performance ⁽⁵⁾

A snow storm in the Sierras knocked out power, cell towers, internet connectivity, and emergency communication systems. There is a DSL line where we were staying to which wifi is connected--only available in the lobby.

In reference to Performance of Array, Set, and Hash in Ruby, I was curious to see how the three different data structures perform when run in Crystal. The code is slightly modified to handle the…

In reviewing some Ruby code, the data were all in Sets, rather than Arrays. I asked the original author why they used Sets instead of Arrays. The answer was "because sets are faster than arrays."…

In further thoughts about high performance websites, I thought about expanding on my own experiences with my side-hobby on my domain, lewman.com. I'm not talking about this blog, yet. The blog is hosted on Wordpress.com…

History On February 5th, 1998,  the lewman.com domain name was live on the Internet. For some reason, I've saved the original email from the registrar and hosting company. In fact, I'm pretty sure the domain…