#426: What's New in PyScript [August 2023]

You're adding type hints to your Python code, your editor is happy, autocomplete is working great. But then you switch tools and suddenly there are red squiggles everywhere. Who decides what a float annotation actually means? Or whether passing None where an int is expected shoul ...  Show more

Digital humanities sounds niche, until you realize it can mean a searchable archive of U.S. amendment proposals, Irish folklore, or pigment science in ancient art. Today I’m talking with David Flood from Harvard’s DARTH team about an unglamorous problem: What happens when the gra ...  Show more

Fundamentals of Operating Systems Course https://oscourse.win Looks like fedora is compiling cpython with the -o3 flag, which does aggressive function inlining among other optimizations. This seems to improve python benchmarks performance by at most 1.16x at a cost of an ex ...

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Andrew Lisowski about working on Descript, web streams vs local storage, using state machines, writing CSS with Radix, monorepos, and more. Show Notes 00:35 Welcome 01:07 What is Descript? Descript | All-in-one ...  Show more

Process is important. This show is dedicated to examples of non-developer tasks that can be improved by coding scripts. Join Scott and Wes for a deep dive into automation magic. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 02:11 Brought to you by Sentry.io. 03:02 FFmpeg, a tool fo ...  Show more

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott try to stump each other with JavaScript and CSS interview style questions including CSS contain, naming the 7 parts of Houdini, what ARIA stands for, 5 limitations of serverless, and more. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 01:31 Syntax Brought ...  Show more