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Generator Tricks for Systems Programmers (via) David Beazley’s definitive generators tutorial from 2008, updated for Python 3.7 in October 2018.

Posted 9th April 2019 at 5:13 pm

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Highlights from my appearance on the Data Renegades podcast with CL Kao and Dori Wilson - 26th November 2025
Claude Opus 4.5, and why evaluating new LLMs is increasingly difficult - 24th November 2025
sqlite-utils 4.0a1 has several (minor) backwards incompatible changes - 24th November 2025

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