Bye, Bye, Google
I spent this past weekend de-Google-ifying my life and, despite my expectations, it wasn't too hard to do.
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I spent this past weekend de-Google-ifying my life and, despite my expectations, it wasn't too hard to do.
This is the first in a series of posts in which I'm going to go through the process of building a web application (and its web server) from scratch in Python. For the purposes of this series, I'm going to solely rely on the Python standard library and I'm going to ignore the WSGI standard.
I had originally shared a version of this post with a small, private mailing list, but then I figured there'd be no harm in sharing it with a larger audience so here it is.
I'm currently working on a macOS app that's built with Racket and allows the user to write small scripts to process and filter some data. While Racket is definitely my preferred language and I could easily use it for these scripts, my target audience for this app would probably appreciate a more familiar language. I…