Lewis Gaul

Mostly here for the software news... Interested in Python, Zig, and lots more.

[Lewis Gaul @lewis_gaul]

I've been trying to get a deeper understanding of #linux #cgroups and their use with #containers over the last few months. I've written up a 'Cgroups Introduction' blog post and a separate post listing questions I'm still seeking answers to!

Intro post: https://t.co/5atVAPLYX5

[Lewis Gaul @lewis_gaul]

I wrote about Astral's python tooling:
https://t.co/iRFDO4Bp1W

99% extremely positive!

@charliermarsh

[Lewis Gaul @lewis_gaul]

@charliermarsh @HanchungLee @sloppenheimer Could create a pip shim in the venv that prints an error message to the user explaining the situation?

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

[Sky Sports Tennis @SkySportsTennis]

"I just want to go to bed" 🤣

Dan Evans' reaction to defeating Karen Khachanov in the longest US Open match in history at 5 hours and 35 minutes 🤯

[Henning Wehn @henningwehn]

How does Tom Cruise manage to be held in highest public esteem when he is a leading player in Scientology?!?! I don’t get it at all. Just remarkable.

[Peter Walker @peterwalker99]

I know Just Stop Oil aren't everyone's cup of tea these days, but should we be worried that people are being jailed for five and four years because of an entirely non-violent protest? I think we probably should.

https://t.co/ZrIJVcStNU

[Loris Cro ⚡ @croloris]

Announcing the 2024 Zig Software Foundation financial report and fundraiser!

We're also going to have a Zig SHOWTIME episode where Andrew will present the 2024 roadmap for Zig!

https://t.co/7pjUdGNF6a

[Lewis Gaul @lewis_gaul]

The only right answer is to pick at random, who's with me?

[Hynek Schlawack @hynek]

I've aired some of my frustrations around the Python nogil discussion over at the elephant site: https://t.co/mVr5vZ45Ln

Twitter will probably bury this tweet but c'est la vie – I'm not re-fragmenting that thread.

[José Morgado @josemorgado]

35yo Andy Murray, a former world #1 with a metal hip, who played 5h two days ago, comes back to beat Thanasi Kokkinakis 4-6, 6-7(4), 7-6(5), 6-3, 7-5 in the 2nd longest ever #AusOpen match: 5h45, finished after 4am in the morning.

Into the 3rd round

Epic. Legendary. All of that

[Rui Ueyama @rui314]

I was optimistic when I started the mold project that I'd be able to earn a comfortable income in some way if it becomes popular. But I may have to admit that that's a bit too optimistic. I'm still losing my money after two years.

[Lewis Gaul @lewis_gaul]

😰😣

[Daniel Vassallo @dvassallo]

When I worked at Amazon we used to make some software slow on purpose.

Then when a problem caused real slowness, we’d remove the fake delays and things would feel normal.

The fake delays made users happier, even though they all wanted faster software.

Makes you think.

[whatwillycook @whatwillycook]

Regardless of your opinion on the queen, this whole thing has shown the true extent of how backwards we are as a country. Thousands of homeless people needing shelter but Sally from Norwich gets to spend the night on a train cos she had to go and cry next to a box for a bit.

[Loris Cro ⚡ @croloris]

Next Saturday: new Zig London social event!

https://t.co/aYKXNySOz0

[Bun @bunjavascript]

Introducing Oven: the company behind Bun.

Oven has raised $7m led by @buckymoore at Kleiner Perkins with participation from @rauchg @ycombinator and more

https://t.co/HG2TUCQWbL

[Lewis Gaul @lewis_gaul]

@willmcgugan Absolutely, give it's open source I'd do it for free if I wanted the job, but the £200 is a good touch in terms of making it clear it's not intending to take advantage of applicants.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Another AWS billing horror story. This engineer *did* follow best practices in setting up billing alerts: still got no alerts due to delays in these alerts firing.

AWS has no ways to add hard spending limits - which Azure has - and these stories keep happening again and again.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Can we acknowledge how ridiculous it is that startups and even individuals can bankrupt themselves...

... with an AWS bill?

I cannot fathom why Amazon does not do anything meaningful to allow setting e.g. limits on accounts. Why do we need to hear stories like this on repeat?

[Rui Ueyama @rui314]

If you are planning to use the mold linker in a big company, please consider supporting it by sining a technical support contract with us! We can help the initial transition and fix bugs for you. https://t.co/HwjIK7Ke8u