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Store Every Datetime as Naive Asia:Shanghai
2025-12-31 | timezone, china, utc, utz
Why I (and many others) store every Datetime as naive Asia/Shanghai - Why UTZ might become the next global default
After more than a decade of fighting timezone bugs across di...
Read more ->DST Is a Bug, Not a Feature
2025-08-03 | DST, DaylightSaving
DST Is a Bug, Not a Feature: Countries That Ditched It (and Didn't Regret It)
Daylight Saving Time isn't "saving" anything. It's a 100-year-old hack that introduces twice-yearly bugs into ...
Read more ->Why Microservices Are a Luxury Tax on Startups
2025-07-02 | Microservices, Monolith, Startup, Scalability
Monoliths Win at Scale: Why Microservices Are a Luxury Tax on Startups
It's 2025 and the discourse is still stuck in 2015: "Microservices = scale. Monoliths = legacy." Meanwhile, real star...
Read more ->The Problems with Django REST Framework
2025-02-02 | django, rest, api, drf
“Django REST Framework: The Over-Engineered Greedy Corpse of Django Forms That Refuses to Die"
Let's start by burying REST itself real quick, because DRF is built on the rotting foundation...
Read more ->Why is Python unsuitable as a mobile application development language
2016-07-16 | python, mobiledevelopment, python3
Why is Python unsuitable as a mobile application development language?
tl;dr
PSF made migrating to Python 3 as priority to the community, which slowed...