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Python quiz: EuroPython 2026 edition(opens in new tab)
Replay the EuroPython 2026 Python quiz. These are the questions asked during the EuroPython 2026 quiz. They will test your knowledge of the Python language, the community, and of EuroPython 2026. Since we were celebrating 25 years of EuroPython at ...
#489: Or JSON?(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: django-orjson Best Django Redis configuration for speed and size Linus Torvalds puts the foot down against Anti-AI Kernel Maintainers Django Steering Council backs the Triptych Project Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored ...
Are 128-bit symmetric keys really secure against quantum computers?(opens in new tab)
Quantum computers are a threat to traditional cryptography, more specifically to asymmetric cryptography (signatures and key exchanges) with Shor's algorithm enabling fast factoring of big numbers.
Some more things about Django I've been enjoying(opens in new tab)
Poetic CSS Course, Early Bird Launch(opens in new tab)
The Star 7: the Early Java Prototype that was a Precursor to the Smartphone(opens in new tab)
Writing about electrification(opens in new tab)
For years I've been thinking about electrification, now I'm going to write about it.
Slicing GPUs in Kubernetes with NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPU (MIG)(opens in new tab)
GPU sharing in Kubernetes explained: time-slicing vs MPS vs MIG, every nvidia-smi command to enable and disable MIG on one GPU or eight, GPU Operator automation, pitfalls, and DCGM monitoring.
Optimize the common cases(opens in new tab)
One thing I've learned working on https://github.com/rust-stdx/stdx (Rust's extended standard library), is that libraries often have common cases that are worth optimizing for.
AI Is Just Thinking and Doing(opens in new tab)
Charcoal sketch of business figures feeding a blank scroll into a massive thinking machine/images/ai-is-thinking-and-doing.webp/images/ai-is-thinking-and-doing.webp One useful way to cut through noise and hype in AI conversations is to replace the word "AI" with the words "Thinking" and "Doing". ...
Impro is a handbook for running a cult(opens in new tab)
Infinity(opens in new tab)
The SLAP stack is the last server stack you'll ever need(opens in new tab)
Kimi K3 Might Have Just Started a Crash of the US Economy(opens in new tab)
Kimi K3 and the US economy/images/kimi-k3-us-economy-header.webp/images/kimi-k3-us-economy-header.webp Not enough people realize that China's push for open source AIhttps://www.google.com/search?q=popular+Chinese+AI+models is an explicit CCP strategy to crash the US stock market and economy. Peop...
In Memoriam, Encountering World War I, and Thinkable Horrors(opens in new tab)
A delayed education on the trenches and scales of suffering
Overtraining as the path to human-like AI(opens in new tab)
The Java Story | The Official Documentary(opens in new tab)
Self-Host Weekly (17 July 2026) (opens in new tab)
Pop it, fork it, polka dot it 🎶
New Member Perk: Insider Offers (opens in new tab)
The latest goodies for paid selfh.st subscribers
Go releases are exciting (especially 1.27)(opens in new tab)
Go 1.27rc2 was released 10 days ago and Go 1.27 is due for August. Let's be honest, this release is freaking awesome! Generic methods? Yeah! UUID in the standard library?
Day 5: Local LLM Inference Engines, Wrappers, and What to Pick(opens in new tab)
A beginner-friendly guide to local LLM inference, with the same Qwen model tested through Ollama, llama.cpp, Docker Model Runner, vLLM, SGLang, and TensorRT-LLM on NVIDIA DGX Spark.
Launching: rez0’s rascals(opens in new tab)
I built a K-5 learning app for homeschool, co-op, and hybrid-school families.
Learning a few things about running SQLite(opens in new tab)
Regressive JPEGs:(opens in new tab)
One of the cool features of JPEG files is that there's the option to save low frequency components first. This means that a partially downloaded image will be displayed at low resolution instead of being cut off. In the file, ...
Workshop Basel day three(opens in new tab)
See also: day one, day two. There is only one thing that is better than two days of HTTP workshop, and that is of course three days of HTTP workshop. The final day of this edition of the series started ...
Three sacred cows that must die so Europe can live(opens in new tab)
Choose your own dark mode(opens in new tab)
When I redesigned my website earlier this year I removed dark mode. I never liked the colours, and the light switch toggle was so 2010’s. Personally I prefer reading with a dark theme for long-form content. Dark is not my ...
The Act and the Outcome of Creation(opens in new tab)
Creation is the ultimate form of pursuing ourselves, giving to the world when shared, and using the power of our subconscious. It gives us joy, and to every artist, it is the ultimate (flow) state of happiness. The Act of ...
From microservice to subprocess(opens in new tab)
You were going to pack your bag and go back home when your manager stops you and tell you about this new feature. To surf the meme wave, you will
Bonsai 27B on RTX PRO 6000 vs DGX Spark: what actually works(opens in new tab)
Real Bonsai 27B benchmarks on an RTX PRO 6000 and a DGX Spark, including the supported llama.cpp setup, ternary vs 1-bit results, and speculative decoding.
Workshop Basel day two(opens in new tab)
If you missed it. I already described day one. Caffeinated and ready, we all gathered in the same spacious room as yesterday, but seated in new places as “suggested” by our captain. Some of us even remembered to move over ...
How a Junior Developer Created One of Java's Most Widely Used Server Technologies(opens in new tab)
Understanding the Rust hype for the busy developer(opens in new tab)
First, let's be clear, this post is not intended to fuel any programming language holy war. I wrote this post because I've sometime been late to understand the benefits of
Web-Perf Wednesday 001 – SPAs Are Finally Becoming Measurable(opens in new tab)
Chrome 151 brings native soft-navigation measurement closer, alongside better redirect timing, revealing CrUX data, and more trustworthy browser tooling.
How Much I Spend on AI Agents as a Software Engineer (And Is It Worth It?)(opens in new tab)
I've been leaning into agentic engineering for the past six months, and I've finally hit my stride at work after coming back from parental leave. AI token spend has been a hot topic and we have intern...
reCAP 2026 talk resources(opens in new tab)
usbtree(opens in new tab)
A live USB device tree TUI with Linux activity metrics.
Dell is on a roll with the XPS(opens in new tab)
Workshop Basel day one(opens in new tab)
On this hot summer’s day in Basel, Switzerland, the seventh HTTP workshop started. These events tend to work roughly the same way and the people in the room are also to large extent familiar and known since previous editions. Forty ...
The Three Components of Becoming AI Antifragile(opens in new tab)
The three components of becoming AI antifragile/images/becoming-ai-antifragile-header.webp/images/becoming-ai-antifragile-header.webp I have a new idea that everything you should try to do to get ready for AI basically breaks down into three pieces. Deeply understanding how things work The firs...
ISO 9001 and AS9100: What They Actually Buy You(opens in new tab)
If you've spent any time around a machine shop or a manufacturing floor, you've probably heard someone grumble that a quality certification is just a binder full of paperwork nobody reads until an auditor shows up. That reputation isn't entirely ...
I made a Plex server(opens in new tab)
There’s a lot to like about Plex from a philosophical standpoint — it’s local-first software centered around sharing your favorite art with your friends. Plex hosts movies, TV, and music — media you purchase because you love it, and share ...
Building a Custom Metrics Exporter for Kubernetes(opens in new tab)
Kubernetes ships with built-in awareness of CPU and memory, but most real-world scaling decisions depend on signals that live entirely outside that narrow window: how many messages are waiting in a queue, how long the last batch job took, how ...
France Deleted Windows, Now They Use THIS Unpopular OS(opens in new tab)
#488: tau - it's 2pi and it writes code(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: The trusted-publishing debate: how to do it right vs. why you shouldn't trust it JupyterLab 4.6 and Notebook 7.6 are out! Tau – new small, readable terminal coding agent Django Tasks and Django 6.1 Extras ...
The discourse about software craftsmanship conveniently ignores distribution(opens in new tab)
I've always considered myself a software craftsman. I love clean APIs, efficient code and great user experience. If our entire world is about to be rewritten in Rust governed by
I have no idea who celebrities are anymore (opens in new tab)
Julia Roberts? She was in that one movie with that guy, and the other one with the other guy, and like 100 more. Whatever. But she’s old news. Like all...
Logo: Squawkbox(opens in new tab)
What does "playing politics" mean for software engineers?(opens in new tab)