Flow - The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Have you ever heard about the concept of flow? For example, “I’m often in flow when I’m programming.”I recently read Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience written in 1990 by Mihaly...
View ArticleI fixed a bug in Python!
In the fall, we found a bug in the unittest module in Python. In January, my PR was merged onto the cpython master!
View ArticleHow do Unix pipes work?
Pipes are cool! We saw how handy they are in a previous blog post. Let’s look at a typical way to use the pipe operator. We have some output, and we want to look at the first lines of the output. Let’s...
View ArticleBooks I read in 2020
Below is a list of the 23 books I read this year. Those in bold were my favourites. See also what I read in 2018 and 2019.Flow by Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiSuper Pumped by Mike IsaacEducated by Tara...
View ArticleWaiting for dependencies in tests
As part of my development workflow, I usually run some integration tests. An integration test means that code interacts with some outside dependency. This could be a temporary Postgres server in a...
View Articletil.vegardstikbakke.com
Simon Willison and others (Josh Branchaud, David Winterbottom) have started posting their Today I Learned snippets, or TILs for short.Occasionally over the past couple years, I’ve noted down a useful...
View ArticleBooks I read in 2021
Below is a list of the 12 books I read this year, spanning 4244 pages (according to Goodreads). This is less than 2018 (16), 2019 (40), and 2020 (23), but considering this is my first full year with a...
View ArticleMy open source contributions
I’ve worked full time as a software engineer for around two and a half years, since May 2019. Almost all of the code I’ve written has been in closed-source repos, but occasionally I’ve ran into...
View ArticleBooks I read in 2022
I read 14 books this year, spanning 5878 pages. Not too bad with two kids of 0 and 2 years.I’m trying something new this year, so instead of just listing out the books I’m also going to group them and...
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