S.Lott-Software Architect

As the olds do, I reminisce sometimes. Not often. Let me rewind the memory tapes a back to 1967 or '68. (What a dumb metaphor for folks ...

Apple's freebie tools -- Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Garage Band, etc. -- are wonderful things. I really like Numbers. I'm tolerant of ...

See Spreadsheets, COBOL, and schema-driven file processing , etc. for some history on this project. Also, see Stingray-Reader for the curre...

As an author with many books on Python, I'm captivated by people's hot takes on why Python is so epically bad. Really Bad. Uselessly...

It may help to read  Python is a Bad Programming Language , but it's not very useful.  I shouldn't be tempted by click-bait headline...

Here's the code. def get_categories(file): """ Get categories. """ verify_file(file) ...

I'll get to legacy software. First, however, some backstory on observability. Sailors will sometimes create "Float Plans". Lik...