sort –key TrickCommandline folklore: sorting files by filename or content before compression can save large amounts of space by exposing redundancy to the compressor. Examples and comparisons of different sorts.
Source: The sort --key Trick, an article by Gwern Branwen.
Python’s standard
datetimemodule is very powerful. However, it has a couple of annoying flaws.
Source: Dates And Times And Types.
A new and shiny version of Perl, 5.36 has been released last week. It contains a lot of very nice improvements and new features. As I'm also currently starting a fresh project, I decided it's a good time to build a new docker (in fact podman) base image to use for some new apps / scripts etc.
Source: A Dockerfile for Perl 5.36 / Alpine, with working SSL, an article by Thomas Klausner.
We had a tricky debugging need at work: we wanted to track how an attribute on an object was changing.
Source: Adding a dunder to an object, an article by Ned Batchelder.