Python

I’m easily addicted. Addictions change, but my current ones are Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer and Sudoku. Considering the latter, I have a soft spot for the mind-numbness and peace it gives me. It’s just you, numbers, and pretty evident strategies to win. At some point, I decided that I needed to quit this ugly habit that breaks the lives of millions of people and causes family splits. I had a spare weekend and not a lot of things to do, so I decided the best thing was to make a sudoku solver. I would get a screenshot or a photo of a sudoku puzzle, parse it, solve it, render a solution, get a dopamine boost in the world of excruciating nothingness, and go on with my life. ...

Prelude Currently, I’m working on the product, built around a large Django monolithic application and a bunch of microservices around it. The codebase is quite huge and has a lot of (tens of thousands) tests, that are normally run in a parallel mode in the CI environment. The CPython and Django versions are a little bit stale (3.8 and 3.2 respectively). For local development purposes, it’s well enough to run a subset of tests in a non-parallel mode or to wait for the whole suite to pass during the CI run, but for one specific use case I had to run a parallel test suite locally. It was a surprise for me to see the Segmentation Fault as the test failure reason for a bunch of tests. ...