By dismissing the Python garbage collection (GC) mechanism, which reclaims memory by collecting and freeing unused data, Instagram can run… (more…)

For reasons beyond the scope of this blog entry, I'm considering augmenting our Python program to log email attachment information for Exim to use oletools to peer inside MS Office files for indications of bad things. Oletools is not packaged by Ubuntu as... (more…)

Python has gained an absurd amount of momentum in 2019, despite already being a much-used programming language. What's behind this rise? (more…)

Merry Hannukah! I've been trying very hard not to think about anything tech related this week, but also want to keep to a weekly schedule of newsletters.... (more…)

Published February 24, 2020Yesterday, we announced an offical Node.js client for the Sight API. That was a short blog post. For Node.js developers all around the world, we reduced the friction of doing state-of-the-art text recogntion to merely specifying... (more…)