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Food

Croissants: yeast fermentation and butter layers work together

The classic croissants in this recipe use yeast dough layered with butter. Rolling and folding create distinct layers before shaping and final proofing.

Published22 Oct 2026

Technology

Unicodedata: a visible character has properties and representations

unicodedata provides Unicode names, categories and normalization. normalize('NFC', text) helps give equivalent sequences a common representation.

Published22 Oct 2026

Cars

MAXX: air disc brakes for commercial vehicles

MAXX is ZF's range of air disc brakes for trucks and buses. The manufacturer describes a single-piston design, a running-clearance adjustment mechanism and options for monitoring wear.

Published22 Oct 2026

Technology

String.Template: names in a simple text template

string.Template uses placeholders such as $name for text substitution. substitute() expects the required values; safe_substitute() can leave unresolved placeholders in the result.

Published22 Oct 2026

Architecture

Pampulha: concrete meeting the lake and the arts

Belo Horizonte’s Pampulha Modern Ensemble was designed around an artificial lake. Oscar Niemeyer’s buildings combine concrete’s possibilities with landscape, sculpture and painting.

Published22 Oct 2026

Food

Fougasse: openings need to survive the rise

The source’s olive-and-onion fougasse uses a poolish preferment and a cut-out shape. Openings contribute to the finished bread’s characteristic silhouette.

Published22 Oct 2026

Technology

Textwrap: wrapping a paragraph for text output

textwrap.wrap() returns lines constrained by a chosen width. textwrap.fill() joins them into a string with line breaks, useful for console help text.

Published22 Oct 2026

Technology

Pprint: readable diagnostic output for data

pprint formats Python structures with readable indentation and line breaks. It helps inspect nested lists and dictionaries when a single-line representation is inconvenient.

Published22 Oct 2026

Technology

Copy: a new outer list can share its contents

copy.copy() makes a shallow copy, while copy.deepcopy() handles nested objects using deep-copy rules. Assigning another name does not create a copy at all.

Published22 Oct 2026

Architecture

Ouro Preto: gold mining reflected in the townscape

Ouro Preto developed as an important centre of Brazil’s gold rush. Churches, bridges and fountains preserve evidence of its prosperity, including work associated with Aleijadinho.

Published22 Oct 2026

Food

Cornbread: the name does not mean corn alone

King Arthur’s Cornbread combines cornmeal with wheat flour, leaveners and liquid ingredients. It is a particular mixture, not a promise of a gluten-free bake.

Published22 Oct 2026

Technology

Array: a numeric container with a defined type

array.array uses a type code to constrain the basic values it stores. For example, array('i', [1, 2, 3]) holds integers rather than arbitrary objects.

Published22 Oct 2026