Another weekly feature edition. Couple of interesting videos this time! Articles on software development stuff One of the most popular python packages “requests” shipped big changes which break backward compatibility and why its like that. [https://lukasa.co.uk/2016/11/Five_Whys_Requests_212/] Pythonic ways to avoid using for loops and making your code better. [https://medium.com/python-pandemonium/never-write-for-loops-again-91a5a4c84baf#.b7hthkn2a] A lot of great materials about interview questions and problems. Really good stuff to prepare yourself or just to find some new challenge. ... Read more

So it was Sunday late evening and I’m, almost sleeping, randomly cruising through reddit, came to this article. In which author shares his experience of becoming “better programmer”, and I found it some what controversial for me. Generally he takes two common programming problems and compares how he did them in the start of his programming career and now. This is cool short reading itself and 100% educational, but in my opinion for another reason than author thought. ... Read more

Again I’m bringing pile of articles I’ve read this week and found them interesting enough to share. The most interesting things in my opinion were those tensioned discussions all over the internet about Zed Show’s article on python 3. Also I’ve read some materials on CAP theorem, yes, again, to clarify missing moments for me one more time. And I finally found book on Clojure for myself. I twice dismissed Brave and true, its not bad in any sense, but just doesn’t fit my needs. ... Read more

So this is one of the things I actually started running this blog for. I want to collect all written/watched/seen stuff related to software development, IT in general or simply something interesting in one place and post it weekly in sort of digest. Since I’m doing this strictly for myself there will be no language or technology specific stuff, but just anything I’ve read or seen during week and found interesting for myself. ... Read more