Taking a break from writing up my notes into blog posts to share a few general thoughts about the conference.
General feeling: Woohooooo! This was a fantastic week, I learnt a ton and met an amazing amount of awesome people. If you're here because I gave you one of my …
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The easy way to write an API is to use your current implementation, but then you expose implementation details which makes it harder to change or improve the implementation in the future.
In software development, you shouldn't think up a big design upfront, except for …
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Python was created in 1991 -- it's 20 years old now! Lots of time for cruft.
Python 3 is backwards incompatible. Stuff will break. Hopefully the migration will not be grudging, the main thing for most programs will likely be unicode …
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Simon Willison is the co-founder lanyrd.com, a social website for conferences.
Using cryptographic signing for various things can ensure that they haven't been tampered with, for instance a cookie or an unsubscribe …
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Performance (e.g. a request should return in less than 5 seconds) is not the same as scalability (e.g. a request should ALWAYS return in less than 5 seconds). Fortunately, it turns out that when …
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