Assorted tech links #4
If you like this sort of content, you can find me over at @pndrej, where I write about things like this more frequently (that is, more than once a year).
I do quite a bit of reading and watching of tech talks and since I often forget things, I decided to turn this into a sort of bookmarking service.
- With Python 2 about to be deprecated, there are a few talks about migration to Python 3. There’s Facebook’s take from PyCon 2018 and Instagram’s from PyCon 2017. Oh and the most recent now - how Pinterest did the same - it’s a bit more about the code differences rather than how they actually migrated.
- I expected a dry talk on code reviews and it ended up being a really nice overview of culture, soft skills, helping newcomers, dealing with anxiety, GTD etc.
- Forget PEP8, version control, reviews or tests. No bash, subprocess run all the things, just good old sloppy code that solves your problem. Super fast and excellent.
- This is a useful reminder that where conditions in SQL are quite different from conditions on joins.
- This is a classic. Why is GNU grep so fast? It does very little and it does this to as few bytes as possible. These advice apply to a much wider number of situations.