A post about Haskell vs. Python readability came onto my radar the other day. It compares two implementations of a trie structure, and after looking upon the Python version I wanted to make my own attempt. I didn't make it to necessarily compare or "battle" against the other solutions, it's ...
So what happened was, I fed up manually uploading pictures I export from Darktable to my Flickr photo stream using the browser's file picker. So I decided to do something about it. The initial idea was to craft a FUSE file system which would automatically upload new files, but this ...
I've been writing code in Kotlin on and off over a few months, and I think I'm now at this unique stage of learning something new when I already have a sense of what's what, but not yet so far advanced so I don't remember beginner's pain points. Here's a ...
You know those crazy books, "Learn whatever programming in 21 days"? I mean, who can afford spending that much time, right? Some background I have a friend who employs a very particular workflow for dealing with his digital photos. It often involves renaming and merging files from different cameras into ...
Did you know that memory is slow compared to CPU? I kinda knew too but recently I've got a revelation from two unrelated sources about how it affects design of programming languages. I also learned about a new thing called "value/reference type dichotomy". I've stumbled upon this term while reading ...