It has been a while since the last time. More food for though!

Python

• Python 3 upgrade strategy. The time has come to take migrating to python 3 seriously.
• Another addition to Python-to-c++ compilers, in a similar way to Cython: Pythran. I tested it with code from my recent post $7.11 in four prices and the Decimal type, revisited and it worked quite well, though it’s arguably a very simple test. Speed was quite good, better than Cython, actually.
• Powering the Python PyPI. These people deserve a lot of credit. PyPI is really important for the Python environment.
• Check the memory usage of a Python program is not very easy, but there are some tools to help with that.

The craft of development and tools

• A good flow to choose the proper HTTP status code to return.
• A good overview of available tools to check performance in the first 60 seconds login into a Linux server.
• You’ll be glad when you have to check your logs. How to write a great error message.
• I use ag (the silver searcher), but this is a great article about a similar tool built up to speed. Ripgrep. (and a follow up from Geoff Greer, the maker of ag making them more compatible, which is fantastic)
• SAWS: A Supercharged AWS CLI, to help dealing with all those AWS commands. They are a lot.

The environment of development

• A take on Employee retention, even if they start by saying not call it that.
• How to destroy Programmer Productivity.
• A take on Employee retention, even if they start by saying not call it that.
• How to destroy Programmer Productivity
• The website obesity crisis.
• Inseparable from magic. Manufacturing modern computer chips. Really impressive.

• Randomness is actually very difficult.

• Computers are fast. Even if you see a lot of delays from time to time, they do a lot of stuff each second. Try to guess with this questionnaire.

Miscellanea

• The perfect man. I find quite fascinating the lives of people so driven by competitiveness.
• Dealing with incentives is always more complicated that it looks like. The Cobra effect.

• The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment. An interesting though about Bitcoin.
• A 1980 documentary about the music of Star Wars (mainly The Empire Strikes Back)
• Magic the Gathering: Twenty years, twenty lessons. Great for insight in games design.