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.
A tiny python library for faking out filesystem operations for tests.
How file descriptor leaks are causing your processes to stick around longer than they should.
A feature proposal for avoiding spoilers on social networks.
Distinguishing EPERM
vs EACCESS
and how that helps debug file manipulation scripts.
Starting new java processes in your scripts considered harmful. Let’s compare “hello world” startup times for different languages.
When comparing long strings in unit tests, make sure your assertion failures give you useful output.