Month summary — December 2023

When I reflect on examples of great URL design I’ve encountered through the years — URLs that, when I saw them, I paused and thought “Wow, that’s really neat!” — these are a few that come to mind.

A study of Google’s code review tooling (Critique), AI-powered improvements, and recent statistics.

We estimate that by 2025, Signal will require approximately $50 million dollars a year to operate—and this is very lean compared to other popular messaging apps that don’t respect your privacy.

Your phone’s ability to identify any song it listens to is pure technological magic. In this article, I’ll show you how one of the most popular apps, Shazam, does it.

Slack’s Workforce Index uncovers new findings on how to structure the workday to maximize employee productivity, well-being and satisfaction.

Graham writes that he “once saw a recruiting ad for Microsoft with a big picture of a door. Work for us, the premise was, and we’ll give you a place to work where you can actually get work done.

In general, though, unless you really know what you’re doing with advanced descriptor use cases, or you have the very specific use case of turning a pre-existing attribute into a method, you probably should be avoiding property, and writing descriptors in general, in your Python code.

In this blog post, I’m going to review some best practices for configuring Python web servers like Gunicorn, Uvicorn, and Hypercorn. We’ll recap the architecture of all the bits of software that sit between your Python code and your users. We’ll also touch on verification methods like load testing to check that your configuration stands up against some user traffic.

Terminal Trove curates and showcases all things in the terminal such as command line interface tools (CLI), text mode interface tools (TUI), developer tools and more no matter what platform or medium

Resume Matcher is an open source, free tool to improve your resume. It works by using language models to compare and rank resumes with job descriptions.