Despite the term
asyncand its association with asynchronous network I/O, this blog post argues that the Tokio runtime at the heart of the Rustasyncecosystem is also a good choice for CPU-heavy jobs such as those found in analytics engines.
Source: Using Rustlang’s Async Tokio Runtime for CPU-Bound Tasks, an article by Andrew Lamb.
$WORKTo me, the two core features of Stacked Git are (1) allowing you to name your commits, and (2) to navigate among them. Together, they create a wonderful companion to help you keep your history clean.
Source: How I Use Stacked Git at
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A long-anticipated recalibration of radiocarbon dating could shift the age of some prehistoric samples hundreds of years.
Source: Carbon dating, the archaeological workhorse, is getting a major reboot, an article by Nicola Jones.
In the afternoon I finished The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly. An excellent read, highly recommended.
SimpleNamespaceWhen testing Python code you may need a mock object. That’s okay! But what’s the best way to build a simple mock?
Source: Make Simple Mocks With SimpleNamespace, an article by Adam Johnson.
If you've done any coding in Python, there's a good chance that you've used a number in one of your programs. For instance, you may have used an integer to specify the index of a value in a list.
But there's much more to numbers in Python than just their raw values. Let's look at three things about numbers in Python that you might not be aware of.
Source: 3 Things You Might Not Know About Numbers in Python, an article by David Amos.
Having finally gotten used to each other's existence, Brad and Dusty must now deal with their intrusive fathers during the holidays.
In the evening we watched Daddy's Home 2. I liked the previous movie more and give the sequel a 6 out of 10.
The descriptor protocol allow us to completely customize attribute access. Python’s documentation describes the protocol with types involved described with words. Let’s look at how we can write those as type hints.
Source: Python Type Hints - How to Type a Descriptor, an article by Adam Johnson.
The
Rust 1.58.0update brought a nice addition that will be familiar to dynamic language users.
Source: Format Strings in 1.58.
SSH bastion hosts are an indispensable security enforcement stack for secure infrastructure access. Every security compliance standard that deals with remote infrastructure access (e.g., FedRAMP AC-17 - Remote Access, HIPAA §164.312(a)(1) - Access control, SOC2 CC6.1 - Manage Points of Access) mandates preventing direct network access to the servers and APIs. Although it is relatively easy to deploy a bastion host in your infrastructure, it should be noted that securing a bastion host requires careful consideration from design to deployment. After all, bastion hosts are the first target for attackers looking to compromise access to infrastructure.
Source: SSH Bastion host best practices: How to Build and Deploy a Security-Hardened SSH Bastion Host, an article by Sakshyam Shah.
In this article, you will learn how packets flow inside and outside a Kubernetes cluster. Starting from the initial web request and down to the container hosting the application.
Source: Tracing the path of network traffic in Kubernetes, an article by Kristijan Mitevski.
Some time ago the urllib3 team noticed that our Python 3.11 test suite started failing with a strange error.
Source: Problems with testing Python pre-releases and pip caching, an article by Seth Michael Larson.
I’m maintaining a lot of different projects at the moment. I thought it would be useful to describe the process I use for adding a new feature to one of them, using the new sqlite-utils create-database command as an example.
I like each feature to be represented by what I consider to be the perfect commit—one that bundles together the implementation, the tests, the documentation and a link to an external issue thread.
Source: How I build a feature, an article by Simon Willison.
Data-oriented programming (DOP) is not a new concept. It's a paradigm that can be used by developers in any programming language, it's purpose is to reduce complexity of information system that they are designing.
Source: Data-Oriented Programming is dope, an article by Xavier Barbosa.
One of the strongest sides of Go programming language is a built-in concurrency based on Tony Hoare’s CSP paper. Go is designed with concurrency in mind and allows us to build complex concurrent pipelines. But have you ever wondered - how various concurrency patterns look like?
Source: Visualizing Concurrency in Go, an article by Ivan Danyliuk.
If you need to use MySQL or MariaDB, never use “utf8”. Always use “utf8mb4” when you want UTF-8. Convert your database now to avoid headaches later.
Source: In MySQL, never use “utf8”. Use “utf8mb4”, an article by Adam Hooper.
In this article, I’ll show you 20 smaller C++20 things that are very handy and good to know. Ten language elements, and ten more for the Standard Library. Most of them with a cool example.
Source: 20 Smaller yet Handy C++20 Features.
Here’s a very quick “how to” post on how to find your domain’s authoritative nameserver.
I’m writing this because if you made a DNS update and it didn’t work, there are 2 options:
- Your authoritative nameserver doesn’t have the correct record
- Your authoritative nameserver does have the correct record, but an old record is cached and you need to wait for the cache to expire
To be able to tell which one is happening (do you need to make a change, or do you just need to wait?), you need to be able to find your domain’s authoritative nameserver and query it to see what records it has.
Source: How to find a domain's authoritative nameservers, an article by Julia Evans.
Use events instead of repetitious logging calls to avoid a well-known code smell.
Source: Logging is a code smell, an article by Dave Jarvis.
In the evening I finished the age of madness book 2: The Trouble with Peace. I liked the book: recommended.
There’s chaos in Hollywood at the end of the New Year’s Eve countdown. Working her graveyard shift, LAPD detective Renée Ballard waits out the traditional rain of lead as hundreds of revelers shoot their guns into the air. Only minutes after midnight, Ballard is called to a scene where a hardworking auto shop owner has been fatally hit by a bullet in the middle of a crowded street party.
Ballard quickly concludes that the deadly bullet could not have fallen from the sky and that it is linked to another unsolved murder—a case at one time worked by Detective Harry Bosch. At the same time, Ballard hunts a fiendish pair of serial rapists, the Midnight Men, who have been terrorizing women and leaving no trace.
Determined to solve both cases, Ballard feels like she is constantly running uphill in a police department indelibly changed by the pandemic and recent social unrest. It is a department so hampered by inertia and low morale that Ballard must go outside to the one detective she can count on: Harry Bosch. But as the two inexorable detectives work together to find out where old and new cases intersect, they must constantly look over their shoulders. The brutal predators they are tracking are ready to kill to keep their secrets hidden.
In the evening I started in The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly.