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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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Different techniques for debugging code - 2019 December 17
An overview of various techniques that you can use for debugging.
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Finding the versions of imported modules in Python code - 2019 December 12
In many situations you want to be able to find the version of a package that has been imported from your code. This isn't anywhere near as straightforward as it would seem, here's a few options to do this.
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Page requests to the metal - Backend implementation - 2019 November 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 backend portion of the stack.
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Page requests to the metal - Backend - What happens on the server - 2019 November 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 backend portion of the stack.
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Page requests to the metal - frontend - 2019 November 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 frontend.
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Page requests to the metal - hardware level - 2019 November 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 way in which this happens in hardware on the chips themselves.
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Page requests to the metal - introduction - 2019 November 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.
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Page requests to the metal - Network stack - From frontend to backend - 2019 November 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 Network stack which connects the frontend to the backend in our web app.
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Debloating - 2019 November 23
A practical example of why debloating is a good way to reduce the vulnerability surface.
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