In Python, everything is an object. (to the one of you who says “just like Ruby”… please just shut up, nobody likes you!). “But wait”, I hear you ask, “when you say everything, you really mean everything?”. Yes. Ohhhh boy, yes. Every string, integer, list, tuple, function, everything, i tell…

Object Oriented Programming, in opposition to procedural programming, is a programming paradigm based on the concept of objects, which can contain fields of data (called attributes), or functions (called methods). The Python language is class-based, meaning that all Python objects are instances of a class. As such, all objects instantiated…

While our muggle technology would baffle the likes of Newt Scamander, libraries are, arguably, fantastic (and useful!) beasts to master. Libraries are files containing multiple object files, that can be used as a single entity in the linking phase of the compiling process. …

The IOCCC Let me start by telling you about a wonderful *flinch* bunch *flinch-flinch* of people *flinch*: the IOCCC. That thing, which is short for International Obfuscated C Code Contest, is a bunch of thick-glassed, scruffy-bearded, short sleeve shirts-wearing nerds that reunite (almost) every year since 1984 to elect the worst offender…

What are static libraries and how do they work? Libraries are files containing multiple object files, that can be used as a single entity in the linking phase of the compiling process. In other words, it’s a collection of binaries of resources that can be used by any program that calls it. Static vs. Dynamic libraries Dynamic libraries are stored as separate entities…

Say you want your computer to do something new. Can you ask it, in natural language, what you want? “Duh, of course not!” I hear you say, “my computer speaks ‘code’, not English!” And you’d be kinda-sorta-half-right. On a hardware level, all your computer knows is machine code, aka binary…

Hard links vs Symbolic links. Who’s never wondered about this question at least once? How’s that? Everyone, you say? Nonsense! The Linux File System The concept of files is pretty much obvious for most of the people who will read this article. …

What in the heck are you typing? You acting like you’s in the Matrix or some sh*t? When I was a teen, being asked when Morpheus would come pick me up in the Nebuchadnezzar so I could go fight the machines with my “hacker sh*t” was almost a weekly occurence. …