Jack Slingerland's Programming & Life Adventures
Python 3.14.0 brings game-changing features: template strings for safer code, free-threaded parallelism, 30% performance improvements, and deferred annotations. Learn what's new with code examples and migration tips. The post Python 3.14.0 is Here: Template Strings, True Parallelism, and 30% Speed Boost first appeared on Re-Cycled Air .
A Compendium of Cosmography (1561) This is an AI translation using OpenAI and Python to slice/dice the text into chunks for processing. See More Translated Works Meta Title: Cosmographicae disciplinae compendiumAuthor: Postel, GuillaumeYear: 1561 Original Text Translation Abstract This document presents the paratexts and dedicatory materials of Guillaume Postel’s Cosmographical Discipline (Basel:…
Pandora, That Is, the Noblest Gift of God (1582) This is an AI translation using OpenAI and Python to slice/dice the text into chunks for processing. Meta Title: Pandora, das ist, Die edleste Gab GottesAuthor: Epimetheus, FranciscusYear: 1582 Original Text Translation Abstract This document, titled “Pandora,” presents a historical perspective on the intersection of alchemy […] The post Pandora,…
One of the challenges I’ve faced with collecting logs in AWS Elastic Beanstalk environments is getting them shipped to a central location efficiently. Recently, I’ve been working with Grafana’s Alloy collector to send logs to Loki, and I wanted to share my setup process for Installing Alloy Collector on Elastic Beanstalk. What is Alloy Collector? […] The post Installing Alloy Collector on Elastic…
Look, we need to talk about your PHP addiction. I get it – you’ve mastered the server-side arts, bent databases to your will, and perhaps even dabbled in our previous dark art of threading. But something’s missing, isn’t it? You look at those fancy JavaScript developers with their client-side rendering and think “why not PHP?” […] The post PHP Dark Arts: Client-Side PHP first appeared on Re-Cycled…
If you’ve noticed that you can’t search for locations on the AccuWeather iOS if you are on a network protected with a Pi-hole, you aren’t alone. To fix it, you need to whitelist the following domain: api.radar.io After that, search will start working with AccuWeather again! The post AccuWeather Search Not Working with Pi-hole first appeared on Re-Cycled Air .
For the past decade I was a software engineer at a number of different companies. At each company I learned a lot of stuff, honed my craft, and eventually decided that I wanted to be a manager. I knew that it was a much different position from being a senior or lead engineer, but I […] The post Things I Learned in my First Year as a Software Engineering Manager first appeared on Re-Cycled Air .
So you have a WordPress site and you are expecting a spike of traffic to it. Do you know when your site will fall over? How many users can be browsing it at once and still have a good experience? If you can’t answer these questions then you need to load test your site! Through […] The post Load Testing the WP Super Cache Plugin with Kernl first appeared on Re-Cycled Air .
In the Beginning In late 2014 I decided that I needed a side project. There were some technologies that I wanted to learn, and in my experience building an actual project was the best way to do that. As I sat on my couch trying to figure out what to build, I remembered an idea […] The post 0 to 1 Million: Scaling my side project to 1 million requests a day first appeared on Re-Cycled Air .
In May of this year I launched the Kernl alpha with hopes that WordPress developers would be interested in it. And interested they were! 6 months later Kernl has over 65 users from all around the globe and a host of new capabilities to make WordPress plugin and theme development easier. For instance, since launch we’ve […] The post Kernl Goes Beta! first appeared on Re-Cycled Air .