I’ve been itching to write this article since I authored Python vs Copy on Write last year. To recap, I found myself awake at 4 AM trying to performance tune the cache on a long running ETL w…...

A light-weight, extendable, high level, universal code parser built on top of tree-sitter - autosoft-dev/tree-hugger... (more…)

Introduction In this series of posts, I’ll discuss several options for implementing graphs and basic graph aglorithms, mostly from the API and code clarity perspective. All the source code is… (more…)

This should have been obvious to me for a longer time, but until earlier today I did not really realize the severity of the issues caused by str.format on untrusted user input. It came up as a way to bypass the Jinja2 Sandbox in a way that would permit r...

Overview of multiple approaches to encoding categorical values using python...