Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, gr... (more…)

A piece on my new web development stack following my ongoing work on three Nuxt applications... (more…)

This is mentioned during an exchange on Twitter with @brettcannon (which later spun into the Big Picture thread). I figure I should probably open a dedicated thread about this so more people know about it, and to summarise my ideas. The situation Python ... (more…)

Python has a function called sys.getrefcount() that tells you the reference count of an object. For example, the following code,import sysprint sys.getrefco... (more…)

At Datadog, we're really into metrics. We love them, we store them, but we also generate them. To do that, you need to juggle with integers that are incremented, also known as counters. While having an integer that changes its value sounds dull, it might ... (more…)