Monthly Shaarli

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September, 2017

Injecting a Chess Engine into Amazon Redshift

The one where Michael Burge writes a chess engine to demonstrate how to load and execute arbitrary machine code from a Python user-defined function from within Amazon's Redshift database service.

The best way to store your dotfiles: A bare Git repository - Atlassian Developers

This is the technique I use to manage my dot files across a few computers (bare git repository in ~ with an alias for git).

But some of these projects look interesting: https://dotfiles.github.io/#general-purpose-dotfile-utilities

How to use Vim’s textwidth like a pro

Good overview of vim's textwidth and formatoptions for automatically (or not) wrapping text.

Contributing os.scandir() to Python

Ben Hoyt's account of contributing a feature to Python's standard library is a good account of the open-source process gone well.