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Asyncio Patterns in Python This post talks about how to go from a slow, synchronous process, to a highly concurrent and lightning fast asyncio process. This article starts from the problem in it’s most basic form and incrementally shows you how to move towards concurrency with Asyncio in Python. SKYLER LEWIS • Shared by CHernandez

Photo by Nic Y-C on UnsplashHey y’all,“How is everybody doing?”It was a kind question to ask, and since Elmo is a kind creature, he asked it. That simple inquiry, originally posted a few weeks ago on Twitter/X, traveled swiftly around the world. Elmo garnered responses that covered everything from ragey (“The world ...

Last year, OpenAI’s ChatGPT introduced gpt-4-vision-preview, a model that allows you to ask questions about an image you upload. For example, you can ask it to describe a scene, a room, or even the contents of your refrigerator. I’ve considered using it as an interior designer, but I digress.Today, we’re going to us...

Have you ever wondered how the likes of Python or Java got their names? Let’s take a look at some programming languages and the story behind how they were named.Before we start — If you’re curious about how things are named, check out my newsletter Why Is That Called That, where I explore the origin of words, phrase...

In the last ~10 or so years, many of the popular scripting languages gained optional static typing: JavaScript (via TypeScript), PHP, Python, even Ruby has something along the lines as far as I know.It’s become quite widespread in each of these languages’ communities, to the point of being considered a best practice...

Comparing Coroutines, by Example, in Kotlin and Python This series of 3 articles compares Python and Kotlin, with a focus on coroutines and generators. It compares, through examples, how coroutines are used in both languages, to read files and perform network requests. MEDIUM.COM • Shared by Carmen Alvarez

This is part I of a series of articles on using Mojo in Advent of Code.Go here for the introduction and table of contents.Performance overviewLet’s start with the headliner. Is Mojo actually as fast as the company advertises it to be? Well, it depends. It’s plenty fast when you spend some time optimizing. After gett...