1. Daily writing goal - 2020 March 23

    Over the last year I've lamented that I've been too busy to write regularly. Due to the worldwide events that are going on I've decided I will aim to write something every day even if I don't publish it.


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  2. Preparing for a break from playing billiards - 2020 March 22

    With the upcoming shutdown of places like pool halls from coronavirus I'd decided to take some notes about my current game to make it easier to get started again when things are back to normal. I also took my cue home so that I'd have a reminder of what to look forward to doing once the situation gets under control post-lockdown.


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  3. Happy leap day! - 2020 February 29

    Happy leap day!


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  4. What causes Pylint no-member false positives and how to deal with this - 2020 February 17

    SQLAlchemy when used with Pylint complains about some false positives. Here's an explanation of why and what you can do about it.


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  5. Sorting IP addresses in Python - 2020 January 27

    A small example of a way you can sort IP addresses in Python.


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  6. Myriad - 2020 January 07

    TIL that the word myriad originally meant the number 10000.


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  7. Page requests to the metal - Backend web framework - 2019 December 25

    There's a large number of steps of abstraction in the modern web stack. Let's follow through everything that happens in between submitting a form to a very "simple" web app that adds together two numbers from the form. This part focuses on the back end web framework portion of the stack. We use Django as an example here.


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  8. Build system options in 2019 - 2019 December 23

    Build system options in 2019


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  9. RAM usage 50 years after Apollo - 2019 December 19

    Every now and then I see some post that complains about how absurdly heavy in terms of system resources Electron apps are. A few days back I saw a tweet with a simplistic comparison of the amount of RAM available on the Apollo guidance and a modern chat app running in a bloated stack. Something about it just kept bugging me and it wasn't the RAM usage part but more the intellectual sloppiness that such a post encourages, this post exists as my attempt to delve into what I think is going on here.


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  10. Different techniques for debugging code - 2019 December 17

    An overview of various techniques that you can use for debugging.


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