Bio and Publications

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Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Letter to Mom -- What Is This "Computer Programming" Thing?

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Happy birthday, mom. Glad to see you're still doing well, avoiding the complications of COVID-19. You asked what it was I did for a livi...
Wednesday, June 16, 2021

SQL linting — this sounds cool

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  https://www.pythonpodcast.com/sqlfluff-sql-linter-episode-318/
Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Architectural Boundaries: Which Package/Module/Class Owns That Responsibility?

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 The SOLID design principles beat the design boundary issue to death. Here are the principles in my preferred order. (See  https://www.linke...
Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Real Math (symbolic math, like mathematicians do) and a spreadsheet-like feedback loop

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See  https://slott56.github.io/replacing-a-spreadsheet/ . This document is really exciting (to me). This is still shaky -- I'm still lea...
Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Python's Protocol Annotation vs. Duck Typing

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Let's talk about profound confusion. I got an email with a subject of this, "Python's Protocol Reduces Reliance on Duck Typing...
Tuesday, April 20, 2021

OpenMarine and Signal-K

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 I heard about these less than a week ago. https://openmarine.net/openplotter https://github.com/openplotter/pypilot https://signalk.org/ins...
Tuesday, April 6, 2021

A 5-point framework for Python performance management

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See A 5-Point Framework For Python Performance Management . It seems straight-forward to me. Have goals. Measure your ability to meet them. ...