GOAL: Build a lightweight, bootable *.img file that you can flash onto a Raspberry Pi SD card. This will be the shortest, fastest Buildroot tutorial you read, and the tutorial is optimized for speed and simplicity. For a deep dive, see the Buildroot manual.
Source: Building Tiny Raspberry Pi Linux Images With Buildroot, an article by Rick Carlino.
Whether learning a programming language, working through a problem, or trying to understand a new library, it may be tempting to flail around crafting just the right search engine query or cry for help on a forum like Stack Overflow. But look at any guide to asking good questions and you’ll find this commandment at the top: do your research. And one of the primary sources of that research is the official documentation for the language or library in question.
Source: Read The Fantastic Manual: How to get the most out of Perl documentation, an article by Mark Gardner.
I remain convinced that Python’s
functools.partial()is underappreciated. Following my previous post, here are three more ways to usepartial()with Django.
Source: Three more uses for functools.partial() in Django, an article by Adam Johnson.