GSoC 2020 with GNOME: a beginning

I have been accepted into Google Summer of Code 2020 with GNOME Foundation! I am grateful to my mentor albfan and the whole GNOME developer community to have helped me become capable enough to tackle this project. Can’t wait to get my hands dirty and become a strong member of the GNOME community!

May 18, 2020 · 1 min · 53 words · svineet

the only python trick you'll ever need (pdb: the python debugger)

I’ve written a fair amount of python in my life, and for the most part it has been quite a pleasant experience. But sometimes, the sheer ease of use of python becomes an issue. The best example for this would be Python’s duck typing. Since there is no type checking because of this, I often lose track of what exactly a variable held, and what the structure of the variable was. ...

November 23, 2019 · 2 min · 303 words · svineet