Open source repositories can be vectors for maliciousness, so look before you run. (more…)

For this next blog post in my series of Python's syntactic sugar, I'm tackling what would seem to be a very simple bit of syntax, but which actually requires diving into multiple layers to fully implement: not. On the surface, the definition of not is ver... (more…)

From one perspective, categories are just another algebraic structure, like groups, monoids and rings. They are these abstract things that have some abstract equational axioms and operations. They are the next stop on our magnificent category journey. A m... (more…)

What is a switch? The switch is a statement that evaluates the accuracy or similarity of the value of a certain input. But isn’t that the same thing that the if statement does? Let’s see this statement starting with bash scripting lang... (more…)

This morning I ran across a blog post that presented two Python scripts, one of which was much more efficient than the other. The blog post has since been deleted so I can’t link to it, but t…