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I reduced Python web app memory by 3.2 GB using async workers, import isolation, the Raw+DC database pattern, and disk caching. Detailed before and after numbers for each technique.

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Introducing chameleon-robyn, a Python package that adds Chameleon template support to the Rust-backed Robyn web framework as an alternative to Jinja.

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Tallyman is a CLI tool that categorizes and analyzes codebases by language and file type, revealing the shape of your project.

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A command-line tool that summarizes the size of a codebase by language, showing lines of code with and without comments and blank lines. - mikeckennedy/tallyman

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Let's focus on something so minuscule as the basic ls command.

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A very simple CLI util to help you avoid going over your limits in tools like Cursor, etc. - mikeckennedy/aiusage