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Faster Bash Startup
2 Aug 2020
My Bash start-up time is around 1.7 seconds. This doesn’t sound like it’s too bad, but it feels like hours when you want to open a new window to only… Continue reading →

Hyperfine: Easy benchmarking
18 Jul 2020
Very often, when I want to test the performance of something, most of the time I end up using time. time, however, lacks a certain amount of scientific rigor, it… Continue reading →

Free RSS Aggregation
12 Jul 2020
One of the downsides to the great Reeder app is syncing feeds between Desktop and Mobile. Many services offer this, but they are almost all paid services. The free option… Continue reading →

Mutability and Containers
8 Dec 2019
Containers A container is an object that contains a reference to another object. A common example would be a List. >>> shopping_list = ["milk", "bread", "eggs"] >>> onions = "onions"… Continue reading →

Identity Types and Values
21 Nov 2019
Everything in Python is an object. From an instance of a class to an attribute of that instance and even the class itself. An Object has three basic properties that… Continue reading →