Julia Evans
Person on 4 sites
Writes jvns.ca, a blog explaining networking, debugging and Linux internals in plain language and comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming…
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4 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
Who people, organisations and podcasts are, and how they connect, with sources.
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5 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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6 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Sharing code between classes via inheritance in Python tends to produce a bad experience. (opens korrents.com)
“I've never had a good experience using inheritance in Python and I don't think I'll try to use it again.”
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When diagnosing a performance problem, starting with a CPU profile is more useful than checking database queries first. (opens korrents.com)
“I've been running into a variety of performance issues (like this template caching thing) that are not because of slow queries, so instead it's been more useful for me so far to start by running a CPU profile.”
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SQLite is a fine production database for a small site, but running it well is more complicated than the "SQLite in production is totally fine" blog posts make it sound. (opens korrents.com)
“I read a bunch of blog posts about how it is totally fine to use SQLite in production for a small site and I think it is totally fine, but what I did not fully appreciate is that SQLite is still a database, databases…”
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Sharing code between classes via inheritance in Python tends to produce a bad experience. (opens korrents.com)
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17 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Helix (opens rcmnd.app)
“One of my favourite things about Helix is the search!”
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fish shell (opens rcmnd.app)
“In 10 years of using fish I have never found a single thing I wanted to configure. It just works the way I want.”
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The Linux Programming Interface (opens rcmnd.app)
“The Linux Programming Interface by Michael Kerrisk – an exhaustive reference on how Linux works. There are about a million chapters, but every individual chapter is pretty short and I find it quite readable.”
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Helix (opens rcmnd.app)