How Far Can a Little Focus Take You?

Flow is the result of our effort. The muse shows up when we do the work, not the other way around.”
— Seth Godin

https://reasonablyrich.com/when-was-the-last-time-you-truly-focused-on-a-task

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#productivity #focus #welfare

The math behind Python’s slices

Python’s slices are rather straightforward, once you understand a couple basic concepts about how they function...

https://tusharsadhwani.medium.com/the-math-behind-pythons-slices

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#python #math #slice

How to Improve MongoDB Performance

Indexes help to handle slow queries. If there weren’t indexes, the database would scan all documents in a collection...

https://enlear.academy/how-to-improve-mongodb-performance

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#indexes #performance #mongodb

15 Useful VS Code Shortcuts to Boost Your Productivity

When writing code, we often require certain formatting actions, and a lot of them are supported by VS Code itself...

https://betterprogramming.pub/15-useful-vscode-shortcuts-to-boost-your-productivity

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#productivity #vscode #tips

Picturing Git: Conceptions and Misconceptions

Far too many developers use Git without understanding it. It's time to straighten out your thinking about what Git is, and isn't.

https://www.biteinteractive.com/picturing-git-conceptions-and-misconceptions/

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#learn #git #misc

An optimal algorithm for bounded random integers

What if I told you that Big Random Number has lied to us for decades, and we have been played for absolute fools?

https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/39143

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#swift #apple

GitHub Copilot Generated Insecure Code in 40% of Circumstances During Experiment

https://www.theinsaneapp.com/2021/09/github-copilot-generated-40-percent-insecure-code.html

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#github #copilot

The Descent to C

This article attempts to give a sort of ‘orientation tour’ for people whose previous programming background is in high-level languages such as Java or Python, and who now find that they need or want to learn C.

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/cdescent/

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#c #learn #overview

💫 This repo has X stars

Click Star ⭐️ to see it in action :)

https://github.com/narze/THIS_REPO_HAS_X_STARS

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#github #extra

How we built an auto-scalable Minecraft server for 1000+ players

Raising Minecraft world capacity by spreading players across multiple synchronized server processes.

https://www.worldql.com/posts/2021-08-worldql-scalable-minecraft/

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#games #devops #minecraft

STR32-C. Do not pass a non-null-terminated character sequence to a library function that expects a string

https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/STR32-C

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#c #memory #learn

GitHub's npm Gave Away A Package Name While It Was In Use

GitHub recognized that it hadn't revisited the dispute policy for npm packages since March.

https://www.theinsaneapp.com/2021/08/github-npm-package.html

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#github #nodejs

Stop using loops. Do this instead.

Loops are commonly used in code by programmers. However, many fail to realize how taxing they are on a program’s performance speed...

https://python.plainenglish.io/stop-using-loops-do-this-instead

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#python #loop #performance

Programming For Hours - 5 Tips To Stay Productive

Here are a few very common ways to stay focused and attentive while your hands are on keyboard for a code...

https://dev.to/jaskirat1325/programming-for-hours-5-tips-to-stay-productive

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#productivity #focus #wealth

The Docker Container Lifecycle

Learn how a Container works based on its Lifecycle state and the Docker cli commands to manage them effectively.

https://dev.to/alubhorta/the-docker-container-lifecycle-docker-made-easy-3

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#docker #tutorial #devops

Textual

Textual is a TUI (Text User Interface) framework for Python inspired by modern web development.

https://github.com/willmcgugan/textual

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#python #library #terminal

Kids can't use computers

"...and this is why it should worry you"

http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/

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#meta #internet

The Programming Interview from Hell

This post describes what happens when a 0.1x programmer goes to a 10x programmer interview.

https://new.pythonforengineers.com/blog/the-programming-interview-from-hell/

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#humor #interview

Cloudscraper

A simple Python module to bypass Cloudflare's anti-bot page (also known as "I'm Under Attack Mode", or IUAM), implemented with Requests.

https://pythonrepo.com/repo/VeNoMouS-cloudscraper-python-web-crawling

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#python #webscraping #cloudflare #captcha

Why sequential identifiers are a bad idea

A real example of what could go wrong when using sequential ids on a public shared image hosting platform.

https://telegra.ph/Heres-how-we-got-your-credit-card-number-or-Why-sequential-identifiers-are-a-bad-idea-09-07

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#security #misc

Dockerize your projects in Visual Studio Code

While at first glance this seems to be easy, there are a number of considerations you need to take into account when working on multi-component applications...

https://piethein.medium.com/dockerize-your-projects-in-visual-studio-code

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#docker #vscode #workflow