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When you’re creating a Python package, one of the nice things is that you can just add a .py source file to the package directory, and then users can import it right away.

Ticks can be attracted across air gaps several times larger than themselves by the static electricity that their hosts naturally accumulate, researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered.

Our team had some fun experimenting with Python 3.9-nogil, the results of which will be reported in an upcoming blog post. In the meantime, we saw an opportunity to dive deeper into the history of the global interpreter lock (GIL), including why it makes Python so easy to integrate with and the tradeoff between ease and performance.

As developers, we often find ourselves working in multiple tmux panes, each running different applications or instances of the same application. When we make changes to a configuration file, such as ~/.vimrc for Vim or ~/.aliases for our shell, we need to manually reload that configuration in each relevant instance. This can be a time-consuming process, especially when working with a large number of panes. But also, let's be wizards and automate this process!

In this post, we'll explore a simple automation that can save you a lot of time and effort. We'll focus on a specific use case — reloading a .vimrc file across all Vim instances in tmux panes — but the pattern can be applied to a variety of scenarios.