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Marius Gedminas
Personal blog · mg.pov.lt/blogprogrammingsystems
Marius Gedminas writes Random notes from mg, a personal blog at mg.pov.lt about programming and systems. Since 2008, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Objgraph - Drawing Python object reference graphs”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments link the blog's pythonrc page, a PYTHONSTARTUP file that adds a coloured prompt, tab-completion and persistent history to the Python shell. No comment judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Objgraph - Drawing Python object reference graphs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-04-08
What Hacker News says?
PYTHONSTARTUP also lets you enable things like * coloured prompt * tab-completion * persistent history Here's mine: http://mg.pov.lt/pythonrc
Comment linking /pythonrc
on “Python Ecosystem - An Introduction”Submitted Hunting memory leaks in Python as a story · 13 points
HN discussionI just watched your talk, and found it very interesting, thanks for sharing it! I hope you can do the data flow analysis. That would be so cool and SO useful. Python certainly has the ability to collect the data. A couple existing tools make use of this. For example, MonkeyType and Birdseye observe the values that are passed around by tracing execution during test runs (or even during a production run, but the perfo…
Comment linking /objgraph/
on “Show HN: Sourcetrail – Visual Source Explorer Now Supports Python”Submitted Marius Gedminas: Ansible is great as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Objgraph - Drawing Python object reference graphs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python Object Graphs – objgraph as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hunting memory leaks in Python as a story · 2 points
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