As I had mentioned in another article, half of what I learned about leadership came from watching cooking shows, particularly cooking competitions. This article is about one of my favorite examples.

Other than my own personal experience, half of what I learned about leadership came from watching cooking shows, particularly cooking competitions. On one such competition, multiple chefs were battling to become the head chef for a renowned restaurateur. At a given point, the restaurateur (who happened to be one of the judges) was asked about the expectations from the winner. The response was a master class in leadership: “I expect honesty, integrity, and soul.”

In this article I’m presenting a way of using functional programming in Python, highlighting some benefits and a few shortfalls. There are plenty of scholars out there; this is mostly a hobbyist’s perspective, so please don’t consider this to be the ultimate word.

On my desktop PC I’m currently running Arch Linux with GNOME. On my laptop I have Arch Linux with niri. It took me significant time and effort to come here, though.

One of the biggest mantras in public speaking is that never, ever, under any circumstances, you should start a speech with an apology. The same applies to written speeches such as this.

A few months ago I was exposed to Go, a new programming language (at least for me). Being well versed in some of the modern environments and frameworks, I usually don’t pay much attention to new languages, unless there’s something of interest to me. In this case, there was. In fact, there are some strong aspects in Go which I haven’t seen as frequently.