TL;DR: Python statement from module import obj creates a copy of the object in the importing scope. In other words, from module import obj is roughly equivalent to obj = __import__(‘module’).obj. […]

Our RabbitMQ client written in Go failed with the following error message: rabbitmq | 2024-10-23 17:54:01.311544+00:00 [error] operation basic.ack caused a channel exception precondition_failed: unknown delivery tag {message_tag} Taken at […]

Creation of Python packages underwent a few significant changes in the last 3-4 years. Here’s my note to self to remember what was changed/deprecated when: “Eggs”  => “Wheel“ “Eggs” was […]

The Night of the Zombie Registrars

TL;DR Before transferring a new domain to a registrar, contact support, and make sure there are still live humans behind the robots. If there aren’t, RUN!!! My two domains have […]

Last night I was talking to something which could be a human or a robot, I could not tell. But that’s not necessarily a good thing: not only AI became […]

My analog doorbell has died, so I am on the market for a doorbell camera. I would like to avoid storing my videos in the cloud, so it rules out […]

What is dead code?

What is dead code? Looks like it depends on who you ask. Some people think it’s unreachable code than never executes. Other people think that it’s redundant code that does […]