As a coder, I have written and read a lot of code, but what new things did I learn when I my main job required me to mostly reading few thousand lines of code?

I downloaded the source code (450 GB in total) of all the Chrome Web Extensions available on the Chrome Webstore to find the ones that use deep learning frameworks. This post is about how I achieved it and what I found on the way.

Understand what exactly the mysterious Y-combinator is by writing one from scratch. This post also gently explains the limitations of the Y-combinator in a strict programming language like Python, and the alternative Z-combinator.

Figure out how the famous Y-combinator allows you to add recursion even when the language has no builtin support for it. Even better, everything is in Python!