2019#26 Readings of the Week
3 minutes read | 511 words by Ruben BerenguelA bit of Python, some more Rust and the usual randomness. The first one looks tasty.
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Deconstructing the perfect Patty Melt
I’m a big fan of Saveur. Good recipes and pretty good food history writing. Also, our favorite coffee shop used to have a patty melt sandwich, although it was chicken. And very good.
The simple words that save lives
Choosing the right words can make all the difference. Just like the concept of metaphor building mentioned in Readings of the Week 18, having the right word can make it be (or not) the last word.
Face Detection with Actix Web
A very feature-complete example of using Actix and linking it with a highly non-trivial system. One of the best technical writings I’ve read lately!
Exploring your data with just 1 line of Python
To be fair, the line is after all importing a package, but the results you can get from this import show promise. Added to my toolbox.
The Church of Interruption
This… was pretty mind blowing. I wasn’t aware, and I’m not even sure what kind I am: I nod a lot, and try to keep people explaining stuff… But I’m also prone to stopping if I know what they are telling me. I need to be more careful and find it out.
Making a Case: Rust for Python developers
Although the example comparison is not fair at all (if you write a custom data processor in Scala or Python, they’ll also beat Spark, that’s not the goal of Spark) I also think Rust is a future for data processing at high speed.
Why The Fugate Family Are Literally “The Blue People Of Kentucky”
The world is weirder than you think.
Fold in Python
I’ve been writing a lot of Python lately, and I’m always finding myself reaching for the standard approaches I’d use in Scala. Maps (the fact that map creates a map object still baffles me), folds, filters. Here’s a short post on fold in Python from a Haskell point of view.
🔊 Empires of EVE
I have always enjoyed reading the stories about EVE online and similar (did you know Yannis Varoufakis worked for Valve?). Also, Simon Wardley mentioned recently he would think any EVE online CEO to be a very good candidate for real world manager. So in the end this audiobook was pretty entertaining, although it’s somewhat hard to follow at times, as an audiobook.
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