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Is it me, or is there a subliminal message in the banner of LightSpeed magazine? No time to look into it, but there appears to be a changing message that flashes on and off to take…

In my experience working with Notes over many years, it was a neat architecture let down by client UI that did not meet the expectations of users who also used, for example, MS Off…

The works of Elleston Trevor, writing as Adam Hall, are also worth a look. His protagonist is named Quiller, and perhaps the best known work is "The Berlin Memorandum" adapted into…

Other libraries are available: distlib is even part of PyPA, but apparently its approach to trying out new things put some people off, so it's not "blessed". It supports legacy, st…

The CFG configuration format is a text format for configuration files which is similar to, and a superset of, the JSON format. It's not new - it dates from well before its first an…

I developed a configuration format which is similar to, and a superset of, the JSON format. It's not new - it dates from well before its first announcement in 2008 - and has the fo…

Just under their table of contents, they say that "This list is fairly outdated." and point you to https://github.com/xflywind/awesome-nim - and that repo seems to have recent upda…

The pagesign module (named from ‘Python-age-sign’) allows Python programs to make use of the functionality provided by age [1] and minisign [2]. Using this module, Python programs …

The CFG configuration format is a text format for configuration files which is similar to, and a superset of, the JSON format. It's not new - it dates from well before its first an…

The license is currently just All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 2020 Lucian Marin It was the MIT license at the time of initial commit, and been updated to this. So it's not immed…

I've started playing around with Tailscale [1], which is based on WireGuard. Free to use for a single user, and I've tried it out on Raspberry Pi, Linux x86_64, Windows and Android…

In 2008, before many of the options for configuration that are available now had been created, I came up with a hierarchical configuration language [0] to use in my Python code. Mo…

Coconut oil works very well for soaps. You can get great great results with it. I've tried (as a hobbyist maker) red palm oil and coconut oil and I found the latter much preferable…

Response by the UK Vegan Society: https://www.vegansociety.com/whats-new/news/statement-media-...

If your threads are doing I/O rather than computation, then the GIL is less of an issue because it will be released until an I/O operation completes. It's only for threads which co…