Python has supported optional type annotations since Python 3.6, like: # Specify argument and return types def add(x: int, y: int) -> int: return x + y All currently supported Python …

Want to show off your hard work on a project? gource displays the history of a git repo with a cool moving visualisation of how the files + folders have been …

You can use tools like black to automatically style your Python code in a consistent way. However, if you're just running it manually, you have to remember to run it …

If your conda environment is taking a long time to solve (or failing to solve altogether), you might want to try mamba, which reimplements conda in C++ with an improved …

Issues with memory use can be hard to pin down, as your program may only show issues after carrying out multiple memory intensive steps. Using the memory_profiler package in Jupyter …

Autocompletion of variable names in Jupyter Lab (or Notebook) can be frustratingly inconsistent. For a smoother development experience, the jupyterlab-lsp extension provides better completions using the same language servers as …

If you want to get something done in your shell but don't want to scour through a whole man page looking for the right combination of options, tldr might have …

While I'm pretty comfortable with basic shell commands, I like the convenience of features like syntax highlighting. Lately I've discovered a few replacements for common shell commands that add an …

The R maintainers have made some changes to how R is built on Mac OS for R 4.0+: this should make some packages like Stan easier to use, however …

The output you deliver to clients might include multiple reports, e.g. HTML files generated from RMarkdown. In order to display these using Github Pages, it's useful to create an …