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Articles tagged #python

  1. The Weekend Is Not a Constant

    Why 'is this a working day?' breaks so much software: weekends that differ by country and change over time, holidays that follow the moon, time zones that disagree about today, and the habits that kept my own date logic honest while building HolidayOps.

    5 minThe Engineering Logs

  2. Inside the Database Stack

    A senior-engineer walkthrough of the Django ORM and PostgreSQL: N+1 fixes, indexes, EXPLAIN plans, transactions, and when raw SQL is truly worth it.

    8 minThe Engineering Logs

  3. RAG Retrieval Strategies on a 50k-Document Dataset: BM25 vs Dense vs Hybrid

    How BM25, dense embeddings and hybrid search (RRF) behave on a 50k-document RAG corpus: working code, honest trade-offs, and when each one actually wins.

    11 minThe Engineering Logs

  4. React is Overkill: Why Python + HTMX is Dominating in 2026

    Why developers are shifting to Python + HTMX in 2026 for simpler, faster web apps and moving away from heavy frontend complexity.

    9 minBattle of BackFrontFirst on DEV