Michael Kennedy's Thoughts on Technology

TL;DR: When Black Friday traffic nearly melted our servers, the bottleneck wasn’t Python.

Python 3.11 is a massive release.

Without a doubt, my most beloved social media platform has been Twitter.

TL;DR: Open your Mastodon instance (e.g., fosstodon.org) in a Chrome-based browser, right-click, and select “Install app.”

[Update Nov 23, 2022: Added perf graphs at the end of this article] TL;DR: Increase Python’s GC allocation threshold from 700 to 50,000 at app startup with gc.set_threshold(50_000, ...) and use gc.freeze() to exclude startup objects.

Running a set of popular websites (e.g. talkpython.fm) means I get a lot of unsolicited emails.

If you work in Python, heads up: The entire source code base for Python has been leaked.