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New comment by alihawili in "Python: The Optimization Ladder"

alihawili — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:52:29 +0000

when dealing with JSON in cpython, I always use msgspec, performance gains is huge

New comment by alihawili in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"

alihawili — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:00:13 +0000

During Windows millennium days, I accessed internet mainly from internet cafe's, most of them had windows restrictions enabled, with downloads disabled, my computer hidden and such. Open notepad, and from notepad I access USB drive then run opera browser installed on it. mail, web, downloads..

New comment by alihawili in "I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file"

alihawili — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 18:40:20 +0000

I had a similar journey, settled on a todo app that actually uses text files too https://www.taskpaper.com Save the text file to a cloud sync provider and you can check it on every device