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The links below jump you to the section for that year, where you can jump direct to an article or click any year or month heading to see article summaries.

2024
8 posts
2023
18 posts
2022
10 posts
2021
15 posts
2019
3 posts
2018
1 post
2016
7 posts
2015
10 posts
2014
2 posts
2013
(25 posts)

Articles for 2024

November: What’s New in Python 3.13 - Performance Improvements
Sat 16 Nov
October: What’s New in Python 3.13 - Intepreter Updates
Tue 29 Oct; BlazingMQ: Client/Broker Protocol
Sun 20 Oct; BlazingMQ: Hands On
Thu 10 Oct
July: BlazingMQ: Clustering and Message Flow
Wed 3 Jul
June: BlazingMQ: Introduction
Thu 27 Jun
March: What’s New in Python 3.12 - Library Changes
Sun 17 Mar
February: What’s New in Python 3.12 - F-Strings and Interpreter Changes
Tue 6 Feb

Articles for 2023

December: What’s New in Python 3.12 - Type Hint Improvements
Sun 3 Dec
July: All Go: Loose Ends
Tue 25 Jul; All Go: Building and Testing
Fri 7 Jul
June: All Go: Concurrency
Fri 23 Jun; All Go: Closures, Deferred Actions and Generics
Thu 15 Jun; All Go: Methods and Interfaces
Sat 10 Jun; All Go: Basic Semantics
Sat 3 Jun
May: Uncovering Rust: Closures, Iterators and Smart Pointers
Sun 28 May; Uncovering Rust: Build and Packaging
Fri 12 May
April: Uncovering Rust: Traits and Generics
Tue 25 Apr; Uncovering Rust: Errors and Methods
Sun 23 Apr; Uncovering Rust: Loops and Collections
Mon 17 Apr; HTTP/3 in Practice — HTTP/3
Thu 13 Apr
March: HTTP/3 in Practice — QUIC
Sat 25 Mar
February: What’s New in Python 3.11 - Improved Modules III
Fri 10 Feb
January: What’s New in Python 3.11 - Improved Modules II
Sun 22 Jan; What’s New in Python 3.11 - New and Improved Modules
Tue 17 Jan; What’s New in Python 3.11 - Type Hint Improvements
Tue 3 Jan

Articles for 2022

December: What’s New in Python 3.11 - Exception Improvements
Sat 31 Dec; What’s New in Python 3.11 - Performance Improvements
Fri 16 Dec; What’s New in Python 3.10 - Library Changes
Fri 9 Dec
November: What’s New in Python 3.10 - Other New Features
Fri 18 Nov; What’s New in Python 3.10 - Pattern Matching
Sun 6 Nov; What’s New in Python 3.9 - Library Changes
Sat 5 Nov
October: What’s New in Python 3.9 - New Features
Thu 27 Oct
July: What’s New in Python 3.8 - Library Changes
Wed 6 Jul
June: What’s New in Python 3.8 - New Features
Fri 10 Jun; What’s New in Python 3.7 - Library Updates
Sun 5 Jun

Articles for 2021

October: What’s New in Python 3.7 - New Features
Wed 27 Oct
August: What’s New in Python 3.6 - Module Updates
Sun 22 Aug
July: What’s New in Python 3.6 - More New Features
Wed 28 Jul; What’s New in Python 3.6 - New Features
Sun 25 Jul; What’s New in Python 3.5 - Module Improvements
Sun 11 Jul
May: What’s New in Python 3.5 - Other Additions
Mon 10 May; What’s New in 3.5 - Type Hinting
Sun 2 May
April: What’s New in Python 3.5 - Coroutines
Sun 18 Apr; What’s New in Python 3.4 - Part 2
Fri 9 Apr; What’s New in Python 3.4 - Part 1
Sun 4 Apr
March: What’s New in Python 3.3 - New Features
Sun 7 Mar; What’s New in Python 3.3 - More New Features
Sun 7 Mar
February: What’s New in Python 3.2
Sun 7 Feb; What’s New in Python 3.1
Mon 1 Feb
January: What’s New in Python 3.0
Sun 24 Jan

Articles for 2019

June: Uncovering Rust: Types and Matching
Sat 22 Jun; Uncovering Rust: References and Ownership
Tue 18 Jun; Tracing MacOS Filesystem Events
Tue 11 Jun

Articles for 2018

January: FTP Considered Painful
Sun 7 Jan

Articles for 2016

September: Website Maintenance on the Move
Mon 19 Sep
August: Brexit, or Brexit Not — There Is No Try
Thu 4 Aug; Responsive Design
Tue 2 Aug
July: The State of Python Coroutines: Python 3.5
Wed 13 Jul; The State of Python Coroutines: asyncio - Callbacks vs. Coroutines
Tue 5 Jul
June: The State of Python Coroutines: Introducing asyncio
Thu 16 Jun; The State of Python Coroutines: yield from
Fri 10 Jun

Articles for 2015

October: Fighting Fonts on Mobile
Thu 8 Oct
August: C++ Streaming Pains
Thu 20 Aug; Validating UK Postcodes
Tue 18 Aug
July: Time zones and cron
Tue 21 Jul
May: HTTP/2
Fri 8 May
April: C++11: Library Changes: Pointers, Randoms, Wrappers and more
Fri 24 Apr; C++11: Library Changes: Threading, Tuples, Hashing and Regexes
Mon 13 Apr
March: An Unhealthy Environment
Wed 25 Mar; Hash Collision Fun
Fri 20 Mar
February: Agile Government
Thu 19 Feb

Articles for 2014

December: Netflix Neutrality
Fri 19 Dec
January: C++11: Other language changes
Sun 19 Jan

Articles for 2013

November: C++11: Template changes
Tue 26 Nov
September: C++11: Function and method changes
Tue 17 Sep; C++11: Type inference and constant expressions
Wed 4 Sep
August: Process groups and sessions
Wed 21 Aug
July: C++11: Initialization
Mon 15 Jul; Passwords: You’re doing it wrong
Thu 11 Jul; C++11: Move Semantics
Tue 9 Jul; Chunky requests
Wed 3 Jul
June: Tuning in the static
Fri 14 Jun; Just like old
Wed 5 Jun; Jinja Ninja
Sat 1 Jun
May: Hooked on Github
Thu 16 May; May Day! May Day!
Wed 1 May
April: Python destructor drawbacks
Tue 23 Apr; When is a closure not a closure?
Wed 10 Apr; The Dark Arts of C++ Streams
Mon 8 Apr; Function Template Fun
Wed 3 Apr
March: Git in “almost does what you expect” shocker
Mon 18 Mar; File Capabilities In Linux
Mon 11 Mar
February: (A)IEEE, maths!
Mon 25 Feb; Herding children with a python
Thu 14 Feb; SO_REUSEADDR on Windows
Fri 1 Feb
January: Sharing pthreads locks between processes
Thu 31 Jan; apport in a storm
Tue 29 Jan; Bash expansion weirdness
Fri 25 Jan