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A data race is when: ⁰

• Two or more threads concurrently accessing a location of memory.
• One or more of them is a write.
• One or more of them is unsynchronized.

But in Python, every thread is synchronized, because of the Global Interpreter Lock. So it can't have data races, right? ¹

Back in June 2020, I wrote a snippet to fuzzy search hackingwithswift.com, using Emacs's ivy completion framework. With a similar online API, we could also search Apple's docs. Turns out, there is and we can we can use it to search developer.apple.com from our beloved editor.

Your apps become more robust as you gain programming experience. Improvements to coding techniques play a large part but you’ll also learn to consider the edge cases. If something can go wrong, it will go wrong: typically when the first user accesses your new system.

A woman awakes in the morning to find that someone has picked her apartment’s supposedly impregnable door lock and rearranged personal items, even sitting beside her while she slept. The intrusion, the police learn, is a message to the entire city of carnage to come. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to investigate and soon learn that the sociopathic intruder, who calls himself "the Locksmith,” can break through any lock or security system ever devised. With more victims on the horizon, Rhyme, Sachs and their stable of associates must follow the evidence to the man’s lair… and discover his true mission.

Their hunt is interrupted when an internal investigation in the police force uncovers what seems to be a crucial mistake in one of Rhyme's previous cases. He’s fired as a consultant for the NYPD and must risk jail if he investigates the Locksmith case in secret.