If the Baháʼí Faith opened this series by talking about unity and continuity, Buddhism arrives with a very different but equally disarming opening line: life involves suffering. No thunder, no cosmic courtroom, no villain monologue. Just an observation, delivered calmly, and followed immediately by something refreshingly useful: a method. This episode is part of The … Read more
Before we jump in, here is the intro to the overall series, which explains why graph theory keeps showing up in interviews and real systems: https://medium.com/@DaveLumAI/what-am-i-missing-about-graph-theory-and-why-faang-keeps-bringing-it-up-e010db2aef7e If Episode 1 was about getting from point A to point B without losing your sanity, Episode 2 is about people. Or more precisely: connections between people, companies, bots, … Read more
If Episode 1 was the friendly tour guide waving at the front doors of CS 101, Episode 2 is the moment you actually walk inside and someone hands you the keys to a very literal robot. Not a smart robot. A “read everything exactly as written” robot. The kind that will confidently follow your instructions … Read more
If Episode 1 was Python sipping a latte and making pseudocode feel cool, Episode 2 is about the language that looks at all that and says, “Cute. Now hand me the operating system.” Welcome to C: the grizzled veteran that still quietly runs your laptop, your router, your car, your smart fridge, and probably the … Read more
If you missed the series intro, start with Episode 1: The Big Four — Solidity, Vyper, Rust, and Move and the Web3 overview — then come back for today’s deep dive into Solidity, the EVM’s chatty extrovert who always shows up with a toolbelt and a stack of audit notes. Solidity in One Breath Solidity is a contract-oriented, statically … Read more
If testing frameworks were video game characters, pytest would be that unassuming fighter who shows up with a trench coat full of gadgets, drops a pun, then wipes the floor with the final boss. Not flashy, not verbose—just ridiculously effective. So why does pytest keep showing up in every serious Python shop like it owns … Read more
René Magritte: the man who gave every philosophy undergrad a headache and made every museum-goer wonder if the pipe was a lie. Magritte didn’t paint dreams — he painted reality pretending to be dreams pretending to be reality. If you’re confused, congratulations: you’re experiencing Magritte the correct way. Born in Belgium in 1898, Magritte grew up just … Read more
Once upon a time — before Agile sprints, kanban boards, or the phrase “move fast and break things” — there was Waterfall. The software development world’s first official method. It was neat. It was structured. It was… a little too confident. Let’s dive into the method that walked so others could run in circles. What is the Waterfall Model? … Read more
Ah, the Renaissance. The age when Europe collectively woke up from its medieval nap, stretched, looked around, and said, “You know what we need? Art. Science. Giant domes. And a whole lot of naked statues.” The Renaissance (roughly the 14th to the 17th century) wasn’t just a rebirth — it was an explosion of human creativity, with … Read more