🔔 Update (June 30, 2026) Great news, the maintainer, Dhruv Bhanushali (@dhruvkb), saw this post and is fixing the PyPI confusion. The Rust version is being published to PyPI agai...
tl;dr; I cut 3.2 GB of memory usage from our Python web apps using five techniques: async workers, import isolation, the Raw+DC database pattern, local imports for heavy libraries, and disk-based cach...
TL;DR; After migrating three production Python web apps from MongoEngine to the Raw+DC database pattern, I measured nearly 2x the requests per second, 18% less memory, and gained native async support....
TL;DR; I converted Python Bytes from Quart/Flask to the Rust-backed Robyn framework and benchmarked it with Locust. There was no meaningful speed or memory improvement - and Robyn actually used more ...
TL;DR; Chameleon-robyn is a new Python package I created that brings Chameleon template support to the Robyn web framework. If you prefer Chameleon’s structured, HTML-first approach over Jinja and wan...
TL;DR; Python’s asyncio.create_task() can silently garbage collect your fire-and-forget tasks starting in Python 3.12 - they may never run. The fix: store task references in a set and register a done...
TL;DR; No - AI won’t kill open source, but it will reshape it. Small, single-purpose packages (micro open source) are likely to languish as AI agents write trivial utility code on the fly. But major f...
Have you heard that the age of hyper-personal software is upon us? Typically what people mean is that agentic AI allows the creation of simple and small software built by individuals, often not super ...
Recently I have started going Raw+DC on my databases. I think I love it. Let me explain. TL;DR; After 25+ years championing ORMs, I’ve switched to raw database queries paired with Python dataclasses. ...
TL;DR: I built Command Book, a native macOS app that gives your long-running terminal commands a permanent home. Free to download at commandbookapp.com. Terminal pain points I’ve been a terminal powe...