In a lecture, Patrick Winston said, “Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas. In that order.” I pondered on that sentence for days. The longer I thought about it, the more I recognized Patrick right. I thought about the leaders I...

The Python 3.10 release includes the new match statement, which superficially looks like the case/switch statements in other languages but semantically is closer to pattern matching in Haskell or Rust. Like the walrus operator*, I struggled to find a use case for this and it seemed like a feature that was added just...

After doing some other things for a while, I'm back to improving the website, namely my personal web directory. I have good news and bad news: on the one hand now there are more categories, making it easier to find certain things. On the other hand, it's getting tiresome to shuffle things around all the time, only...