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End of an Australian airline era - 2020 May 02
Virgin Australia's collapse brings back memories of the collapse of Ansett Australia. Digging into the details was far more interesting than I expected and led to this post.
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Number pyramid problem - 2020 April 29
Got asked about an interesting mathematics problem the other day, here's some thoughts about it.
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Maker vs manager schedules - 2020 April 27
Due to world events lately I've been able to spend a lot more time on the maker schedule as compared to the manager schedule. This has been amazingly good for my ability to do creative work because I work on especially hard problems that take a lot of uninterrupted time to be able to effectively work on.
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Creating your own user events in pygame - 2020 April 21
Here's how you can create your own user events in Pygame.
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Unicode whitespaces in Python - 2020 April 20
Getting a list of all the Unicode whitespace characters is less straightforward than I would have hoped.
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The HTML abbreviation tag - 2020 April 16
TIL there's a HTML tag for marking up abbreviations that helps readers by showing them how you have defined your abbreviations and acronyms, for example "TIL", that is natively supported by browsers.
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Finding out what a python script imports - 2020 April 16
Finding out what a Python module imports
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Pylint false positives with C extensions - 2020 April 14
Pylint can give you false positives for missing-member errors when C extensions are involved, here's why and what you can do to avoid the issue.
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Have we reached peak Python? - 2020 April 09
Has Python reached the peak of the hype cycle?
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Software workloads in the COVID19 world - 2020 April 05
I thought the coronavirus lockdown would give me substantially more time to write, I was wrong, like other high end software practitioners demand didn't drop anywhere near as much as I'd expected it to.
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