Let's reach way, way back. 1989 - 1990. This will let me talk about OO programming and Python Type Hints. (really) And doing OO design for things that are as pervasive (and transparent) as air. Things that need to be part of a design, but don't appear in any documentation.

In …

The question was "Favorite Design Patterns."

This is tricky because -- well -- so many patterns appear and re-appear in software. Picking a few from the vast world of patterns is fraught with difficulties.

Here are some thoughts:

• Code Quality - Which Implementation is "Better"?
• State-Based Object Modeling
• Functional Programming and Finite State …

Few things are as distracting as those god-awful side quests.

In this case, I had to search out all of the examples in my new book drafts.

Reaching back to 2008. Yes. Decade(s) ago. Python 2.5.

I was reminded of this when a former colleague pinged me about this: https://github.com/slott56/TigerShark.

Yes, it's an X12/EDI message parsing library from -- well -- decades ago.

See Programming Languages I've Learned (more-or-less in order) [Update].

This came up on Twitter and Fosstodon.

See https://fosstodon.org/@vpavlyshyn/109908255464181943 and https://fosstodon.org/@slott56/109908527412493172.

I omitted a few things from the list because -- well -- there are a LOT of languages.

For example, in the 90's I …

The (almost) 10-year old 27" Thunderbolt display finally died.

Well, it didn't really die.

The Thunderbolt connector had gotten impossibly flaky. If I looked at it wrong, the monitor glitched or disonnected.

It was dead enough that I wasn't going to deal with it.

It involved this morass of adapters …

I'm undecided if this goes into the next book. Maybe this is a teaser... And yes, this is a Python to the Rescue story.

I live on a boat. See Red Ranger Blog for details. What's essential is this little complication.

The South Gulf Cove Boat Lock.

The lock keeps …

For social contact, I'm generally following people on https://fosstodon.org/home. I'm https://fosstodon.org/@slott56.

Or @slott56@fosstodon.org <https://fosstodon.org/@slott56> as they say in the Fediverse.

But I saw some stuff on Twitter that was disheartening.

I thought Python🐍wasn't strongly typed.🤔 But this code …