Dave Jones's How user space sucks talk at OLS this year received quite a bit of attention. It is simultaneously discouraging and encouraging to know that so many of our applications behave as ...

Today all the cool languages and runtimes pledge allegiance to UTF-8, including Rust, Go, and Node.js (JavaScript itself prefers UTF-16 for internal encoding). Most code editors, from Visual Studio ...

Python is the language most used for AI, so why not learn both in one book? I have to admit that I am surprised that interest in machine learning or AI general is sufficient to warrant a book that ...

With the popularity of "vibe coding," you might wonder what coding is all about. Python is a popular language to get started with, but if you're on Windows, here's why you're better off learning ...

Sitting around with "a lot of time on my hand," Dutch computer scientist Guido van Rossum decided to take on a fun little side project over Christmas break in 1989: building a new programming language ...