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2015
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What RESTful actually means

If you do web development, you’ve probably heard of REST. But if you’re like me, you usually just pretend to know what it is, and nod politely when someone asks you if what you’re making is RESTful. I use HTTP, err, that means it’s RESTful right? Recently, I decided to take the plunge and actually find out what this…

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Why Python 3 Exists

This month I invited to Q&A at PuPPy [https://youtu.be/2XviXtxWKO8?list=PL4S0lvhXvdhIV2C28Ia_DeIeloBrsQBOW] (the Puget Sound Python users group) that eventually led to me explaining why Python 3 came into existence and the whole string/bytes deal. I ended up receiving a compliment on the explanation which

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Why I no longer use MVC frameworks

神の領域10作品まとめページに戻るはじめに総合まとめと称して、100作品とか50作品とかのまとめ記事を書いているが、作品が多すぎて選びきれない!候補10本くらいに絞ってくれ!という要望からこの記事を作成している人間は選択肢が多すぎると逆に選...

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Files Are Hard

I haven't used a desktop email client in years. None of them could handle the volume of email I get without at least occasionally corrupting my mailbox. Pine, Eudora, and outlook have all corrupted my inbox, forcing me to restore from backup. How is it that desktop mail clients are less reliable than gmail, even…