stream of coding

byte-sized coding nuggets

(Python) Fixing pip

1 min read

New GitHub RSA SSH key

1 min read

(Javascript) Arrow functions

2 min read

GitHub Actions for ECR

2 min read

(git) Stash one file

1 min read

The Jumping Julia maze

2 min read

The Expert

1 min read

Lovey dovey easter eggs

1 min read

(Excel) SQL queries

2 min read

Guest post?

3 min read

The layoff domino effect

2 min read

Naming things

1 min read

(Python) Testing for keywords

1 min read

Two-year blogaversary

2 min read

(Python) 2D coordinate systems

2 min read

(Python) The missing cmp

1 min read

(Python) Extract the sign

1 min read

How to convert videos

2 min read

Giving thanks

1 min read

GitHub Actions for AWS

3 min read

(git) Managing profiles

2 min read

Race conditions

2 min read

Factorio for Nintendo Switch

1 min read

Division notation

1 min read

The Light Phone

1 min read

Supporting private mode

2 min read

Cheat detection in chess

3 min read

(git) ~ vs. ^

2 min read

(Excel) The epoch, part III

3 min read

Number systems

3 min read

(Python) One-liner functions

1 min read

Cursed programming

1 min read

(Excel) The epoch

1 min read

(Excel) How dates are stored

2 min read

Cowboy coding

1 min read

Social Security benefits

3 min read

Typing speed records

1 min read

Error messages

2 min read

DIY NYT Spelling Bee

2 min read

How to compress images

1 min read

How automation scales

3 min read

Happy numbers

1 min read

Availability

2 min read

(Python) Slice assignment

1 min read

Zero-indexing

2 min read

Non-inclusive tech language

3 min read

Good commit messages

2 min read

Sudoku twists

3 min read

New in Python 3.11

1 min read

Technology vs. politics

1 min read

Awk

2 min read

Push protection on GitHub

1 min read

P = NP

1 min read

The knapsack problem

3 min read

Daylight saving time

3 min read

JetBrains is fantastic

1 min read

Veridical paradoxes

3 min read

(SQL) Alphabetizing strings

3 min read

Songs about programming

1 min read

Rebases on GitHub

4 min read

Some thoughts on Wordle

4 min read

Dumb phone benefits

2 min read

(Python) Float equality

2 min read

(Python) Gotcha: Concurrent list iteration and modification

3 min read

(Python) Leading Zeros

1 min read

One-year blogaversary

1 min read

(Python) Gotcha: Closures in defaultdicts

4 min read

(Python) Padding strings

1 min read

Balancing Parentheses

1 min read

The Collatz conjecture

1 min read

Easter eggs for programmers

2 min read

FreeCell combinatorics

3 min read

Specs for a refrigerator

2 min read

Pancake sorting

3 min read

Coding outside of English

2 min read

(Python) Adding bundles to your packages

2 min read

(Python) Deepcopy's second parameter

1 min read

Outages, Wat!

1 min read

(Python) The ~ operator

2 min read

Finding the right expression

3 min read

(Python) Slicing

1 min read

Ciphers

2 min read

Linter != Formatter

2 min read

(Python) Alphabetizing strings

1 min read

(Docker) Spin up a database

1 min read

(Python) The Operator Library

2 min read

(Python) Topological sort

1 min read

(MySQL) Filesort

2 min read

(git) Changing commit date

1 min read

Stacking bricks

2 min read

(Javascript) SetInterval musings

2 min read

Is it a prime number? The regex version

2 min read

(SQL) Finding rows with the second-highest value

3 min read

(Ruby) Counting

2 min read

(Ruby) Conditional Assignment

2 min read

Knight's Tours

5 min read

Masks, regexes, and benchmarks

2 min read

(Python) The Many Flavors

3 min read

(Javascript) Gotcha: Sorting numbers

1 min read

(Ruby) Reversible migrations

1 min read

(PostgreSQL) Single quotes or double?

4 min read

ZIP codes are not integers

2 min read

(SQL) Week offsets

5 min read

(Ruby) The & Operator

2 min read

(Ruby) && or and?

2 min read

(Ruby) Gotcha: Comparing Time

2 min read

(Python) Built-In Constants

4 min read

(Python) A Comparison to the Javascript Promise

3 min read

(Python) repr() vs. str()

2 min read

ELI5: Async Programming

3 min read

(Python) Being Silly: Subclassing NoneType

1 min read

(Python 2) Gotcha: Hidden hasattr() Exceptions

3 min read

(CSS) Gotcha: Tiny Horizontal Scroll When Using 100vw

4 min read

(npm) isntall and verison

1 min read

(Vue) Component Architecture

4 min read

(Vue) Performance-Testing Games

6 min read

(Python 3) Human-Readable Numbers

2 min read

(Python 3) Single-Dispatch Generic Functions

1 min read