__all__Every now and then, I get a PR from a well-meaning contributor trying to add
__all__to a Python module for whatever reason. I always decline these, they are unnecessary (at least for the way I structure my code) and I thought I’d write a short post explaining why.
Source: You Don’t Need all, an article by James Turk.
In this post I want to provide you with a practical introduction to structured concurrency. I will do my best to explain what it is, why it's relevant, and how you can start applying it to your rust projects today. Structured concurrency is a lens I use in almost all of my reasoning about async Rust, and I think it might help others too.
Source: Tree-Structured Concurrency, an article by Yoshua Wuyts.
Recently I've been using Twain for all of my newer web apps instead of Scotty and previously Spock, and I wanted to share why.
Source: Why I use the Twain web framework.
On a quiet day, away from the hustle of Richmond, in a small cottage on the Virginia coast, Dr. Kay Scarpetta receives a disturbing phone call from the Chesapeake police. Thirty feet deep in the murky waters of Virginia's Elizabeth River, a scuba diver's body is discovered near the Inactive Naval Shipyard.As the police begin searching for clues, the wallet of investigative reporter Ted Eddings is found.
Unnerved by the possible identity of the victim, Scarpetta orders the crime scene roped off and left alone until she arrives. What was he doing there, searching for Civil War relics as the officer suggested, or was there a bigger story? As she rifles through the multitude of clues, a second murder hits much closer to home. This new development puts Scarpetta and her colleagues hot on the trail of a military conspiracy.
In the evening I started in Cause of Death, Kay Scarpetta book 7 by Patricia Cornwell.
In the afternoon I finished From Potter's Field, Kay Scarpetta book 6 by Patricia Cornwell. I liked the story.
Every now and then, at work, I find myself discussing git worfklows, commit messages, branching, releasing, versioning, changelogs etc. Since my opinion has remained fairly consistent for the past few years, I found myself repeating the same points a lot, so I wrote it down. This page is the resulting compilation of my opinions on the software development lifecycle (SDLC), without workplace-specific tangeants.
Source: My git worfklow, an article by Jean-Baptiste Doyon.
I’d like to preface this article by saying that it is not an authoritative guide, rather it is just me documenting my experience figuring various things out, in the hope that it’ll be useful or interesting to someone else. I assume some knowledge of Nix and containerization throughout this article.
Source: Adventures in building a Go container with Nix, an article by James Williams.
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.
Source: For Python packages, file structure != API, an article by Ben Hoyt.
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.
Source: What Is the Python GIL and Will They Get Rid of It?.
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
~/.vimrcfor Vim or~/.aliasesfor 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
.vimrcfile across all Vim instances in tmux panes — but the pattern can be applied to a variety of scenarios.
Source: TIL: Automating Command Execution Across All Tmux Panes, an article by François Leblanc.
As I tend to do, I picked a topic to write about that is much larger in scope than I could manage in a reasonable amount of time. Did I learn? Apparently not. This article started off with switching from zsh to fish. Then I thought, "Might as well manage it all with Nix!", which led me to switch to home manager to manage my dotfiles which led me to using Nix everywhere I possibly could.
As expected, using Nix where it's not supported caused some issues. Buckle up, and watch my slow descent into madness (Nix).
Source: NixOS and my Descent into Insanity.
CLI tools hidden in the Python standard library in which Simon Willison wonders what little tools are lurking in the Python standard library, available on any computer with a working Python installation?
An explaination of how to implement practical procedural macros in the Rust programming language. Explains the different types of macros, then shows an implementation of a procedural macro following best practices, focusing on testing and ergonomics. Assumes some familiarity with Rust.
Source: Practical Procedural Macros, an article by Hugo Elhaj-Lahsen.
In this post, we will analyze some data covering years of early adoption of Rust here at Google. At Google, we have been seeing increased Rust adoption, especially in our consumer applications and platforms. Pulling from the over 1,000 Google developers who have authored and committed Rust code as some part of their work in 2022, we’ll address some rumors head-on, both confirming some issues that could be improved and sharing some enlightening discoveries we have made along the way.
Source: Rust fact vs. fiction: 5 Insights from Google's Rust journey in 2022, an article by Lars Bergstrom and Kathy Brennan.
FreeBSD networking and containers (Jails) stacks are very mature and provide lots of useful features … yet for some reason these features are not properly advertised by the FreeBSD project … or not even documented at all.
Source: FreeBSD Jails Containers.
ORMs are one of those things that software writers like to pick on. There are many online articles that go by the same tune: “ORMs are an anti-pattern. They are a toy for startups, but eventually hurt more than help.”
This is an exaggeration. ORMs aren’t bad. Are they perfect? Definitely not, just like anything else in software. At the same time, the criticisms are expected—two years ago, I would’ve agreed with that stereotyped headline wholeheartedly. I’ve had my share of “What do you mean the ORM ran the server out of memory?” incidents.
But in reality, ORMs are more misused than overused.
Is ORM still an 'anti pattern'?, an article by Anh-Tho Chuong.
If you’re doing numeric calculations, NumPy is a lot faster than than plain Python—but sometimes that’s not enough. What should you do when your NumPy-based code is too slow?
Your first thought might be parallelism, but that should probably be the last thing you consider. There are many speedups you can do before parallelism becomes helpful, from algorithmic improvements to working around NumPy’s architectural limitations.
Let’s see why NumPy can be slow, and then some solutions to help speed up your code even more.
Source: When NumPy is too slow, an article by Itamar Turner-Trauring.
The ultimate Python library in building OAuth and OpenID Connect servers. It is designed from low level specifications implementations to high level frameworks integrations, to meet the needs of everyone.
Source: Authlib 1.2.1 documentation.
We have released a new "Cookbook of Self-Supervised Learning,” a practical guide for AI researchers and practitioners on how to navigate SSL recipes, understand its various knobs and levers, and gain the know-how needed to experiment with SSL's untapped flavors. This is part of our efforts to lower the barrier and help democratize access to SSL research. You’ll also find tips and tricks from more than a dozen authors across multiple universities, including New York University, University of Maryland, UC Davis, University of Montreal; as well as leading Meta AI researchers, such as Yann LeCun.
Codon is a high-performance Python compiler that compiles Python code to native machine code without any runtime overhead. Typical speedups over Python are on the order of 100x or more, on a single thread. Codon supports native multithreading which can lead to speedups many times higher still.
The Codon framework is fully modular and extensible, allowing for the seamless integration of new modules, compiler optimizations, domain-specific languages and so on. We actively develop Codon extensions for a number of domains such as bioinformatics and quantitative finance.
Source: Welcome to Codon.
macOS is fortunate to have access to the huge arsenal of standard Unix tools. There are also a good number of macOS-specific command-line utilities that provide unique macOS functionality. To view the full documentation for any of these commands, run
man <command>.
Source: Advanced macOS Commands.
An unidentified nude female sits propped against a fountain in Central Park. There are no signs of struggle. When Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her colleagues Benton Wesley and Pete Marino arrive on the scene, they instantly recognize the signature of serial killer Temple Brooks Gault. Scarpetta, on assignment with the FBI, visits the New York City morgue on Christmas morning, where she must use her forensic expertise to give a name to the nameless—a difficult task. But as she sorts through conflicting forensic clues, Gault claims his next victim. He has infiltrated the FBI’s top secret artificial-intelligence system developed by Scarpetta’s niece, and sends taunting messages as his butchery continues, moving terrifyingly closer to Scarpetta herself.
In the afternoon I started in From Potter's Field, Kay Scarpetta book 6 by Patricia Cornwell.
If you’ve ever had to write a parser before, you know that creating parsers can be a tedious and complicated process. The good news is that it doesn’t have to be this way. In this post, I’m going to introduce parser combinators - a technique for building parsers that I’ve found to be both practical and fun to play around with1.
Source: An Introduction to Parser Combinators, an article by Varun Ramesh.
Gitflow is, by far, the most popular branching model and possibly the one that has endured the test of time the most. Introduced by Vincent Driessen in 2010, its fundamental idea is that you should isolate your work into different types of git branches.
Other branching strategies, such as the centralized workflow (for those teams that come from SVN), and the forking workflow (for open-source projects) exist. Git, as a version control system, only details basic branching operations, and it remains controversial as to which approach is the best. Beyond those basic branching operations, it's a matter of opinion.
> In this article we will compare Gitflow with its newer approach,
GitHub Flow.
Source: Gitflow and GitHub Flow compared: Which one is better?.