I'm about to finish my degree and have been fortunate enough to receive two graduate job offers. One was an associate product manager position at Google, and the other was software engineering at Bloomberg. Both companies and jobs excited me, which left me with a difficult choice. In this post …
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Recently, I was reading an interesting article on some under-used Python features. In the article, the author mentioned that from Python version 3.2, the standard library came with a built in decorator functools.lru_cache which I found exciting as it has the potential to speed up a lot of …
Recently I've had two Flask projects with endpoints that take lots of parameters. While working on the first project, I noticed that I was writing a lot of code for validation in each method, and it ended up looking ugly and probably full of bugs. When I started the second …
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Recently-ish GitHub announced that HTTPS would now work on custom domains with GitHub Pages. This was a great bit of news, because the web is slowly moving towards a HTTPS-only state of being and it's nice not to be left behind.
Unfortunately for me, for this new feature to work …
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August to November is internship application season for computer science undergraduates and over the past few months I've been applying to a good number of internships myself. Through these applications I've learnt a few things about what makes for a good recruitment process and what doesn't and I hope to …
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Cameron MacLeod