#465 Stack Overflow is Cooked
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Topics covered in this episode:
- port-killer
- How we made Python's packaging library 3x faster
- CodSpeed
- Extras
- Joke
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Michael #1: port-killer
- A powerful cross-platform port management tool for developers.
- Monitor ports, manage Kubernetes port forwards, integrate Cloudflare Tunnels, and kill processes with one click.
- Features:
- 🔍 Auto-discovers all listening TCP ports
- ⚡ One-click process termination (graceful + force kill)
- 🔄 Auto-refresh with configurable interval
- 🔎 Search and filter by port number or process name
- ⭐ Favorites for quick access to important ports
- 👁️ Watched ports with notifications
- 📂 Smart categorization (Web Server, Database, Development, System)
Brian #2: How we made Python's packaging library 3x faster
- Henry Schreiner
- Some very cool graphs demonstrating some benchmark data.
- And then details about how various speedups
- each being 2-37% faster
- the total adding up to about 3x speedup, or shaving 2/3 of the time.
- These also include nice write-ups about why the speedups were chosen.
- If you are trying to speed up part of your system, this would be good article to check out.
Michael #3: AI’s Impact on dev companies
- On TailwindCSS: via Simon
- Tailwind is growing faster than ever and is bigger than it has ever been
- Its revenue is down close to 80%.
- 75% of the people on our engineering team lost their jobs here yesterday because of the brutal impact AI has had on our business.
- “We had 6 months left”
- Listen to the founder: “A Morning Walk”
- Super insightful video: Tailwind is in DEEP trouble
- On Stack Overflow: See video.
- SO was founded around 2009, first month had 3,749 questions
- December, SO had 3,862 questions asked
- Most of its live it had 200,000 questions per month
- That is a 53x drop!
Brian #4: CodSpeed
- “CodSpeed integrates into dev and CI workflows to measure performance, detect regressions, and enable actionable optimizations.”
- Noticed it while looking through the GitHub workflows for FastAPI
- Free for small teams and open-source projects
- Easy to integrate with Python by marking tests with
@pytest.mark.benchmark - They’ve releases a GitHub action to incorporate benchmarking in CI workflows
Extras
Brian:
- Part 2 of Lean TDD released this morning, “Lean TDD Practices”, which has 9 mini chapters.
Michael:
- Our Docker build just broke because of the supply chain techniques from last week (that’s a good thing!). Not a real issue, but really did catch an open CVE.
- Long passwords are bad now? ;)
Joke: Check out my app!
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