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Aaron Meurer
Personal blog · asmeurer.github.io/blogprogrammingdata
Aaron Meurer's personal blog at asmeurer.github.io covers programming and data. Since 2014, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Python 3 Features”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its Python 3 posts, including a Python 3 features write-up and a piece on the migration in science. Comments cite it for those topics rather than praising the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Python 3 Features2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-06-29
- Moving Away from Python 22 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-19
What Hacker News says?
How's this: https://asmeurer.github.io/python3-presentation/slides.html
Comment linking /python3-presentation/slides.html
on “Python 3 Is Winning Library Developer Support”Submitted Moving Away from Python 2 as a story · 227 points
HN discussionChained exceptions* is fantastic. I've found myself handling a specific set of exceptions, logging/printing various pieces of the traceback, and continuing on more times that I'd care to think about. This provides the level of context to the exception I'd have wanted. Combined with fine grained `oserrors`, that's awesome. I have so much magic `errno` checking code over the years. * https://asmeurer.github.io/python3…
Comment linking /python3-presentation/slides.html
on “Python 3 Features”Submitted Python 3 Features as a story · 109 points
HN discussionAlmost five years[1] in fact. To correct some other common misunderstandings elsewhere, it is not correct to say that python3's "changes are extremely breaking." It is easy to write code that runs under both 2 and 3, and 2to3 can convert 99% of code I've thrown at it[2]. The last one percent is straight up bad code that does crazy things like override the list() function with a variable. The other pain point is hybr…
Comment linking /python3-presentation/python3-presentation.pdf
on “Python 3 in Science: the great migration has begun”Submitted 10 features of Python that you can't use because you refuse to use Python 3 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted 10 awesome features of Python 3 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tuples as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moving Away from Python 2 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons learned from working at Continuum as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python3 features you can't use in python2 (2014) [pdf] as a story · 2 points
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