Learned sth new today, mutable default function args in Python are bad - see: medium.com/geekculture/do… #python

As it's been ~3 years, figured I'll answer "What caused the Uber Eats glitch that allowed ordering free food for a weekend in India?" This was an outage on my watch. Given Quora is paywalled - can't post the answer w/o a sub - here's the story on idempotency & breaking changes:

Why is {} faster than dict() in #python? Check the bytecode with the dis module of both to see why. More: opensource.com/article/18/4/i…

Currently reading Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann. Must read for everyone in data imho to get the fundamentals right. dataintensive.net

Python GIL very well explained: tenthousandmeters.com/blog/python-be…

Do you know any micro-optimisations for #Python? Small changes to your code that make it run faster, even if just a little? Hit me. Even if it would earn you a 🤨🤯 in a code review. I’m interested.

Awesome collection of academic CS papers, including e.g. Amazon‘s DynamoDB or Facebook‘s Tao for data stores github.com/papers-we-love… #computerscience

What to look for in a code review? Loved that guide by Google, especially the part about appreciating good things as well. google.github.io/eng-practices/… #codereview #SoftwareEngineering

Two robots dancing at the Tesla shareholders meeting 🕺🏻😄

A few random notes from claude coding quite a bit last few weeks. Coding workflow. Given the latest lift in LLM coding capability, like many others I rapidly went from about 80% manual+autocomplete coding and 20% agents in November to 80% agent coding and 20% edits+touchups in