October 2016
17 links saved this month.
techspot.zzzeek.org
Benchmarked argument that asyncio slows database-bound Python code down, because interpreter overhead — not database I/O — dominates typical CRUD work.
github.com
Python implementation of TextRank and related graph-based ranking algorithms, run as a spaCy pipeline component to pull key phrases and extractive summaries out of documents.
medium.com
Walkthrough of splitting a React bundle by route with Webpack and applying the PRPL pattern to cut first paint and time-to-interactive on mobile.
stateless.co
Specification of HAL, a lean hypermedia media type giving JSON and XML API resources a consistent way to carry links, link relations and embedded resources.
marmelab.com
Documentation for admin-on-rest, a React and Material UI framework for building admin interfaces on top of REST APIs, since superseded by react-admin.
stat.cmu.edu
Course site for Larry Wasserman's CMU statistical machine learning class, with the lecture schedule and notes on regression, classification, clustering, graphical models and causal inference.
github.com
Source and docs for GLBC, the controller that turns Kubernetes Ingress resources into Google Compute Engine L7 load balancers; the contrib repository is now archived.
marmelab.com
Technique for making a Makefile document itself, by tagging targets with double-hash comments and parsing them into a help target with grep and awk.
blog.kgriffs.com
Language-agnostic explanation of how asynchronous I/O differs from blocking I/O, built on a fast-food counter analogy, and which workloads actually gain from it.
sqlalchemy-utils.readthedocs.io
Documentation for SQLAlchemy-Utils, a library of extra column types (email, UUID, JSON), model mixins, ORM helpers and database test utilities for SQLAlchemy.
github.com
Eight rules for keeping CSS manageable in large projects, covering component-oriented organisation, naming conventions, style isolation and loose integration of third-party styles.
en.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia article on record linkage — matching records that refer to the same entity across separate data sources, and the deterministic and probabilistic methods used to do it.
georgestocker.com
Inventory of what wrecks a programmer's focus — open floor plans, interruptions, notifications, stress — paired with the countermeasures a developer can apply alone.
