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When we write a JOIN statement in SQL, it usually goes like this SELECT {columns} FROM parent LEFT JOIN child ON child.parent_id = parent.id Does it ever make sense for […]

Just recording my amazement here. Suppose you have a GraphQL server. How do you ask it what’s the query schema? You would expect something like calling https://myserver/graphql/schema? Nah, that would […]

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!!! UPDATE I’ve got my […]

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 […]