Don't Let Dicts Spoil Your Code
- Roman Imankulov tl;dr: "The simplicity of organic code growth has a flip side: it becomes too hard to maintain. The proliferation of dicts as primary data structures is a clear signal of tech debt in your code. Fortunately, modern Python provides many viable alternatives to plain dicts."featured in #329
Quadratic Algorithms Are Slow (And Hashmaps Are Fast)
- Julia Evans tl;dr: Julia guides us through what a quadratic time function looks like, why it's slow, how to convert a quadratic algorithm into a linear one using a hashmap.featured in #252
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Dicts Are Now Ordered, Get Used To It
- Ivan Sagalaev tl;dr: "Changed in version 3.7: Dictionary order is guaranteed to be insertion order. This behavior was an implementation detail of CPython from 3.6."featured in #172