Programming Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 26, 2025

• Sean Goedecke ☛ Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews

  I think a lot of engineers don’t do code review correctly. Of course, there are lots of different ways to do code review, so this is largely a statement of my engineering taste.

• Alexandru Nedelcu ☛ Scala 3 / Match Types

  Scala has a neat feature called match types. Let’s play…

• [Old] James Hague ☛ Computer Science Courses that Don't Exist, But Should

• Rlang ☛ rOpenSci News Digest, October 2025

  Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog. Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci!

• Rlang ☛ Mapping Antarctica

• Rlang ☛ Approximating evidence via bounded harmonic means (and HPD regions with known volumes)

  Following a suggestion by Christian Hennig at JSM 2024, I started working with my PhD student Dana Naderi on a detailed assessment of the method we proposed in 2009 with Darren Wraith for evidence approximation.

• Python

  • Didier Stevens ☛ Quickpost: PEP 515 – Underscores in Numeric Literals

    While attending a great presentation of Kaitai Struct at Hack.lu 2025, I noticed a binary numeric notation during the demo, that I had never seen before. Something like 0b1000_0001. I’m familiar with notations in Python like 0b10000001, but not with an underscore thrown in to make the number more readable.