Who Hacked Me On Ubuntu?I walked out of bed this morning with my bed cover still around me (it was cold), to my workspace. I had taken my camera for a hangout yesterday, and I needed to fix it up, together with all the many connections that make up my work equipment. It mad...1AJun 23, 2025 · 9 min readblog.lordsarcastic.dev
What is one embarrassing thing you have done as a Software Engineer?I was feeling fly this wonderful day and a random thought floated before me. It was a time I tried to minify C code to reduce the size and make it more performant. It is typical folly in hindsight and it struck me to ask the same of developers I know...PMay 24, 2024 · 3 min readblog.lordsarcastic.dev
KafkaProducer connection pool in Python: Part 2Introduction Note: Part 1 of this series is available here Note: The complete implementation is in my kafka-python-producer-pool repository. In part 1 of this series, we addressed the concept of a Kafka producer pool to provide safe, multi-threaded c...Jan 1, 2024 · 8 min readblog.lordsarcastic.dev
KafkaProducer connection pool in Python: Part 1Introduction Note: Part 2 of this series is available here Note: The complete implementation is in my kafka-python-producer-pool repository. Kafka is an event-streaming platform used for building event-driven systems. Kafka hinges on three things: To...2JJJan 1, 2024 · 12 min readblog.lordsarcastic.dev
Year in review (2023)I have two years worth of year in reviews in my drafts. I've learned from past experiences and due to that. I'll just scramble things here and leave it at that. 2023 This year was filled with downs, then ups, then downs then ups in that order. I had ...Dec 31, 2023 · 1 min readblog.lordsarcastic.dev