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A flea lost in the haze of existential insanity. In between procrastination sessions I may write some code too.


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Subclassing function types in python

The way callables work in python can be a bit strange. You have methods that take an argument self but only when called from an object and classmethods and static methods etc. Let's take a more in-depth look at how cpython handles all this

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Teaching emacs to copy utf-8 on Mac OS X

Mac OS X comes with a command line tool for maniplating the clipboard called pbcopy. It's usage is simple: you throw stuff in it's stdin and that stuff is copied to the clipboard. This way we can teach emacs to copy stuff to the clipboard with this function

(defun paste-to-osx …

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Streaming Data through HTTP with Haskell

Download and process large files on the fly with haskell

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On the thin line between hacking and engineering.