Oh boy another underjord post. It's always such a joy getting to read his writing.

Would you share a little more why you'd recommend it even for a non-jazz fan ? I assume you mean it would be of interest to music fans more broadly, or because it has applications to interests outside of music ?

Absolutely. I meant that he has a great life story, even if he had been a visual artist or an engineer, he is just such a unique character. The book is also an interesting examination of history, the culture in Harlem when Sonny was growing up, and the evolution of popular culture generally. I guess I found it had a certain anthropological value, beyond your run of the mill jazz biography.

Life is suffering. Why not pair program to pass the time ?

Turns out sometimes writing more lines of python is better than writing fewer.

I wouldn't consider myself a python developer, but I've been been writing a lot of python lately. Recently I decided to take a peek behind the covers of some of the everyday magic behind the #Python programming language.

Curious how python works under the hood ? Let's take a look together.