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Today I learned that I can use the percent sign to run commands from inside Jupyter notebooks.

Today I learned that Python has nested Easter eggs in the standard library.

Today I learned that Polars allows non-strict vertical concatenation of dataframes with the parameter how="vertical".

Today I learned how to create standalone Python scripts with uv.

I used an LLM to write a countdown timer and I have mixed feelings about the result.

Today I learned how I can use the method 'groupdict' from a regex match to get a dictionary with all named groups.

In this article I explore functools.cmp_to_key and propose a possible implementation.

This article teaches the decorator pattern in Python, why it exists, how to use it, and when to use it to write efficient and idiomatic Python code.

Today I learned that if you suppress the exception KeyboardInterrupt then your program is still interrupted but it doesn't display a traceback.

Today I learned that the hash of an integer is the integer itself, except for -1. The hash of -1 is -2.

This article walks through the code used to animate a tree fractal.

Today I learned how to allow my custom objects to be unpacked into keyword arguments like '**kwargs'.