Three responses to the question, “What if none of the things I believe about Jesus and God are actually real? What if Jesus didn’t rise from the dead?”

5 different things you might be using type annotations for, or might want to.

A response to Hillel Wayne’s “I am disappointed by dynamic typing”

Jesus’ command, “feed my sheep”, is the controlling priority.

A way to think about the soul, and how it relates to the body, in the 21st century

Patterns for creating model instances in Django project test suites, and some anti-patterns

How I tried and failed to add static type checking to Parsy, and settled for type hints as documentation instead.

A collection of tools that can be run to automatically rewrite Python code in a number of ways

Release announcement for pyastgrep, a tool for grepping Python code at the syntax level.

Why the argument from unwanted children doesn’t convince those who are pro-life

How returning error objects can provide some advantages over raising exceptions in Python, such as for static type checking tools.

The flows I use for exploratory programming using a REPL and their advantages.

A look at the claim that Bitcoin and blockchain represent a technological revolution, fairly in depth but trying to avoid any techno-babble.

A response to the crypto-positive challies.com article from a Christian perspective

Some of the downsides of technology stacks that are massively scalable and general purpose

What does it mean to participate in the sufferings of Christ? And what difference does it make to us to understand this?

The “asking” vs “guessing” cultural spectrum is one of many things that divides British and American culture (broadly speaking, though it varies across the USA/UK). I was explaining this to an American friend from one of the southern states recently. It goes like this…