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Armin Ronacher is a stone cold badass. He created Flask: http://flask.pocoo.org/

Indeed he is an ultimate badass. Flask is really great. But, especially given how beautiful the Flask docs are, I don't know what makes people think Scribd is a good idea when there are shared google docs, everyone has libre office or ms office or you can print to PDF. The last slide says he will put the slides on his personal site which has been down for a while so I guess that might be a reason.

> Flask is really great. But, especially given how beautiful the Flask docs are, ...

Which are generated with sphinx, which is a doc tool he created ...

I am smelling a bit of Knuth here. (No good typesetting, so lets create Tex.) :)

Yup. He's also creating a replacement for the Python logging module.

A bit of Knuth, maybe. But this isn't unique to Knuth - many people have created tools when they weren't satisfied with the existing tools.

All frameworks would fall under "no good x, let's create x". He is a good programmer for sure, but comparisons with Knuth are a bit far fetched:).

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