Hi everyone! 👋 I have always been fascinated by barcodes and QR codes. I have known for a long time about how they work in theory but I never did enough research on it. It seemed like I would learn a lot from diving deeper and implementing a barcode gene... (more…)

Dependency injection is a controversial topic. There are known problems, hacks, and even whole methodologies on how to work with DI frameworks. It is not the case when using functional approach: which is simple and explicit. (more…)

The “with” statement in Python is regarded as an obscure feature by some. But when you peek behind the scenes of the underlying Context Manager protocol you’ll see there’s little “magic” involved. (more…)

I'm pleased to announce the release of Hy 1.0.0, after nearly 12 years of on-and-off development and lots of real-world use. Hy is a Lisp dialect embedded in Python. See Hylang.org for an introduct... (more…)

In this tutorial, you'll explore the concept of passing by reference and learn how it relates to Python's own system for handling function arguments. You'll look at several use cases for passing by reference and learn some best practices for implementing ... (more…)