George Box used to say that "all models are wrong, some are useful". Mental models, diagrams, flows, and schemes are our attempt to understand how something works. They are never perfect, as all simplifications end up ignoring some of the situation's particularities. The way designers work here has much more nuance than what I'm about to show, but...
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Here at Vinta we believe that programmers, not processes, nor code, are the most important assets on software engineering. Due ...
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In this post I'll present to you Tapioca, a Python library to create powerful API clients with very few lines of code. If you d...
Slides from talks given during the PythonBrasil[12] event will be posted here. This post and the slides are in written in Brazi...
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