version number! :-)

The ultimate source of this is Aristotle... the original is (from memory), something like this: Those who can, do; those who understand, teach.

Perhaps a more humorous illustration of the same principle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAz_UvnUeuU

The only failure of education that I see around here relates to the schooling of HN users who don't have the wherewithal or self awareness to understand that they're pushing ignora…

Eyup Daniele, it's great to see this get some recognition and visibility. It's a very useful framework for documentation. Best of luck with the job hunt..!

Me too

I'm an open source contributor. I've worked/collaborated with Adafruit. They support the ecosystem. Perhaps they don't blow their own trumpet in this respect (and should, so you co…

The "bits that are missing" relate to Python's standard library, which is huge. MicroPython has svelte versions of many of Python's standard library modules... Pick and choose what…

Yup. Kudos to the maintainers and volunteer contributors who continue to work on these tools. As some of the other comments here show, it's a thankless task.

MicroPython is an amazing achievement, and Damien has done fantastic work growing the project.

I know Sam (the creator) and can vouch that he's a good guy and a bit of a legend. He hasn't had the easiest of rides when it comes to sustainable support for his work. I'd encoura…

LambdaMoo, BayMoo (and the now defunct ParkMoo) were all favourite haunts of mine in the mid-90s when I was at university. Perhaps I'm feeling nostalgic for those innocent pre-soci…