09 December 2024

Storing times for human events

Interesting idea that actually makes sense - don’t store user events in UTC. Instead store the user’s intent time and the location/timezone.

Circumventing Python’s GIL With Asyncio

Python is single-threaded, but you can use asyncio to write async code.

Data-Informed, NOT Data-Driven

Good article about the danger of trusting the data.

Modernizing a Legacy Endpoint and Why It’s Worth It: a Step-by-Step Guide

How to take an old, monolithic endpoint and split and modernize it without breaking anything.

My review is stuck - what now?

Your PR review can stall for a number of reasons. Here’s some ideas to get it moving again.

Exploring the browser rendering process

All the steps taken by a browser to render a web pages, starting with DNS lookup and ending with painting pixels on the screen. But it doesn’t go on to talk about Javascript.