This: https://opensource.com/business/16/9/alternatives-powerpoint Missing from the list? The S5-based slide-show tools that are part of docutils. The only issue with S5 is that you need to carefully review each and every page to be sure you material fits. There's no autosizing of the fonts, or …

Some thoughts: http://workingwithdevs.com/delivering-databases-migrations-vs-state/

This covers a lot of ground on the Declarative vs. Procedural question. It explains a lot of the considerations that lead to choosing a procedural schema evolution vs. a declarative schema with an implied change sequence to migrate to each new declared state.

The …

Check out this idiocy: https://github.com/slott56/py-false

What is the point? Seriously. What. The. Actual. Heck?

I think of it this way.

• Languages are a cool thing. Especially programming languages where there's an absolute test -- the Turing machine -- for completeness.
• The Forth-like stack language is a cool thing …

Something I forget to think about is the degree of detail or granularity of design patterns. I have my own viewpoint and I often assume that others share it.

Here's a quote from an email describing the PLoP (Pattern Languages of Programs) patterns as quite distinct from the Gang of …

https://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/which-programming-language-will-earn-you-the-highest-salary/ Okay. I like that. I wonder what the r² value is.

Read this: http://jeffq.com/blog/the-ethernet-pause-frame/ Fascinating. A world of interconnected devices in which we place a kind of implicit trust. There's little visibility for ordinary consumers. It takes a skilled specialist to determine that there are flaws in a product. It's not that the system is "flaky." It's …

Here's the question, lightly edited to remove the garbage. (Sometimes I'm charitable and call it "rambling". Today, I'm not feeling charitable about the garbage writing style filled with strange assumptions instead of questions.)

someone asked if you could have both a yield and a return in the same ... function/iterator …

I'm looking at code (as a man does) and I can't remember if there's a class that does X. There's a lot of code. I wrote almost all of it. And -- maybe it's the gin -- but I just can't recall if there's an X. It seems like there should be …