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Kubernetes v1.25 introduced Container Checkpointing API as an alpha feature. This provides a way to backup-and-restore containers running in Pods, without ever stopping them. This feature is primarily aimed at forensic analysis, but general backup-and-restore is something any Kubernetes user ...
The hardest things are all in your head
Command line bars you can quickly summon with a keyboard shortcut
This game was easier when I was a kid
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The infrastructure lies we tell ourselves, and why they're useful.
Google has literally hundreds of APIs, including ones for Gmail, Drive, Maps, Translation, Analytics and more. All of these share the same concepts like authorization, pagination or media uploads/downloads. In this article we will explore all of these concepts and ...
It's Halloween, but this isn't a Stranger Things reference
Reading specific file types (JSON, YAML, TOML) In the previous post, we have seen how to read files in golang, in this extended post of that part, we will look
A little direction goes a long way
Small, scoped areas within a graphical interface that allow users to read and write simple programmes
Introduction In the 22nd post of the series, we will be looking into the file-handling process in golang, in the next few posts, we will cover the operations on
Out-of-the-box, Python standard library ships with many great libraries some of which provide commandline interface (CLI), allowing us to do many cool things directly from terminal without needing to even open a `.py` file. This includes things like starting a ...
Precision matters on details
simultanous branches for truly scattered development
Python provides a lot of ways to ask questions about your code. Whether it's basic things like `help()` function, builtin functions like `dir()` or more advanced methods in `inspect` module - the tools are there to help you find the ...
Introduction In the 21st post of the series, we will be exploring the file paths in golang, we will be exploring how we can deal with paths. By using packages l
Every Python developer is familiar with the `self` argument, which is present in every* method signature of every class. We all know how to use it, but do you _really_ know what it is, why it's there and how it ...
A love letter to tools that changed everything for me.
Introduction Error handling is quite an important feature of any programming language to improve the quality and transparency between the user and the applicati
I started watching YouTube sailing videos in about 2014 when I discovered Sailing la Vagabonde. I’d never really considered that sailing was something I could be interested in, I didn’t know anything about it at all. I remember being on ...
Introduction In the 19th post of the series, we will be taking a look into interfaces in golang. Interfaces allow us to create function signatures common to dif
Python's list comprehensions (and generators) are an awesome feature that can greatly simplify your code. Most of the time however, we only use them to write a single `for` loop, maybe with addition of one `if` conditional and that's it. ...
I recently stumbled upon an article about the Weierstrass Function, which led me to another article about Pathological Objects in mathematics—meaning functions, numbers, etc., that have deviant, irregular, or counterintuitive properties. There was a time when even the introduction of ...
I don't think it's too much of a stretch to say that software is part of most scientific research now. From astronomy, to neuroscience, to chemistry, to climate models. If you work in research that hasn't been affected by software ...
People reappropriating existing software to solve their own unique problems
The scrolling checks box on Github really irritates me. Follow these instructions to make it full height on Firefox. 1. Take this CSS: .branch-action-item.open > .merge-status-list-wrapper > .merge-status-list, .branch-action-item.open > .merge-status-list { max-height: fit-content !important; } 2. Tell Firefox to ...
Github notifications can be overwhelming, but with effective email filtering they can be turned from an encumbrance to being highly valuable. Here’s some filters to get you started (in Mail.app on a mac) to make them more useful. Luckily Github ...
The assignment operator - or "walrus operator" as we all know it - is a feature that's been in Python for a while now (since 3.8), yet it's still somewhat controversial and many people have unfounded hate for it. In ...
Introduction In the previous part of the series, we covered and in this section, we will look into which are quite a cool concept for various things. Closures a
Introduction Have you ever used the Postgres database and did you know you don't have to launch PGAdmin every time you want to write SQL queries, you can write
