better-exceptions - Pretty and useful exceptions in Python, automatically. (more…)

This post is a deep-dive into programmatically trading on the Ethereum / Bancor exchange and exploiting a game-theoretic security flaw in… (more…)

Pylance is now the default language server for Python in Visual Studio Code, providing IntelliSense functionality as of the May 2021 release of the Python Extension for VS Code. (more…)

Caching is an essential optimization technique. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use Python's @lru_cache decorator to cache the results of your functions using the LRU cache strategy. This is a powerful technique you can use to leverage the power of ... (more…)

A command pattern that I’ve used in multiple projects is an event-loop sidecar. The sidecar runs on it’s own thread and does asynchronous IO; thereby increasing the responsiveness of the system which could be doing IO/CPU bound work. The application (runn... (more…)