As I wrap up my last week of paternity leave, I wasn't feeling all that inspired to write. Then, I received some funny messages from a previous student of mine about how challenging learning Python...
Tag: Software Development
It's not often that you actually have to think about more interesting day-to-day algorithms like shuffling a playlist. That's what I want to talk about today!
Today, just about anybody can pick up a language like Python or JavaScript and make something cool. Yet, the culture of the super genius programmer persists and leaves a lot of us in the field...
Magic numbers are numerical constants that have no clear meaning in the code and therefore make code harder to read. Anything that makes code harder to read is something we can use to obfuscate our...
Type hinting is a nice tool that dynamic typing languages employ to make code more readable. As you can probably imagine, readability is not the goal with obfuscating code, so we ought to get rid of...
One of the more nasty tricks we have in our obfuscation toolbelt is the reality that text has a lot of visually similar characters. If we sprinkle enough of them around, we can have some tough to...