Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. (more…)

This week will be my last as the Director of Infrastructure at the Python Software Foundation and my last week as a staff member. Supporting the mission of this organization with my labor has been unbelievable in retrospect and I am filled with gratitude ... (more…)

Performance comparison of counting and sorting word frequencies in various languages (Python, Go, C++, C, AWK, Forth, and Rust)... (more…)

Getting to know BigQuery and feeling the power of sifting through mountains of data in just a few seconds. (more…)

I love using Go's interface feature to declaratively define my public API structure. Consider this example: package main import ( "fmt" ) // Declare the interface. type Geometry interface { area() float64 perim() float64 } // Struct that represents a rect... (more…)