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.

Lessons learned

Ohad Lutzky published on 2014-08-13

Some lessons learned from my role with the previous company as a DevOps engineer and team lead. We discuss tidiness and prioritizing using pre-existing code.

FakeFile

Ohad Lutzky published on 2014-07-02

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

Fun with file descriptor leaks

Ohad Lutzky published on 2014-06-22

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

Social network spoiler prevention

Ohad Lutzky published on 2014-04-26

A feature proposal for avoiding spoilers on social networks.

Weird permission issues with tvnamer

Ohad Lutzky published on 2014-01-05

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

Startup times

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.