Early example of Duck Typing in 1991's SELF

In 1991 Ungar and Smith wrote about the experimental programming language SELF, and in it described duck typing, callng it behaviorism
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One-liner to analyze Python programs

The great benefit of knowing the command-line is being able to write scripts to analyze scripts, all in ~1 minute.
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One Parent CSS

How I write CSS.
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HTML5 Semantic Markup is for HTML, not CSS

I hand crafted the CSS for site. It’s still a work in progress. I learned that while semantic tags are good for HTML, they’re not that great for CSS.
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Catches for traditional programmers when learning Python

After a lifetime of programming and compsci education, I’ve had some issues learning with Python. It screws me up in small ways. It’s a wonderful language, but dear god I wish these things were different.
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