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137. Pycon US diary - Dealing with flights 136. MKBHD explains the Tesla phenomenon 135. Tesla - red love blinds 134. Owning your data 133. PyCon US diary - Consulate interview experience 132. Why I won't buy Tesla cars if they come to Mauritius 131. PyCon US diary - Applying for a US visa 130. How to evaluate freelancers 129. Dr Murat Dogruel's Better Than April Tag Fiducial System 128. Mauritians garnering a dubious freelancing reputation 127. PyCon US diary - Planning a US trip 126. Freelancing Principles 125. The Guardian's improvements to it's breaking news notification service 124. Jaeger, a classic for distriuted tracing 123. Most poignant darts for engineering success 122. Multi-layer cache at DoorDash 121. Cinammon - Uber's load shedder 120. My first course on Enterprise Python 119. Cell-based architecture 118. Modular monolith 117. How marketing shapes Rust development 116. Killedbygoogle: A signature move 115. Education and humanity 114. Education and role models 113. Raising vipers 112. Educational excellence for teens 111. Elements of a good educational system 110. But Abdur 109. The current education system is an insult to intelligence 108. An engineering company deriving value through corporate tactics 107. Google officially joins the stodgy club 106. Opensource: Author's vision v/s Product's vision 105. Ai rocks the product landscape 104. Luminotes: Read by engineers at Google, Amazon, Apple, IBM, ... 103. Saas ideas are easier to find 102. Google customers fund SquareSpace 101. Google Killed By Google? 100. Google's nose dive further accentuates 099. The ​Google Developer Experts​ is a thoroughly useless program 098. KVM & RedHat 097. Tech bro's opacity & marriage 096. Documention is also about documenting internals 095. Original Memory 094. OpenSource: Yet another way to learn Rust 093. Donald Knuth Clarifies 092. Distributed Patterns Are Useless?! 091. What OpenSource Helped You Achieve? 090. Having Intimacy With Employees: A Meaningless Criteria 089. Database Performance At Scale, An Excellent Book 088. Praise for Patterns of Distributed Computing 087. Why do you love Python, sir? 086. Back-of-the-envelope Calculations 085. Modern Python Cookbook review 084. When No Coding Outside Work Impacts OpenSource 083. Why In The FAANGs I Prefer Amazon 082. Who Is A Software Engineer? 081. ✨ Meetup question: How can we find time to dig into libraries and projects? 080. ✨ Meetup question: How to land a hit job in tech? 079. ✨ Meetup question: How to choose what OpenSource project to contribute to? 078. Software Engineering or Software Patterns 077. Business v/s Code-only Mindset 076. A Different Take On CVs 075. Course review: NLP with probabilistic models 074. Timelessness & Maintainers 073. Redis & Hyperloglog 072. Why Startups Over FAANGs 071. Ai & Fooling Humans 070. ML is Maths 069. Why a SQLite Book 068. Cringe Rustlang 067. Am I The Only One Who Feels Like An Idiot (Reddit)? 066. Independent Software Developper 065. Side Projects 064. Formal 'Education'? 063. Frameworks & Function 062. The World is Bigger Than FAANGs 061. OpenSource: Yet Another Way To Learn Rust 060. Types, Memory & Performance 059. Opensource is Tough 058. Programming History 057. Why Contribute To OpenSource 056. Pleasing People v/s Quality 055. Slow != Not Useful 054. Why i invest so much in Python 053. The smiling emoji does not represent happiness always 052. For community events prefer the community, not big corp x 051. University competitions serve corporates, not students 050. VCs don't save the financially unwise 049. Ai is just adaptively automating automation 048. OpenSource is an incredible career asset 047. The Silicon Valley is plunging the world into techno-religiousness 046. How to get first clients 045. How to build a good showcase 044. I don't trust Mycrowsoft with OpenSource 043. Likes are not a usefulness metric 042. Every post on LinkedIn is not for you 041. Part of stupidity is to follow every piece of valid information 040. The material is grounded in tactile reality and open to magic 039. Hire to fire 038. I like Python because of maths puns 037. Pouring $10B in chatGPT is a losing game 036. I am an official Rustlang contributor? 035. I don't trust codingame 034. Don't make your APIs simple 033. Clever hans is THE example with Ai 032. The maze is in the mouse 031. F* it, ship it 030. Are big companies involvement in OpenSource a scam? 029. Communities partnering up with big companies 028. Do we need standup meetings? 027. Hiring rounds or hiring the right person? 026. Python at SpaceX 025. Receiving Github's NASA badge for Python contributions 024. LinkedIn in one word: Junk 023. We helped 100+ people get into OpenSource 022. English: A Highly Illogical Language - Part 4 021. English: A Highly Illogical Language - Part 3 020. English: A Highly Illogical Language - Part 2 019. English: A Highly Illogical Language - Part 1 018. Beggers cannot be choosers: Corporates and language choice 017. I generally don't care about Mauritian companies 016. The sense of capitalization of letters in OpenSource 015. Welcome To The Age of The Barter System 014. Becoming an Airflow contributor by accident 013. Mauritius: The Place To Grow & Water Workers 012. PDM: An Option That Wriggles In-Between Existing Options 011. Choose Python version: features or syntax? 010. Specialising In Python Pays 009. Toptal Is NOT Interested About Python, Even Less About Mauritius 008. The four purposes of exercises 007. How To Evaluate Any Course! 006. The Two Parts of Python Learning 005. Why Python Programmers Need C? 004. Why Python Needs Python-Specific Tests? 003. If You Are Considering A Change in Career 002. The most difficult thing is to start 001. Linkedin is just another social media