S.Lott-Software Architect

Apple Books Pivot to Python A Guide for professionals and skilled beginners https://books.apple.com/us/book/pivot-to-python/id1586977675   I...

When I talk about functional programming in Python, folks like to look for place where functional programming isn't appropriate. They la...

A presentation I did recently. https://github.com/slott56/bashing-the-bash Folks were polite and didn't have too many questions. I guess...

I have a very large, static site with 10+ years of stuff about my boat. Most of it is pretty boring.  http://www.itmaybeahack.com/TeamRedCru...

An interesting tweet. The  roadmap has three sections. I'm not sure this is actually complete, or even grouped correctly. It is a very g...

This is your "why wait" invitation. Advanced copies will be available.   IF. And this is a big "if". You have to write a...

Sometimes we call them "Belt and Braces" solutions. As a former suspenders person who switched to belts, the idea of wearing both ...

I'm in regular contact with a few folks who seem remarkably incurious. Seem. Perhaps they're curious about something other than ...

Whew. Chapter rewrites finished. Technical reviews in process. Things are going pretty well. Look for Packt to publish this in the nex...

See https://towardsdatascience.com/why-python-is-not-the-programming-language-of-the-future-30ddc5339b66 . This is an interesting article ...

Here's part of the question: Why didn't COBOL evolve more successfully? FORTRAN, OTOH, has survived precisely because it--and mo...

Audrey Watters ⁦‪@audreywatters‬⁩ Pet peeve: technologists who sneer at the longevity of programming languages like COBOL. Ain...

See " Additional, Related Content ". It's one of the posts here:  https://www.patreon.com/slott .  I think there's spa...

See  https://github.com/slott56/cpx-xmas-ornament You'll need a Circuit Playground Express https://www.adafruit.com/product/3333 Ins...

This can be an interesting exercise. I think it is something that can help people learn to code well. I found this in the LinkedIn Python c...

Here's a functional programming design pattern I uncovered. This may not be news to you, but it was a surprise to me. It cropped up whe...

Let's take another look at F. L. Stevens spreadsheet with agencies and agents. It's -- of course -- an unholy mess. Why? It's di...

Author F. L. Stevens has a hellishly complex (and irregular) spreadsheet with agents, agencies, and query status. (This is how fiction gets ...

I can't emphasize this enough. Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I'll use a spreadsheet.”   Now they ha...

Recent publications elsewhere: Spec to Gherkin to Code