Today I realized #go and #rust both have panics instead of exceptions and both originate from the second half of the 2000s. These facts are now mentioned in https://gato-lang.dev/ If you have experience with Go or Rust, I'm interested in your thoughts on the lack of exceptions in these […]

If you have an Intel Raptor Lake system and you're in the northern hemisphere, chances are that your machine is crashing more often because of the summer heat. I know because I can literally see which EU countries have been affected by heat waves by looking at the locales of Firefox crash […]

I've just released a new version of https://github.com/Changaco/python-memory-inventory Analyse the memory usage of #python modules for fun and profit; now with #django support!

If like me you still use #firefox and you find the new way of selecting a search engine in the URL bar to be annoyingly inefficient, you can get the old way back by toggling the browser.urlbar.scotchBonnet.enableOverride setting to false.

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I've just published a new Python module: https://github.com/Changaco/python-memory-inventory It's an interesting little tool that tries to find all the Python objects in memory and compiles statistics on them. Did you know that Python creates quite a few […] [Original post on mastodon.cloud]

Yesterday someone reported that the recursion limit isn't fully enforced in Python 3.13: https://discuss.python.org/t/infinite-recursion/88900 Today I accidentally discovered a segmentation fault introduced in Python 3.12: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/132747 What a weekend […]

Today I realized I wasn't following any specific feed to stay updated on web features becoming widely available in browsers. I couldn't find exactly what I was looking for, but https://web.dev/static/blog/feed.xml is pretty close. Other relevant links: - https://webstatus.dev/ - […]

Today is the 8th anniversary of @Liberapay's launch. Coincidentally, I have an announcement to make. I'm looking for someone to open a new chapter in the project's history by becoming its second maintainer. That doesn't mean it's a programming job, although help in that area is always welcome […]