Allison Kaptur
akaptur.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2015
Allison Kaptur is a programmer who writes about Python internals, debugging, and effective learning strategies for programmers.
What HN saysHN links it for CPython posts like the peephole optimizer, and for her growth mindset talk. Commenters list her among favorite technical blogs.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Effective Learning Strategies for Programmers5 people · 235 points · first shared 2015 · 40 comments on HN
- 2Love Your Bugs3 people · 139 points · first shared 2017 · 18 comments on HN
- 3Getting Started with Python Internals[2014]2 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 4Introduction to the Python Interpreter, Part 4: It's Dynamic1 people · 98 points · first shared 2016 · 2 comments on HN
- 5Of Syntax Warnings and Symbol Tables1 people · 14 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 6A Python Puzzle (2013)1 people · 9 points · first shared 2017 · 2 comments on HN
- 7Introduction to the Python Interpreter1 people · 6 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 8Category: python-internals1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 9Python puzzle solution (Hacker School 2013)1 people · 1 points · first shared 2018 · 1 comments on HN
- 10Archives1 people · first shared 2015
- 11The cpython peephole optimizer and you1 people · first shared 2024
What HN people wrote when they linked it
PaulHoule · 2024-11-20
Python has a peephole optimizer: https://akaptur.com/blog/2014/08/02/the-cpython-peephole-optimizer-and…
meshy · 2017-09-18
This concept from Carol Dweck's research is core to Allison Kaptur's keynote at the New Zealand Python User Group in 2015 [0]. It's a good talk regarding the importance of having a growth mindset.
If you prefer a written version, it's available on Allison Kaptur's website[1]. Previous discussion [2].
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mcc6JEhDSpo
[1]: http://akaptur.com/blog/2015/10/10/effective-learning-strategies-for-p…
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10370669
ATsch · 2017-09-02
Also has a great list of other blogs, most of which are my favorites now too.
https://jvns.ca/blog/2016/04/09/some-of-my-favorite-blogs/
here's a copy+pastable list:
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/
http://danluu.com/
https://aphyr.com/
http://www.elidedbranches.com/
http://composition.al/blog/2015/03/31/what-isnt-a-key-value-store/
https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2016/03/29/0
http://blog.plover.com/aliens/dd/intro.html
http://blog.jessitron.com/2015/06/ultratestable-coding-style.html
http://akaptur.com/blog/2014/08/03/getting-started-with-python-interna…
http://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com/post/142387131042/nodejs-left-…
http://embedded.fm/blog/takingaparttoys
http://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2012/09/20/7-john-mccarthy-papers-in…
https://mathbabe.org/2016/03/30/apple-vs-fbi-nobody-won/
matwood · 2015-10-25
That's the fault of a poor education process and not that of education or even testing for that matter. This was posted on HN the other day and it is certainly something I had to overcome as I transitioned from being told I was smart to almost failing out of college.
http://akaptur.com/blog/2015/10/10/effective-learning-strategies-for-p…
I think we need more methods for teaching (I wish I had Kahn Academy when growing up!). Everyone gets to where they understand basic math and reading comprehension in their own way, and that's fine. But if we are not checking up on students progress and making sure they have some basic level of general education, we are failing the students.
jonjacky · 2015-08-01
Also -- these two are mostly technical, advanced:
Jessica McKellar: http://web.mit.edu/jesstess/www/
Allison Kaptur: http://akaptur.com/blog/archives/
This one is mostly about teaching and learning:
Django girls (Ola Sitarska and Ola Sendecka): http://blog.djangogirls.org/