Demian Brecht

Demian Brecht @demianbrecht

About: Identity @ Salesforce, ex-Demonware (Activision), EA. Polyglot with a focus on Python. OSS Advocate.

Joined:
Feb 28, 2020

Demian Brecht
articles - 6 total

Gen AI: Feeding the dormant hacker

I can be a bit of a tech curmudgeon at times. I once even went as far as to write that you would pry...

Learn More 0 1May 27

Dude, I'm slagging your code. Not you.

I wrote this a few years ago on Medium, but thought I'd re-share it with this community as I strongly...

Learn More 40 10Apr 11 '20

Entry points in Python

What's an entry point? The most relevant bit of the description in Wikipedia is: In comp...

Learn More 46 2Apr 9 '20

Why the hell is my code so slow?! (aka performance analysis in Python)

Setting the stage So you've finally finished that feature that you've been grinding on for...

Learn More 11 0Mar 10 '20

The lesser known (but incredibly useful) way of settings breakpoints in Python

Everyone knows that in order to set a breakpoint in Python you need to modify your source code with t...

Learn More 39 6Mar 3 '20

You will pry vim from my cold, dead hands

I get funny looks from people quite often. Random person: "What IDE do you use?" Me: "I don't use a...

Learn More 16 0Mar 3 '20