For the last month or so, the lifespan of my beloved Thinkpad X1 Carbon battery had been getting down the drains, from 5-6 hours to less than 3. Following @padenot's advice, I installed powertop and started investigating what was draining this good'ol battery of mine.

Looking at the powertop …

I recently interviewed for an SRE position. I spent a full week learning (or refreshing my memory) on the subjects and topics that could be covered in such an interview. I'll try and lay down the list of topics I covered and resources I used.

What is an SRE?

Having …

I've been programming with celery for the last three years, and Deni Bertović's article about Celery best practices has truly been invaluable to me. In time, I've also come up with my set of best practices, and I guess this blog is as good a place as any to …

One of the main selling points of Python are its multi-paradigm philosophy. You can code in imperative, object-oriented or aspect-oriented style, use meta-programming techniques, etc. It also has an immense amount of libraries available. Finally, it's both a simple language to pick up for beginners, and a powerful language for …

In this article, we are going to see how to scrape information from a website, in particular, from all pages with a common URL pattern. We will see how to do that with Scrapy, a very powerful, and yet simple, scraping and web-crawling framework.

For example, you might be interested …

Introduction

I recently joined the Strongsteam project for a 6 month internship. Our main goal is to provide some "artificial intelligence and data mining APIs to let you pull interesting information out of images, video and audio." We will be doing a presentation at Pycon 2012, the 9th of March …

If you always wanted to write texts in the way of Monty Python, I have what you need ! In this post, I am going to show you mathematical techniques to analyse a text, in order to randomly generate look-alike texts.

Introduction to basic concepts

First essential question: what is a …