blog - Some notes on things I find interesting and important.

This Jupyter notebook walks through the process of creating a choropleth map of the world in Python using the Matplotlib Basemap Toolkit.

From OSCON 2014: Is it possible to imagine a future where “concert programmers” are as common a fixture in the worlds auditoriums as concert pianists? In thi...

big-list-of-naughty-strings - The Big List of Naughty Strings is a list of strings which have a high probability of causing issues when used as user-input data.

I love reading postmortems. They’re educational, but unlike most educational docs, they tell an entertaining story. I’ve spent a decent chunk of time …

In 1943 the psychologist Abraham Maslow proposed the concept of a 'hierarchy of needs' to describe human motivation. Most often portrayed as a pyramid, with the more fundamental needs occupying the largest space in the bottom layers, his theory states that only in the fulfilment of the lower-level needs can one hope to progress to…

Here’s a conversation I keep having: Someone: Did you hear that Facebook/Google uses a giant monorepo? WTF! Me: Yeah! It’s really convenient, don’t …

Il y a quelques jours, un ami m'a demandé de jeter un oeil à un problème qu'il recontrait: alors qu'il analysait des données de donneespubliques.meteofrance.fr dans un IPython notebook, en utilisant la fantastique lib requests, il a été confronté à un bug étrange:

Mon soucis c'est que ma …