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codysoyland··on Study finds link between 'forever chemicals' in cookware and liver cancer
For those looking for an alternative, carbon steel pans are stamped or spun from steel sheets and are seasoned like cast iron, but are typically thinner and have longer handles. These have been a game changer for my home cooking and I never heard of them until recently. I highly recommend getting a small one for your morning eggs. De Buyer is a popular high quality brand.
codysoyland··on Apple Makes Magic Keyboard with Touch ID Available for Purchase
I was hoping they would return to the old-style (upside-down T shaped) arrow keys with smaller left/right keys.
codysoyland··on Two years after LASIK eye surgery
The thing that always bothered me about LASIK is that the flap never fully heals. I considered doing PRK (an alternative procedure that omits the cutting of the flap), but the healing time can take months. I was screened by an eye surgeon who insisted LASIK is a superior procedure. Has anyone scientifically compared the risk of LASIK vs. PRK?
codysoyland··on List of April Fools' Day Announcements
yoloimport: Python package that eliminates ImportErrors.

https://github.com/codysoyland/yoloimport

codysoyland··on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
It's interesting to see this launch just days after Heroku Postgres 2.0 (https://postgres.heroku.com/blog/past/2013/11/11/heroku_post...). I would like to see a thorough comparison.
codysoyland··on Introducing Flask-Sockets
This looks like a thin wrapper over gevent-websocket. The code is slightly longer than the README: https://github.com/kennethreitz/flask-sockets/blob/master/fl...

Not to discredit the attempt to make gevent-websocket more accessible, but there's nothing really new here. Here's an example of using gevent-websocket with flask without this library: https://gist.github.com/lrvick/1185629

codysoyland··on Using Nginx and UWSGI
Stopped reading at "evented models never work anywhere in Python."

Gunicorn+gevent has been painless for me.

codysoyland··on Spark Core: Wi-Fi for Everything (Arduino Compatible)
There are compatible USB wifi modules, like this one: http://www.adafruit.com/products/814
codysoyland··on Introducing Roku 3
The search functionality looks fantastic. Plus, I love that they're updating Roku 2 with this new interface. I can't wait.
codysoyland··on What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project
Chris Dickinson's response to this whole ordeal is very much worth the read: https://gist.github.com/02cbd380b7b3b1df62b5
codysoyland··on Monoprice Announces 27-Inch 2560 x 1440 Monitor for $390
Can anybody confirm if these support HDCP?
codysoyland··on Adobe says it is not providing free copies of Creative Studio 2
Awful title. I half-expected to see bankruptcy proceedings.
codysoyland··on How text editing on the iPad should be
I'm surprised nobody seems to be addressing how easy it would be to accidentally move the cursor while using the keyboard.

Neat idea, but I don't see it happening.

codysoyland··on Node.js and the javascript age
Evented web development != Javascript.

These problems are all solvable by other languages/frameworks. I use Python, and we have gevent, which does the same thing as Node, but in a more concise language with a richer standard library.

LAMP is not dead. It's evolving.

codysoyland··on Benchmarking Go and Python Web servers
It's too bad the author didn't include gevent in the post, as it seems to be the fastest way to do concurrency with python (see http://nichol.as/benchmark-of-python-web-servers). I'm surprised it was faster than the Go example. I wonder if a Cython-based handler would take it even further...
codysoyland··on Ruby4Kids
This looks like an interesting project, but I don't see how it can teach kids how to program. I clicked on the lesson 1 screencast and saw that, even before trying to run a single line of code, it dived into importing 2 modules, subclassing and defining 3 methods, and running a GUI. It's hard to grock inheritance if you haven't been introduced to variables and operators. If you actually want to teach kids programming in a way they'll understand, I recommend Zed Shaw's book Learning Python the Hard Way (http://learnpythonthehardway.org/index).
codysoyland··on Do you have a blog? And if so, why?
Joking of course. Blogging is good for the internet. And your career.
codysoyland··on Do you have a blog? And if so, why?
Yes. Because I am better than you.