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I wonder if making the index uppercase is strictly better in this sense, or if both upper and lowercase have chars that take more bytes.

I have one weird trick for people who are exploring this vein. I last opened an Xcode project about five years ago so I could be way behind the times. Having spent many years fight…

I've been working on a wrapper harness that runs claude as a separate user named `agent`. I tried this about a year ago and couldn't get it to work because of OAuth and the keychai…

The grocer on my block is so tiny that I hit the max zoom before it shows up. If you pan around fiddle I can occasionally get it to appear, but it effectively does not exist accord…

The suitability of Litestream for production disaster recovery is also an open question in my mind. I used 0.3.x for several years and when I tried to upgrade to the 0.5.x series t…

The simple answer is, I choose to use Python because I am productive with it. I get a lot done compared to the other languages I have tried. Performance is almost never the limitin…

Interesting that "verb" does not appear in the posted article. I immediately thought of Yegge's kingdom of nouns blog post, which is 20 years old last month! I read it a long time …

I’ve casually experimented with this in python a number of times for various hot loops, including those where I’m passing the chunk between c routines. On Apple M1 I’ve never seen …

I tried this with Claude code on macOS. I created a new agent user and a wrapper do run Claude has that user, along with some scripts to set permissions and ownership so that I cou…

My understanding is that many extension modules are already written to take advantage of multithreading by releasing the GIL when calling into C code. This allows true concurrency …

From one “old guy” to another: PJ = private jet Diamond hands and to the moon are crypto trader slang Makes me laugh answering this question, because the meaning is all there if yo…

I wrote a very rudimentary schema and automatic migration system for SQLite. One problem that I ran into recently was deploying changes that spanned two migrations, because the too…

For the record, I started using Xcode before it was called that and people have said this almost every year since. As I recall there was a big hit to its quality when they converte…

Speaking for myself, managing a team of 3, the simpler management interface on Hetzner compared to AWS is a major professional advantage.

This may be outdated because git’s defaults have improved a lot over the years. When I first used git on a team was in 2011. As I recall, there were various commands like git log -…

I’ve idly wondered about this sort of thing quite a bit. The next step would seem to be taking a project’s implementation dependent tests, converting them to an independent format …

I appreciate the even tempered question. I’ve been using mypy since its early days, and when pyright was added to vs code I was forced to reckon with their differences. For the mos…

I jumped through a bunch of hoops to get claude code to run as a dedicated user on macOS. This allowed me to set the group ownership and permissions of my work to control exactly w…

My first programming "job" was a sort of summer internship when I was 14 for a family owned company called Signature Systems (signature.net). They are still in business. Their prod…

One tidbit that I don't see mentioned here yet is that ATTACH requires a lock. I just went looking for the documentation about this and couldn't find it, especially for WAL mode ( …

The servers are always beefy and the software is always blazingly fast. Blazingly beefy is my new joke trademark.

I have never seen the word “partition” used in this way before. Hard to search for examples because unrelated computer graphics articles about surface partitioning dominate. I did …

Speaking only for myself, and in all sincerity: every year, there is some feature of the latest CPython version that makes a bigger difference to my work than faster execution woul…

I’ll second this, and add that docstrings are becoming ever more useful as modern editors learn how to show them inline when I hover over a symbol. Starlette lacks docstrings entir…

I paid for a subscription to both cursor and zed, without configuring any different LLMs or other options as far as I recall.