Distancing oneself from a difficult problem
I fixed a silly bug just now and wrote working code that can pin multiple virtual CPUs to the physical CPUs. Identifying the bug in my code was another classic ...
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Swapping values of two variables with XOR
As programmers, we know that we can swap two variables by using a temporary variable. That’s fairly simple and intuitive: given two variables (x and y) that you...
Here’s some assembly instructions … now write the corresponding C code
A wide grin formed on my face, after successfully completing an exercise (from Computer Systems a Programmer’s perspective) that required me to write C co...
Let’s get lower than Python
Like a huge swath of other millennial, I dibbled and dabbled in building websites —writing in html, css, and javascript—during my youth, but these days, I prima...
SpeedCurve Library: Travis CI + coverage + tox
I’m writing a python library (speedcurve.py). At work, we’re using SpeedCurve to track our web performance. SpeedCurve’schangelog reveals can ...
Implementing Licenses API for github3.py
I came across this license issue while searching on GitHub. So, I thought I’d give it a shot. I pinged sigmavirus24 in #github3.py seeing if this was a fe...
Contributing to github3.py
I’ve always been scared of open sourcing, despite wanting to get involved for a long time? Why? For a long time, I’ve programmed in isolation. But, ...
Mocking boto exception
I was getting so frustrated. I knew how to raise the exception with side_effect=. But, how do you mock the exception? try: connection = connect_to_sqs except Bo...