Python Beginner
python: how to check if a line is an empty line - Stack Overflow
If you want to ignore lines with only whitespace:
if line.strip():
... do something
The empty string is a False value.
Or if you really want only empty lines:
if line in ['\n', '\r\n']:
... do something
pytest
export PYTEST_ADDOPTS="--color=yes --disable-warnings --capture=no"
pytest --stepwise
links
Asianometry & Dylan Patel – How the Semiconductor Industry Actually Works - YouTube
The Complete Guide to Yakisugi (Shou Sugi Ban)
Python Programming Exercises, Gently Explained
What are some good python codebases to read? - Lobsters
The Composition Over Inheritance Principle
miyuchina/mistletoe: A fast, extensible and spec-compliant Markdown parser in pure Python.
Caveman
From Caveman to Chinaman - Cremieux Recueil
Briefly, seasonality is primarily dependent on three factors. The first is the Earth’s tilt, or obliquity, which determines how hemispheres will be tilted towards the Sun in summer and away in winter. The other two factors are lesser-known, but they are nevertheless important. They are the eccentricity of Earth’s orbit, which is how elliptical it is, and the precession, which is about whether the Earth’s closest approach to the Sun happens in the northern or southern hemisphere’s summer season
Longreads 2023
Sculpting a Python function - by Nobody has time for Python
Data Classes in Python 3.7+ (Guide) – Real Python
Make your own Tower Defense Game with PyGame • Inspired Python
Malcolm Gladwell and William Cohan on What Really Happened to GE
Life Lessons After 10 Years of BetterExplained.com – BetterExplained
‘Story Of Your Life’ Is Not A Time-Travel Story · Gwern.net
What “Drive My Car” Reveals on a Second Viewing
‘Drive My Car’ and ‘Uncle Vanya’: How Intertextuality Enriches a Film
Creating Isometric RPG Game Backgrounds - using Stable Diffusion techniques to create 2D game environments
Great game development is actively harmed by this assumption. Pre-allocating resources at an early stage interrupts the exploratory iteration needed to find the fun in a game. A written plan that stretches months into the future is like a stake through the heart of a good game process. Instead of quickly pivoting to amplify a delightful opportunity found during play testing, you end up blindly barreling towards completion on a some ineffectual paper fantasy.
A Skeleton Key to Ali Smith’s Artful — The Airship, from the Wayback machine
The most beautiful thing about Ali Smith’s book Artful — at once a series of real-life Oxford lectures and a metafictional post-love story — is the way she carries us through her unnamed narrator’s emotional progression
The Guardian review, theliterarysisters, #AliSmith
Google - We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI, discussion at Hacker News
Leaked internal document claims open-source will outcompete Google and OpenAI
the uncomfortable truth is, we aren’t positioned to win this arms race and neither is OpenAI. While we’ve been squabbling, a third faction has been quietly eating our lunch.
Development notes from xkcd’s Gravity and Escape Speed #gamedev
Escape Seed is a large space exploration game created and drawn by Randall Munroe.
This was one of the most ambitious — and most delayed — April Fools comics we’ve ever shipped. The art, physics, story, game logic, and render performance all needed to work together to pull this off. We decided to take the time to get it right.
The game is a spiritual successor to last year’s Gravity space exploration comic. Our goal was to deepen the game with a bigger map and more orbital mechanics challenges to play with.
Andreas Fragner - Writing summaries is more important than reading more books
Ted Chiang’s essay - Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?, comments from Schneier on Security. previously, Ted Chiang - ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
Longreads 2022
Crossing the Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy and American History
The ‘Dead-Internet Theory’ Is Wrong but Feels True - The Atlantic
An app can be a home-cooked meal
Ian Rankin on Patricia Highsmith’s hunger for love and thought
Arundhati Roy, novelist with a sting