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xtreak blog
Personal blog · tirkarthi.github.ioprogrammingdata
xtreak blog is a personal blog at tirkarthi.github.io about programming and data. Since 2017, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Python 3.9 and beyond backwards compatibility”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its Python posts, including one on f-string debugging (the `f"{name = }"` syntax in Python 3.8), cited as related to a debugging library thread.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog about programming, mistakes and eureka
Most-linked posts?
- Python 3.9 and beyond backwards compatibility3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-01-28
- F-string debugging notation merged in Python 3.82 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-09
- PEP 578 – Runtime audit hooks in Python 3.8 improving security and transparency2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-24
What Hacker News says?
I feel like I've been seeing a lot of these almost identical articles pop up all over. Walrus operator, f-string equals, positional-only arguments, yawn . None of that is really going to change your life. There's a bunch of changes in the official "what's new" doc that I think are more interesting: https://docs.python.org/3.8/whatsnew/3.8.html * Run-time audit hooks, to see if your modules are making network request…
Comment linking /programming/2019/05/23/pep-578-overview.html
on “What's Coming in Python 3.8”Submitted New JSON query operators in SQLite 3.38.0 as a story · 397 points
HN discussionvery related blog post: f-string debugging in Python 3.8 [0] which says that Python 3.8 will allow this kind of output: >> print(f"{name = }") name = 'karthikeyan' >>> print(f"{name.upper() = }") name.upper() = 'KARTHIKEYAN' 0: https://tirkarthi.github.io/programming/2019/05/08/f-string-...
Comment linking /programming/2019/05/08/f-string-debugging.html
on “Icecream – A little debugging library”Submitted Finding Balance in Open Source as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python 3.9 and beyond backwards compatibility as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python 3.9 Compatibility Changes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stream processing with Redis streams and Clojure as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted PEP 578 – Runtime audit hooks in Python 3.8 improving security and transparency as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted F-string debugging notation merged in Python 3.8 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Analyzing 30k issues in bugs.python.org as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data mining clojars.org for JDK 9 and Clojure 1.9 issues as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clojure Deps Python Guide as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI usage in popular open source projects as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generative AI and Healthy Skepticism as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python 3.9 Compatibility Changes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Type annotations in Python's error messages as a story · 1 points
HN discussion