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I wrote a tiny language implementation: Calcium. It’s meant as a demonstration of how languages like Python are implemented. It has a tokenizer, a parser, an AST, a compiler, bytecodes, and an execution engine, all in about 300 lines of code.
I did it because I often see the ques...
There has been a long gap between posts (again!), and a lot of the stuff that I’m going to talk about in this post is fairly old too. Oh well, life keeps getting in the way of blogging.
Anyway, I’ve recently submitted a talk for the FOSS4G UK 2026 conference in Leeds in October...
Django has a signing module that makes it easy to build an unsubscribe link that works with no login and no session: token = signing.dumps(recipient.pk, salt=UNSUBSCRIBE_SALT). The token itself is the authentication, and it ships with Django out of the box.
The URL is the whole requestUnsubscribing poses a bit of a pickle. A user can click the link in an email without...
Gerald Carlton and I will be presenting on fuzzy name search at DjangoCon US 2026 on Monday, August 24, and this is the companion blog post. Searching for a person by name is harder than it looks:...