Yoshi: Let me cut that chocolate bar in half. Sempi: Why? Yoshi: Because it is too much. Sempi: I want too much. 

Fine summer evening, I’m taking Sempi on a walk. He’s carrying a flash light and shining it on every piece of object on the side walk and asking me questions. Sempi: Appa, what is this? Me: It’s a rock. Sempi: Oh. What is this? Me: That’s a piece of paper. Sempi: Oh. What is this? Me: It’s a cigarette. Actually it’s a cigarette butt. Sempi: Huh? Do you keep it in the butt?...

Introduction: FuzzyFinder is a popular feature available in decent editors to open files. The idea is to start typing partial strings from the full path and the list of suggestions will be narrowed down to match the desired file. Examples: Vim (Ctrl-P) Sublime Text (Cmd-P) This is an extremely useful feature and it’s quite easy to implement. Problem Statement: We have a collection of strings (filenames). We’re trying to filter down that collection based on user input....

Me: Do you like Superman? Sempi: No Me: How about Batman? Sempi: No Me: Who do you like? Sempi: Amma Me: Aww. Do you like Appa? Sempi: Yeah (matter of fact voice). Sempi: I like you when you’re at work. I don’t like you when you’re home. Me: o_O

Pycast - Weekly screencasts on Python and DataScience by Matt Harrison. Matt is bootstrapping pycast through kickstarter. I’m excited about it because I’ve attended Matt’s tutorials and came away feeling leveled up on my Python chops. Nearly 5 years ago I was getting started in Python and learning on my own by writing small scripts to automate silly stuff. I wasn’t writing anything adventurous and I was looking for a way to improve my skills....