Nowadays when someone uses the word optimization they usually mean optimization for execution time, unless they've explicitly stated that they are going to optimize for GPU memory consumption, network traffic, etc.

In this tutorial, I will be explaining how to fetch data asynchronously from an external API using web technologies like AJAX, Fetch API and Async/Await.

Last month, while reading Harvard Business Review’s book On Strategy, I came across the concept of a Big Hairy Audacious Goal - often shorthanded as BHAG - which refers to life-goals that are beyond the limits of what seems possible.

Learn about the latest version of Pytest 3.6.0, Qt for Python, MongoDB 4.0.0 rc0, Pipenv, and learn 15 tips to enhance your Github flow! You can either listen to the podcast (~27 minutes) or read the show notes.

Are you still holding out on using Python 3 as your primary version for programming with Python? Are you confused or afraid of installing it in your system? Have no fear! This article will show you how to easily install the latest version of the Python 3 interpreter, including for iOS and Android devices as well as online interpreters!

Do you remember your first F. Scott Fitzgerald? How you realized there was something more to literature, a voice, a time, a glamor? And then you heard about Zelda, and the Jazz Age, and Gatsby, and the beautiful shirts? And thought about why Nick Carraway was named that, and what Scott’s life was really like, and whether it would have been amazing or tragic?
Sally Koslow explored, absorbed, researched and recreated—and brings us—lucky us—a wonderful narrative biography into one part of Scott Fitzgerald’s life.

Feature Flags are a very simple technique to make features of your application quickly toggleable. The way it works is, everytime we change some behavior in our software, a logical branch is created and this new behavior is only accessible if some specific configuration variable is set or, in certain cases, if the application context respects some rules.

If only one out of 1000 users encounters a problem with a website, then it’s a minor problem.

If that sentence bothered you, it should.

It could be that that single problem resulted in one visitor’s financial information inadvertently being posted to the website for the world to see.

Or it could be a slight hesitation with a label on an obscure part of a website.

It’s part of the responsibility of user experience professionals to help developers make decisions about what to fix.

Accounting for problem frequency and severity are two critical ingredients when communicating the importance of usability problems.