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Understanding Python’s GIL and Memory Management The Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) in Python has long been a subject of discussion in the world of concurrent programming. To understand why the GIL exists and how we can work around it, we first need to delve into Python’s memory management system, particularly its reference counting mechanism.

Dive into the complex world of organized crime with insights from complexity science and witness criminal behavior through our interactive simulation.

Modern computing usually concerns multiple compute units. These compute units can be in the form of implementing shaders on a graphics card, or programming for multiple cores on the central processing unit (CPU).

I wrote a simulator from scratch in Nim and visualize on the web with D3!

Table of Contents The setup Sensor data probing Prometheus Grafana The build During the COVID pandemic all of us had to work from home. The rapid change from work being at the office now being completely at home came with many challenges such as work-life balance, good ergonomics and ensuring enough exercise to keep your body (and mind) healthy.

Fixing some annoyances on my website

A friend and I walked over 100 KM on arguably one of the prettiest walked so far. We walked the trail in reverse starting in La Roche-en-Ardenne (Belgium) moving towards Kautenbach Luxembourg in about 6 days.

Table of Contents Introduction The problem Step 1: Reaching the target area. Step 2: Determining the max height Finding the trajectory with the max height. Reflections and conclusions Introduction Over the years I have grown quite fond of solving riddles.

Table of Contents What are header files? Cython pure mode Benchmarks Summary In coding there is a trade-off between writing abstract code, and high performant code. This trade-off is often embodied in different languages.

Bootstrapping myself into the web