2020-05-12 : Random Geekery

Shaved three seconds off site build time!

And I spent two days doing it. So let’s see. If I somehow post every day, that work should pay off somewhere around — counts on fingers — 2026?

Okay I did other stuff besides microoptimization, but still. I am amused.

Matrix, Slack, Rocket, Riot

Gonna make my own chat service and call it p9j0fd so that people can do a keyword search and get useful results.

Perl version of my site utilities all run much faster than their Python predecessors. This leads me to the obvious question:

How awful was my Python code?

Much as I appreciate the Perl-flavored support of my blurt, it’s no good. I know too many competent Python programmers.

And heck I’ve melted databases with Python, so I know it’s at least as capable of horrifying production disasters at scale as Perl.