A blog about software engineering, programming languages and technical tinkering
Posted by Simon Larsén in Blog
I recently got myself a Dell XPS 15 9520 to replace my aging laptop. It's highly Linux-compatible and just following the official installation guide got me 90% of the way of having a well-behaved Arch Linux laptop. One big thing wasn't working, though: 3D graphics!
Posted by Simon Larsén in Reviews
About a month ago I signed myself up to do a talk at a Python meetup hosted by HiQ. I brazenly set my topic as Under the Hood of CPython, thinking I had sufficient understanding of its inner workings to produce a riveting talk. As I started preparing the talk …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Programming
At one point or another, every Python developer or hobbyist encounters the word CPython. For example, the dis module states that it exposes an "implementation detail of the CPython interpreter". What does that mean? Some ask themselves how CPython differs from Python, and then they move on with their lives …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Programming
The modern day ternary operator is well-known to most Pythonistas:
<expr_if_true> if <condition> else <expr_if_false>
It's officially known as a conditional expression and was introduced back in Python 2.5 with PEP 308. Some like it, some don't, and while discussing it with a colleague of mine he mentioned that …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Blog
I don't write this blog in hopes that it will get a lot of traction. I don't market it, I don't try to optimize it for SEO and I I don't even tell my friends and coworkers about it. Although I would of course be delighted to hear someone who …