Python has a reputation for being one of the most convenient, richly outfitted, and downright useful programming languages. Execution speed? Not so much.Enter Cython. The Cython language is a superset of Python that compiles to C. This yields performance boosts that can range from a few…
A Bloomberg terminal for Mastodon
As I mentioned last time, the Steampipe dashboard for Mastodon has evolved in unexpected ways. I imagined that the components — a plugin that maps Mastodon APIs to Postgres foreign tables, and a suite of views that query the APIs — would combine to enable a…