Shallow and Pedantic

A person/tech/code blog of a coder/techie/person. Like calculus in a kiddie pool, the author of this blog is known to be quite shallow and pedantic.

FakeFile

Ohad Lutzky published on 2014-07-02

A tiny python library for faking out filesystem operations for tests.

Ohad Lutzky published on 2014-06-22

How file descriptor leaks are causing your processes to stick around longer than they should.

Ohad Lutzky published on 2014-04-26

A feature proposal for avoiding spoilers on social networks.

Ohad Lutzky published on 2014-01-05

Distinguishing EPERM vs EACCESS and how that helps debug file manipulation scripts.

Ohad Lutzky published on 2013-12-11

Starting new java processes in your scripts considered harmful. Let’s compare “hello world” startup times for different languages.

Ohad Lutzky published on 2013-12-02

When comparing long strings in unit tests, make sure your assertion failures give you useful output.