Articles by calpaterson
121

Helsinki Hacker News Meetup (calpaterson.com)

2

The box-tickers shall inherit the Earth (spectator.com)

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Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider (calpaterson.com)

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Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider (calpaterson.com)

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An oral history of Bank Python (2021) (calpaterson.com)

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David Webb (Webb-site.com) has died (telegraph.co.uk)

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The Python Software Foundation is facing significant financial challenges (pyfound.blogspot.com)

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Preserving Digital Memory at the Festival of Floppies (cam.ac.uk)

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To win, the Tories should be the party of motorists (spectator.co.uk)

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4-week headache after 60 pints of beer (thelancet.com)

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Frederick Forsyth, author who reinvented the thriller with The Day of the Jackal (telegraph.co.uk)

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PyPI Organizations (2023) (pypi.org)

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The number one rule of risk, and why it matters to your games business (2013) (gamesbrief.com)

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Ask HN: Who else is doing a local meetup? (We are, in Helsinki)

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Tell HN: Helsinki HN Coffee Morning

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From Shell to Excel – with a little bit of HTTPS (csvbase.com)

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DuckDB Isn't Just Fast (csvbase.com)

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DuckDB Isn't Just Fast (csvbase.com)

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DuckDB Isn't Just Fast (csvbase.com)

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Tools you might not know: DuckDB (plus: the magic of WASM) (csvbase.com)

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You can't just assume UTF-8 (csvbase.com)

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Gmux – raise the PRs for a single feature across multiple repos (github.com/samlader)

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Caching secrets of the HTTP elders, part 1 (csvbase.com)

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Client libraries are better when they have no API (csvbase.com)

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It looks like a product but is a subscription (2021) (calpaterson.com)

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Is Tesla more valuable than Toyota? (calpaterson.com)

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Is Tesla more valuable than Toyota? (calpaterson.com)

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Software Mitchell Baker logs off for good as CEO of Firefox maker Mozilla (theregister.com)

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Stepping – Incremental View Maintenance for Python (stepping.site)

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Threat modelling case study: bicycles (calpaterson.com)

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YAML: Probably not so great after all (arp242.net)

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Simple data pipeline powertools: SQLite, Pandas, gnuplot and friends (csvbase.com)

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I didn't write any JavaScript, and other shortcuts (csvbase.com)

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Volvo goes SUV-only in UK as all saloon and estate cars axed (autocar.co.uk)

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Nuts, Bolts and Meccano (selmec.org.uk)

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Pandas 2.0 (github.com/pandas-dev)

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Parquet: An efficient, binary file format for table data (csvbase.com)

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How does it know I want CSV? – An HTTP trick (csvbase.com)

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Take the tools out of 'Data', but don't take the data out of the tools (csvbase.com)

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No general method to detect fraud (calpaterson.com)