August 2023
I am aggregating here some more or less interesting stuff of various IT related materials which I came across this month. Some of them are strictly related to the things I did or am currently doing.
Some thoughts
With the summer season in full force and plenty of outdoor activities to enjoy, there's also exciting news! A new tutorial is coming soon that will teach you how to use FastAPI, CloudRun, and PubSub for message queueing. This tutorial will guide you through the process of setting up your environment, creating API and worker services, and deploying them to CloudRun. By the end of the tutorial, you'll have a working FastAPI application that can handle requests and push messages to a PubSub topic, along with a worker service that can process messages. Stay tuned for more details!
Articles
A case against syntax highlighting
I will argue that syntax highlighting, while aesthetically seductive, moves focus from content to form, and discourages those who look at the code from trying to understand it.
Productivity
Edsger Dijkstra’s One-Day Workweek
At this point, Dijkstra had become the opposite of busy. He spent almost all of his time thinking and recording his ideas. He only came to campus on Tuesdays.
Python
Why Python is amazing...
Great language that every software engineer should know…