This is a quick guide to Python’s asyncio module and is based on Python version 3.8. Introduction asyncio concurrent.futures Event Loop Awaitables Coroutines Tasks Futures Running an asyncio program Running Async Code in the REPL Use another Event Loo... (more…)

Given the popularity of Python it is safe to say pip is likely one of the most important tools for software development and broadly… (more…)

Python has evolved since Flask was first released, particularly with the introduction of asyncio. Keeping the Flask-API but switching to the asyncio based Quart gives a 3x speedup. (more…)

Part 1 is dev-oriented. I talk about general optimizations that helped create the fastest image resize algorithm for x86 out there... (more…)

I haven't written here in 8 months. Part of the reason for that is that I've swapped jobs. At the old place, I spent about 90% of my time writing C++, and about 10% of the time using other languages, including Python, Perl, web languages, and last, and ... (more…)