Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
Jul 24, 2009

Singletons and their Problems in Python

An exploration of singletons in Python, where they appear and why they can become a problem.

Jul 14, 2009

free VS free

Why the BSD licenses work for me.

Apr 8, 2009

C++ Pitfalls

A concise list of some common C++ pitfalls.

Mar 21, 2009

Going back to Windows

Why I am running Windows on my desktop computer now instead of ubuntu.

Mar 2, 2009

“STD” stands for Sleazy, Tattered and Dead

My experiences with the Python standard library and why I'm not the biggest fan of it or at least the way it works currenctly.

Mar 1, 2009

The 1000% Speedup, or, the stdlib sucks

How a small change on an import resulted in an 1000% speedup.

Feb 12, 2009

Are you sure you want to use GPL?

My point of view on one of the most controversial topics in the open source world: licensing

Jan 8, 2009

The Sad State of MySQL Python

Old blog post about the broken state of the MySQL python module.

Jan 6, 2009

Opinionated Frameworks

Status update on Jinja and django templates and why it's not a big deal that django has a limiting templating engine.

Sep 20, 2008

Apologies to Github

Apology for a mistake I made in an earlier blog post.