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TL;DR Note: here is Part 1 and Part 2 CandyStore has reached v1.0 – the O(1) key-value store now has true crash consistency, a stable file format, and an overall simpler design.

We (Sweet Security) published a post on Reddit to tell the Rust community about CandyStore, our fast key-value store, and I feel there were some recurring themes that I did not address on the first post.

TL;DR Note: here is Part 2 Sweet Security has just released CandyStore - a very fast Key-Value Store in Rust with negligible memory overhead and unique features like lists and queues.

So it turns out my last post, D for the Win got all over the place.

I’m a convert!

As you may already know, I’m a type-system junkie.

Python is a multi-paradigm (hybrid) language.

Spending most of our time (as developers) in the high-level world, it’s easy to occasionally forget the true nature of our systems and how fragile they really are.

Just a short rant: I’m working on an interactive console used for debugging a computer cluster.

I thought it’d be useful to publish some of the seminars/technical papers that I worked on when studying at Tel Aviv University, instead of letting them rot in a drawer.

I have to admit that my day-to-day life involves very little algorithmic problems, but here and there I get a chance to think.

Abstract Travolta NXT, the dancing robot, reads color-coded dance instructions from a strip of paper and then performs the dance, in front of the astonished audience.

I’m working on Construct 3 again and I’m exploring lots of new ideas.

Okay, I’ve been slacking off and I feel I’ve got some explaining to do… Allow me to start by admitting that I lied.

It’s kind of funny how things turn out.

After 5 months in the oven, I’ve finally released Plumbum v1.0, which brings forth a host of bug-fixes, improvements and new features.

TL;DR: Just show me the code I recently got back to web development for some venture I’m working on, which reminded me just how lousy the state of the art is.

I’m finding myself pondering quite a lot lately over the upcoming Singularity (in its Kurzweilesque sense).

This is a time of change in my life.

I was working together with a colleague on a complex distributed test-automation solution on top of RPyC, and we looked for a way to make our existing codebase RPyC-friendly (without altering it).

Tada!

Considering the reactions to the previous post in this series, my intent was obviously misunderstood.

I’m working nowadays on refactoring a large Python codebase at my workplace, and I wanted to share some of my insights over two some aspects of large-scale projects: exceptions, logging, and a bit on coding style.

A colleague of mine, Gavrie Philipson, has written an interesting blog post titled Why I Don’t Like RPC, in which he explains that transparent/seamless RPCs (a la RPyC) make debugging and reasoning efforts hard.

Some Background I’m working on an image processing project for the university, whose purpose is to embed (an extract) a print-scan resilient watermark into an image.

As I said in the previous blog post, I hoped for v3.2.2 to be the last release of the 3.2 line… Naturally, I was wrong :) Turns out the fix for issue #76 was buggy, and I decided to finally remove the use of excepthooks in favor of taking care of remote t…

This is a maintenance release, fixing some issues concerning introspection, ForkingServer and signals, IronPython and signals, and SSH on Windows.

It’s been a long while since I’ve put time into Construct.

It’s been a while since I last blogged… sorry!

Yet another university-related post, but I really enjoyed it so I thought I’d share: for a GUI- workshop I’m taking, we are given GUI-layout constraints as a system of linear equations, which we need to satisfy.

I’m working on a parser for Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) for this seminar I’m taking.

This is a maintenance release, fixing some minor bugs and resolving some issues with Python 3 compatibility.

As I promised in the code-generation using context managers post, I wanted to review some more, rather surprising, examples where context managers prove handy.

Following my Deducible UI post, and following some of the criticism it had received, I’d like to share something I’ve been working on (read: experimenting with) at my work place.

Hurrah!

Too much Wireshark…

When I was working on Agnos, a cross-language RPC framework, I had a lot of code-generation to do in a variety of languages (Python, Java, C#, and C++).

A Brief History I like automating things.

I got some reactions to the Infix Operators post, and wanted to point out some things.

At last, I finished migrating the old drupal site to github pages.

As you may already know, there are 3 kinds of operators calling-notations: prefix (+ 3 5), infix (3 + 5), and postfix (3 5 +).

This is Foxx0rz, our course’ mascot.

לקט ציטוטים שאספתי במהלך התיכון.

RPyC is in the process of migrating from http://rpyc.wikidot.com to it’s new (and hopefully final) location at http://rpyc.sourceforge.net.

Phew!

I really love Python… it’s so hackable that it just calls for hacking, inspiring your imagination to find ways to stretch its boundaries.

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