Why trying to make accidents rarer can actually make them more common
excerpt from How Complex Systems Fail
Notes on Site Reliability Engineering, by Google
For my own reference, here are notes I took while reading Google’s book on SRE.
Using Perl Moose's "before" method modifier to modify parameters
A small trick to make “before” a bit more powerful, a bit more useful, and a bit more dangerous.
One-liner to analyze Python programs
The great benefit of knowing the command-line is being able to write scripts to analyze scripts, all in ~1 minute.
Catches for traditional programmers when learning Python
After a lifetime of programming and compsci education, I’ve had some issues learning with Python. It screws me up in small ways. It’s a wonderful language, but dear god I wish these things were different.