python mixin classes explained without the textbook fog
A Python mixin is a class that exists only to be inherited from. It does not stand on its own. The mixin contributes a behavior or two, and a separate class on…
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kotlin static site generators worth knowing in 2026
If you have ever tried to publish a small docs site from a JVM build and felt the language choice limited you, the five tools below are here to prove otherwise. The…
One author’s side project turned 434,201 sudokus into nine games
Most of the source material I have read on constraint programming stops at the paper. It scores which propagation scheme clears a board without branching, sorts difficulty bands, and is done. The…
Why networking interview prep lists the wrong answers
Most linux interview prep lists the same 20 networking questions, with the same textbook answers, and most of them are wrong about which questions come up in a real interview. I have…
What I learned writing CLAUDE.md files for my Python projects
I burned about three hours one Saturday trying to get Claude Code to stop making the same AWS Bedrock mistake. Every session, it would prefix my model ID with the local region…
simplex chat asks its own users to fund the next year
Privacy-focused messaging apps have a recurring problem. The people who care about privacy are not the same people who pay for software. Most users expect the app to be free, the server…
qt designer turns pyqt layout work into drag and drop
There are two ways to build a PyQt GUI. You can hand-write every line of layout code, run it, look at the result, fiddle with a stretch factor, run it again, and…
How I built a hybrid book recommender with Python and Streamlit
Audiobooks are a problem of too much choice. Audible’s catalogue runs into the tens of thousands of titles across self-help, business, fiction, fantasy, technology, history, and several more genres I have never…
Why the Pixel 10 is the smarter buy compared to the Pixel 11
Look, the Pixel 11 leaks are everywhere right now and everyone is acting like the world is ending if you don’t preorder one. Put the phone down. The Pixel 10 is sitting…
Eight free Linux duplicate finders ranked by real cost
LinuxLinks published an updated round-up this month of the eight free GUI tools that handle the most common chore most Linux users do not realize they have: cleaning up the duplicate files…