This is the list of Python questions I use when interviewing senior developers. It's not complete, and some questions are a bit odd on purpose. Each one now has an answer, or for the open questions, what a strong answer covers. Try to answer first, then check. The series has three parts: Python Interview Questions for Junior Developers Python Interview Questions for Mid-Level Developers Python Interview Questions for Senior Developers (this page) Read the full post

The second season of the anime adaptation of The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten aired for 12 episodes from April 3, 2026, through June 19 of the same. The first season had aired for 12 episodes three years prior in 2023. The anime adapts an ongoing Japanese light novel series of the same name. I had reviewed the first season of The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, published a specious 2023 article about having correctly predicted a second season announcement, and then previewed the second…

At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my social media posts serves, I’ve found, as a positive and mellowing influence on my online activity. Some items show up on disquiet.com before this post, in which case I don’t repeat them. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also…

The finest tribute to one writer by another I’ve read of late is John Lukacs’ “Agnes Repplier, Writer and Essayist.” Repplier (1855-1950) published perhaps one-thousand essays during a writing career of seventy years. Lukacs unabashedly admires her and her work and convinces me that Repplier may be the most unjustly forgotten of American writers. His thirty-six-page essay generously quotes her work (she’s eminently quotable, as is Lukacs) and serves as an excellent introduction to so…

It is October! Somehow the year is already more than 75% over. The World Public transportation in Metro Manila had a fare increase last Monday. I'd complain, but honestly the drivers already earn so little they deserve a raise. The economy is a challenge for everybody. My Week Google Fit says I walked 67,578 steps from last Sunday to yesterday, breaking the 70k week streak after a while. I missed the mark on Saturday, having to stay at home a lot. I'm still in a good spot though, in terms of…

03 Miniature | INDEX | 05 Smack Self-imposed constraint: Use the letters of the prompt word inside a 2-inch square to illustrate its meaning. Hongdian Black Forest fountain pen, EF, black ink on 120 gsm paper

The next day, Allan went down to the coast to visit the Worthing show. Here are a few photos, in very random order….

This is from The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. The study of strategic culture to explain geopolitical behavior has been controversial primarily because its critics argued that culture was mostly explanatory in retrospect, and in any case, lower than what calculations of realpolitik would suggest. Yet culture itself has enjoyed a new prominence in public discourse over past decade, with prominent commentators saying thing such as “politics is downstream from…

Published by AHE. on 04th October 2026 Auditions - 4 of those auditions Ads - 3 (self-tapes), 1 pencilled Theatre - 1 (self-tape) Getting pencilled for a job is great, when it happens... Getting pencilled is basically the team saying "Hey, make sure you're free on these days. We might need you." which is great, untill you find out you've turned down alternative work for nothing. It's just how it goes sometimes, and it's fine I suppose. I get it. The industry can be unpredictable. But it doesn't…

A little introduction to Osaka and the surprisingly charming neighborhood that was our homebase while there.

I suppose that I ought to mention that I managed to blag a free ticket for Stafford this year, by virtue of having given the exhibition organiser my old layout, "Edgeworth". Mind you, this, and York, are both on the list of shows I happily attend as a punter, paying to go in. Stafford is always a worthwhile trip. Partly because I get to take the train, and then vintage bus, to the showground. Yes, it would be cheaper to drive, but not nearly as fun. Of course, as I'd save my money on a ticket,…

You can’t call a guy to pick up a branch? Within two weeks? You can’t actually pick up a branch yourself with your own meat hands and throw it in the woods or something? What do you mean you had your robot shop for collectible ceramics?

Today's review just might help set the tone for a lot of the reviews to come this October as it actually centers on two ways that the main theme for 2026's 31 Days of Toy Terror is applied: It's both from a piece of media that is set on or around Halloween (House of 1000 Corpses) and it's an action figure from Trick or Treat Studios, a company who has been putting out some incredibly delightful retro styled action figures that feel like they're based on action feature driven toylines from the…

It’s Sunday, and it’s time for another “picdump,” but this is no ordinary picdump. This one is made of a record-breaking almost 750 videos, memes, pictures, and cartoons floating around the internet that I found interesting or relevant this week, which includes a lot of Jack Smith / Eric Shmitt stuff. Read, and share these far and wide! How many kids did DOGE kill? Elon says “zero”, but he has this “tell” that gives him away when he lies: words come out of his mouth. Adam Conover gets people…

Baby Huey and the Vets in Chicago, 1963. From left: Pete Foster, Dale Harper, James Ramey (Baby Huey), Melvyn Jones and Butch Whited. Baby Huey and the Baby Sitters are a famous Chicago band, but their roots are in Richmond, Indiana, where they formed in high school as Baby Huey and the Vets in 1962. The members attended Richmond High School, most of them graduating in 1964. Earliest gig notice I can find for Baby Huey and the Vets in Richmond, Indiana, November 23, 19621962 November 23 –…

Links Posted to Thoughts The Week of 09-27-2026 There were 1 links posted this week. 10/01/2026 @19:58 USPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’The United States Postal Service is running a pilot program to put cameras in its mail carrier trucks that continuously scan roads and signs, map roadways and sidewalks, and improve “community safety,” according to a letter posted by a labor union and a statement from the agency to 404 Media. The idea is that, since the trucks…

Versus Mode Trailer The new versus mode is now available in a free update to Survival Ball, a game I published 8 years ago that originally shipped with a solo / co-op campaign. Here is the story behind it. Cooperative vs Competitive Local co-op gaming experiences have been one of the best I had when playing with others. Not only did they create a healthy environment that usually brought up the best of each of the players, but also offered mechanics that could run deep and be intellectually…

I started life poor, my mom patching clothes until my dad got out of school. Not that I remember much of it, given how young I was, but what I do remember is the change afterwards, when we moved to Oregon. For a short five years it was that idyllic American life of bombing down suburban streets on a BMX and playing in the woods. I had not one, but two forts built in the slice of forest behind our house. The divorce, and later move, and intermittent child support as courts put life on a feast or…

Pedestrians and the Brooklyn Bridge – New York, New York As I showed you yesterday, my wife and I made it to the Brooklyn Bridge, and you can tell from this scene that we walked closer toward the first tower. Of course, the more salient difference is that I’m back to using the Leica M Monochrom camera again. At 50mm, the focal length is also a bit longer than yesterday’s 42mm, thus creating a slight compression of the people against the bridge’s architecture. While I shot other compositions…

More than most things, I can remember sitting on a rock in a narrow slot canyon in the middle of winter. I’d come up from Section 16, a loop of a trail in the foothills of Pike’s Peak, and cut off trail through Juniper and bare scrub. Then across a narrow steel grate brdge over what I’d always assumed to be a concrete sluice use to route water from snow melt, then trespassing as I crossed the cog railway that ran to the summit. I’d been there before, but never in winter. The lower trail was…

Given the disappointment of "Sotto il Vestito Niente" I went back to the fertile ground of Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava for the sequel to the 1985 Demons movie. "Sequel" is generous since it is essentially the same plot.Demons 2 (1986)Demons (1985) had a bunch of people meeting up in a theatre when a bunch of demons attacked and killed or infected them all. Demons 2 (1986) had a bunch of people meeting up in a high-rise when a bunch of demons attacked and killed or infected them all. This…

The recent panic about a breach of Medicare computer security by an “AI agent” contrasts sharply with other recent cases such as the Telstra and Optus outages that left many Australians unable to reach Triple Zero. In those cases, no one blamed the computers involved. The mistakes were clearly sheeted home to the corporations that operated them. This wasn’t always the case. When the term “artificial intelligence” was coined some 70 years ago, the first mainframe computers (absurdly primitive by…

(A piece I ran in The Guardian) The recent panic about a breach of Medicare computer security by an “AI agent” contrasts sharply with other recent cases such as the Telstra and Optus outages that left many Australians unable to reach Triple Zero. In those cases, no one blamed the computers involved. The mistakes were clearly sheeted home to the corporations that operated them. This wasn’t always the case. When the term “artificial intelligence” was coined some 70 years ago, the first mainframe…

This is the first of two Sopwith Dolphins, a British fighter from late in WW1 that had excellent performance but had to battle against prejudice in the RFC against its backward-staggered wings. This one is not all my own work, but a remix of Decapod's excellent model.

Coffee, it is a wondrous thing. Suppose you told me I could go to an alternate universe where everything is practically perfect, but coffee, somehow, doesn't exist. Fraknly, I would really hesitate to commit to even visiting such a place. I understand how some people don't like coffee. I know folks like that. I call some of them friends or loved ones, but readers, they are wrong. Dead wrong. Coffee is one of the best things ever, and I have been drinking it so long I am pretty sure I'd have to…

Today’s bridge game had the following: two grand slams (we bid one and the other was a hand that was one of the two sets we didn’t get to play, so didn’t get the chance), a 50/50 small slam bid against us, making (the only table to bid it, sigh) … and then there was the following: S: KQ H: AKQJT7x D: Kx C: Qx 20 HCP, but is it really? The solid suit is worth more than ten points, but the honors in short suits …. ugh. (To my surprise, KNR counts it as 22! But the DK count is 20-, which strikes…

Book 34 for my 2026 goal of 36 books for the year! My link to the book is through my bookshop.org affiliate account, which means I may earn a small commission if you buy from there. Ramsey Campbell has been a prolific and influential fixture of horror fiction for decades and shows no signs of slowing down. Earlier this year, I received a complimentary copy of his reprinted novel Incarnate from Flame Tree Press and also was given the opportunity to interview Campbell for my blog. This latter…

Someone asked me why I still have to study for professional certification? She has some valid points: Most clients do not understand the significance of my certification No one sees my certificates as nobody visits my office I just need to demonstrate my knowledge to my clients and publish on social media I will use amateur sports players and professional sport players to explain my justification. A good amateur players might be able to beat 80% of other amateur players. This person may not…