Receive and transmit for November.

• The Difference Between a Framework and a Library [3 min]
• Windows turns 35: A visual history [6 min]
• Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi [12 min]
• Important Open Source projects should not use GitHub [4 min]
• the road to Hell is paved with good intentions [5 min]
• Last phase of the desktop wars? [3 min]
• Robert Conquest’s Three Laws of Politics [2 min]
• The right to be rude [2 min]
• Atheism Is Dead. Consider This The Obituary. [15 min]
• A Conversation with Alan Kay [26 min]
• Optimizations in C++ Compilers [27 min …

Among November's receive and transmit, the following links are recommended reading and watching:

• A Career Switcher’s Guide to Landing Your Dream Tech Job [61 min]
• Big-O: how code slows as data grows [13 min]
• A Gentle Introduction to Algorithm Complexity Analysis [47 min]
• Python Oddities (video) [32 min]
• The Amazing Mutable, Immutable Tuple, and Other Philosophical Digressions (video) [21 min]
• Hints for writing UNIX tools [6 min]
• Formatting Disks: what's really happening? [11 min]
• Peter Thiel's Religion [69 min]
• What is Quantum Computing? Google's Quantum Supremacy Claim Explained [4 min]
• Perlisisms: Epigrams in Programming [9 min]
• Biography of a Cypherpunk, and …

Days 10–12 of the 100 Days of Code TalkPython course is dedicated to unit testing with pytest, and is a foison of information. Prior to this, I had very little experience with pytest but found it less intuitive than the language itself, and somewhat obscure—at least at first. I think, however, this was because of trying to concinnate the actual tests—much like I would any program—rather than simply hardcoding the input and expected output of a function's given test with the parametrize decorator. Instead, I would essentially try to rewrite the function logic differently to reproduce the desired …