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I've been running a new meditation practice for the past several months and it's working great so wanted to share. Morning Pages My meditation practice is morning pages adapted from The Artist's Way....
“So instead of asking "why not React?" we asked: Which of our actual problems would React solve? We went through the list. There were none.”
A TUI note management app inspired by Obsidian.
There’s a longstanding criticism of Buddhism in the West as McMindfulness™, a watered-down and commodified version of the real thing. And it’s certainly disheartening to see how few Buddhist groups charge nothing for the teachings and look like little more ...
Topics covered in this episode: pi + superpowers Terminal: Warp.dev + OhMyZSH {Blink,kitty} + mosh + tmux Claude code MacWhisper or Handy Tailscale Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/484
TL;DR - A game where you get $1 trillion of Elon Musk's money and spend it. Try it now: Spend Elon Musk's Money What is it You get $1 trillion of Elon Musk's money. Spend it on a catalog of ...
I’ve been working with local models since they came out, and finally, they’re surprisingly good now. I have a 2022 M2 Mac with 64 GB RAM and 1TB storage and I’ve used Mistral 7B Gemma 3 OpenAI OSS-20B Qwen 3 ...
Just ran a quick benchmark comparing different hashing functions on a Zen 5 EPYC processor (in pure Rust, from https://github.com/rust-stdx/stdx), and Ho My G..., BLAKE3 on Zen 5 is crazy
In our ongoing SIG Spotlight series, we shine a light on the groups that keep the Kubernetes project moving forward. This time, we catch up with SIG Storage, the group responsible for persistent data, volume management, and the interfaces that ...
This article should be read with the opening scene of Westworld in mind. What if Plato and Leibniz were right? Maybe some mystics were right as well. As above, so below. Everything would fit nicely if the oscillatory behaviour of ...
I spoke at KeyCon, a mechanical keyboard convention!
I’ve been running a new remote development setup for the last month or so, and the goal is simple: move between all of my devices without losing my place. The way I think about it, I have three default states: ...
How imprecise UI animations erode trust in product
An ode to what was, and what could have been
If you've ever been to PyCon, you know one of the best parts of the expo hall is Startup Row, a stretch of booths where early-stage companies built on Python show off what they're creating. But only attendees get to ...
The culture in the Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE), particularly with regards to quality, was without a doubt the best I've experienced. One thing that really made it great was the common understanding that perfection is impossible. While that may sound ...
It's now common knowledge that LLMs / AI agents are vulnerable to all kind of injections, so attackers are being more and more creative to find new entrypoints. One commonly
Come find Justin in-person and get FAFOFM stickers!Devopsdays - Portland, OR - September 8-10. Get 20% off tickets with FAFOFMEdgecase - Gooiland Hilversum, NL - September 24Taloscon - Amsterdam, NL - October 15-16KCD UK - Edinburgh - October 19Kubecon NA ...
From embedded firmware (where it's badly needed) to big servers passing by cross-platform applications used by billions of people, the foundations of the computing stack are being rewritten in Rust.
A practical, beginner-friendly guide to BF16, FP8, NVFP4, MXFP4, INT4, and GGUF Q4_K_M on NVIDIA DGX Spark. Bytes per parameter, quality vs size, and which format to pick when.
I spoke (a lot) at Microsoft Build in San Francisco!
TL;DR - A dashboard visualizing your GoodReads data export. Try it now: GoodReads Dashboard. What is it A small site that visualizes your GoodReads data exports. Total pages and books read Top author...
A TUI for following football (soccer) matches in real-time.
Topics covered in this episode: Vulnerability and malware checks in uv HTTP GET requests with the Python standard library Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package alembic-git-revisions Extras Joke See the full show notes for ...
There are about a thousand and one debates about the ecology of AI, the ethics of AI, the governance of AI. As the technology advances, the debate with the slipperiest footing is on the actual efficacy of AI: does this ...
A week in which some things happen and some things do not happen, much like other weeks. Current situation: The pain of having children who become driving teenagers is the...
This week I'm talking with Max Stoiber, currently working on ChatGPT's plugin directory and app platform at OpenAI. We discuss the hundreds of open source projects nobody remembers alongside the big ones like react-boilerplate and styled-components, how Spectrum became part ...
42 million Plex users can't be wrong
While a few people complain that AI is "stealing Open Source", training on Open Source code and giving nothing in return, I'm currently living the complete opposite: we are in
A practical teardown of NVIDIA DGX Spark's GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, unified memory, sm_121, NVFP4 tensor cores, memory reporting, and decode limits.
Workload and node autoscaling in 2026
Tips and tricks from me to you.
Threads were designed to parallelize compute-intensive tasks. However, these days, a lot of applications (such as a network scanner) are I/O (Input / Output) intensive. Thus, threads have two significant
Compilers, especially method just-in-time compilers, operate on one function at a time. It is a natural code unit size, especially for a dynamic language JIT: at a given point in time, what more information can you gather about other parts ...
A practical Wandler deep dive with a local M1 Max WebGPU demo, real latency numbers, architecture diagrams, and getting-started commands.
I've always been a quiet person who prefers to write than to talk (though this may not be obvious based on the number of YouTube videos I've published). So it feels a little weird to say that I think ...
A tmux-like and agent-aware terminal multiplexer.
Let's paint a picture of two very different environments, whose root differences can be largely traced back to differences embedded deep in their quality culture. Let's begin with what sadly is more likely to be the default state. "Quality isn't ...
Sunday came, Sunday went, but the notes can be week notes any day they want to be. Current situation: Monday 25 May: Memorial Day, also hospital day. Having to work...
For many people, Kubernetes Dashboard was their first window into Kubernetes. It offered a simple visual way to see what was running in a cluster, inspect resources, and build confidence without relying on the command line. For years, it helped ...
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in May 2026.
The TBT Window is the FCP-to-TTI interval used to calculate Total Blocking Time. If FCP or TTI moves, TBT can change even when long tasks do not.
Topics covered in this episode: CVE-2026-48710: A Maintainer's Perspective daily-stars-explorer Markdown to pdf with pandoc and typst postman2pytest Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/482
Short post today. New ZJIT contributor dak2 submitted a PR to fix an overflow bug in fixnum division in ZJIT. We did the division fine, but lied about the type of the result in the case of dividing FIXNUM_MIN by ...
