Posted on February 25, 2017 by Jaime Buelta

Compendium of Wondrous Links vol XI

It has been a while since the last time. More food for though!

Python

Python 3 upgrade strategy. The time has come to take migrating to python 3 seriously.
Another addition to Python-to-c++ compilers, in a similar way to Cython: Pythran. I tested it with code from my recent post $7.11 in four prices and the Decimal type, revisited and it worked quite well, though it’s arguably a very simple test. Speed was quite good, better than Cython, actually.
Powering the Python PyPI. These people deserve a lot of credit. PyPI is really important for the Python environment.
Check the memory usage of a Python program is not very easy, but there are some tools to help with that.

A good flow to choose the proper HTTP status code to return.
A good overview of available tools to check performance in the first 60 seconds login into a Linux server.
You’ll be glad when you have to check your logs. How to write a great error message.
I use ag (the silver searcher), but this is a great article about a similar tool built up to speed. Ripgrep. (and a follow up from Geoff Greer, the maker of ag making them more compatible, which is fantastic)
SAWS: A Supercharged AWS CLI, to help dealing with all those AWS commands. They are a lot.

Computers are fast. Even if you see a lot of delays from time to time, they do a lot of stuff each second. Try to guess with this questionnaire.

The perfect man. I find quite fascinating the lives of people so driven by competitiveness.
Dealing with incentives is always more complicated that it looks like. The Cobra effect.

The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment. An interesting though about Bitcoin.
A 1980 documentary about the music of Star Wars (mainly The Empire Strikes Back)
Magic the Gathering: Twenty years, twenty lessons. Great for insight in games design.