By dismissing the Python garbage collection (GC) mechanism, which reclaims memory by collecting and freeing unused data, Instagram can run…...

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I wanted to make a font based on my handwriting using only free software. It turns out that FontForge can be scripted with Python. I know just a little about Python and even less about typography, but I managed to hack together something that worked for m... (more…)

The debate around privacy and anonymity on the internet really grinds my gears, because tbh shouldn’t it be everyone’s basic right to make a script to vote 10,000 times from 10,000 diff… (more…)

Python makes concurrency easy. It took less than an hour to add multiprocessing to my blog engine, First Crack, and I have used it often since. Everyone likes to call premature optimization the root of all evil, but architecting programs for concurrent ex... (more…)