Readers of this blog and Coder Radio listeners will now that I have fallen for the snake and by that I of course mean Python! Typing that out cracks my little Ruby heart but for reasons that I’ve explained at length on the show The Mad Botter has moved to Python as...
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I don't normally enjoy writing controversial posts about why new technologies are bad; I LOVE it! So here we go! We're starting a new large-scale first-party project over at The Mad Botter (sorry no details today) that requires a significant level of low-level...
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