What you can do in a decade(opens in new tab)
I turned 40 today. For my 35th I did principles, but for my 40th, I wanted to offer perhaps more useful reflections.
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Compare AI Coding Agents and Terminals on Terminal Trove(opens in new tab)
Added AI coding agents, more terminals, terminal bench benchmarks and new comparison tables on Terminal Trove.
hzfind(opens in new tab)
A CLI/TUI to find the best Hetzner Server Auction deals.
10,000-watt GPU meet 40-watt lump of meat(opens in new tab)
The use of AI is leading to burnout among its greatest advocates as they hit the limit of their meta-cognitive abilities: “I end each day exhausted—not from the work itself, but from the managing of the work. Six worktrees open, ...
Celebrating computers at Omacon(opens in new tab)
#477: Lazy, Frozen, and 31% Lighter(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Django Modern Rest Already playing with Python 3.15 Cutting Python Web App Memory Over 31% tryke - A Rust-based Ptyhon test runner with a Jest-style API Extras Joke See the full show notes for this ...
GOOSE IT UP(opens in new tab)
I’m in school1 again. I’m going back to school because my work, my entire career, for my entire adult life, has been writing things for the Internet. That’s going away,...
Build yourself flowers(opens in new tab)
This is an edited transcript of the keynote I gave at the Applied Machine Learning Conference in Charlottesville, VA in April 2026. I first wrote a draft of this talk by hand. This part took 2 months. I then recorded ...
Self-Host Weekly (17 April 2026) (opens in new tab)
Indie computing, Linux 7.0, and a new Jellyfin client for...the Wii?
OWASP Top 10 (2025 List) for Python Devs(opens in new tab)
The OWASP Top 10 just got a fresh update, and there are some big changes: supply chain attacks, exceptional condition handling, and more. Tanya Janca is back on Talk Python to walk us through every single one of them. And ...
State of the Browser (2026) It’s 10PM: Do You Know Where Your JavaScript Is?(opens in new tab)
I don't want a screenshot of your Claude conversation(opens in new tab)
The number of screenshots of Claude conversations is going up in my life and it’s beginning to have an impact on my general mood. Most of the time it’s well-intended; coworkers working through a problem with a chatbot before bothering ...
The malleable computer(opens in new tab)
A Roadmap for Building an Extended Standard Library for Rust(opens in new tab)
Supply Chain attacks are all the rage these days, with many high-profile attacks that were carried against the Python ecosystem (with litellm), JavaScript (with axios) and WordPress in the last
Why Rust Wins in the Age of AI(opens in new tab)
For the past several months I've been searching for the Missing Programming Language - a language with a good balance of types, performance, ecosystem, and agentic AI performance. I've landed on a spe...
netwatch(opens in new tab)
Real time network diagnostics in your terminal.
Design and Engineering, As One(opens in new tab)
In the winter of 1898, a mechanical engineer named Frederick Winslow Taylor arrived at the Bethlehem Steel Company in Pennsylvania with a stopwatch and a conviction. Taylor had been thinking for years about why industrial work was so inefficient, and ...
Enter Grimdaniel(opens in new tab)
Why, where, and how I created a new app to be my new home of fiction writing.
When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break(opens in new tab)
When you make speed and “moving fast” the biggest priority on a project or in an organization, the first thing to breakdown is talking to each other. Talking takes time. Consensus is expensive and slow. In a pressurized environment there’s ...
✉️ Content Hiatus(opens in new tab)
I've decided to go on a content hiatus. This will be my last dispatch for a while. I don't know how long I'll be gone. Why? Because I've been posting to an anonymous audience on the Internet almost every day ...
Connecting the Logitech MX Creative Console to Elgato Lights(opens in new tab)
I used the GitHub Copilot CLI to generate some scripts for me to control Elgato Lights with the Logitech MX Creative Console!
9 Days in Japan - Tokyo, Hakone, and Kyoto(opens in new tab)
We recently went on a 9 day trip to Japan. It was awesome. Japan has been at the top of my bucket list since ~2020 but with Covid, getting married, and having a kid we just never found the right ...
One Developer, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment(opens in new tab)
Why we need collaborative AI engineering and a tour of Ace: the multiplayer coding workspace
Mechanical sympathy(opens in new tab)
Weaver, seen from the Front, Vincent van Gogh, 1884 Something that’s been floating around in my head lately is the idea that I don’t know any truly good engineers who are also not good at at product design. Product design ...
Deep Dish Swift 2026 recap(opens in new tab)
I spoke at Deep Dish Swift in Chicago!
Personal highlights of PyCon Lithuania 2026(opens in new tab)
In this article I share my personal highlights of PyCon Lithuania 2026. Shout out to the organisers and volunteers This was my second time at PyCon Lithuania and, for the second time in a row, I leave with the impression ...
Wheel Next + Packaging PEPs(opens in new tab)
When you pip install a package with compiled code, the wheel you get is built for CPU features from 2009. Want newer optimizations like AVX2? Your installer has no way to ask for them. GPU support? You're on your own ...
Self-Host Weekly (10 April 2026) (opens in new tab)
The document wars, e-mail hosting discourse, and the return of an old friend
font-family Doesn’t Fall Back the Way You Think(opens in new tab)
A quick but important reminder that font-family declarations don’t inherit fallback stacks the way many developers assume.
Speaking at TechCamp Korea 2026(opens in new tab)
I spoke in Seoul, South Korea to an incredibly bright group of participants!
AIE Europe(opens in new tab)
A talk, a workshop, and a podcast at AIE Europe. Here's what I did.
Who wants to be a millionaire: iterables edition(opens in new tab)
Play this short quiz to test your Python knowledge! At PyCon Lithuania 2026 I did a lightning talk where I presented a “Who wants to be a millionaire?” Python quiz, themed around iterables. There's a whole performance during the lightning ...
A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it(opens in new tab)
The Scroll Manifesto(opens in new tab)
Scroll inside the stage with the mouse wheel or with your finger. It is only a machine, but it already understands the gesture. Have fun! Posted by like comments share comments close share close Thank you for sharing. Your unpaid ...
Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate the inevitable(opens in new tab)
An essential part of being able to say "I told you so" is in fact having told you so. Well, here we are. For those living under a rock (lucky
Getting Started with Datastar - Build a Rust + Axum Todo App(opens in new tab)
For the past several years I've been building server-side rendered apps using hypermedia libraries like HTMX and Datastar to sprinkle in interactivity where it's useful. I like this approach because i...
gloomberb(opens in new tab)
An extensive financial terminal, in your terminal.
A mathematical problem(opens in new tab)
While reading some classic poetry, I accidentally found Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s A Mathematical Problem: On a given finite line Which must no way incline; To describe an equi– –lateral Tri– –A, N, G, L, E. I have to admit, the ...
S3 Is Not a Filesystem (But Now There’s One In Front of It)(opens in new tab)
I’ve been saying “S3 is not a filesystem” for over a decade. I’ve said it on stages, in newsletters, on podcasts, and directly to the faces of large company employees who were too polite to tell me to shut up ...
Inverted themes with light-dark()(opens in new tab)
We rolled out adaptive light-dark() support on our design system themes and it’s been a delightful upgrade. Creating light and dark variable sets isn’t difficult, but delivery has trade-offs. Most apps that do this probably ship both sets of token ...
\"SSH Into Your DGX Spark From Anywhere in the World Using Tailscale(opens in new tab)
Learn how to set up Tailscale on your NVIDIA DGX Spark for secure SSH access from anywhere in the world.
Big W is now ISO 9001 Lead Implementer Certified(opens in new tab)
Check out Big W's new ISO 9001 Lead Implementer certification!
Using a ~/.pdbrc file to customize the Python Debugger(opens in new tab)
Panther Lake is the real deal(opens in new tab)
#476: Common themes(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Migrating from mypy to ty: Lessons from FastAPI Oxyde ORM Typeshedded CPython docs Raw+DC Database Pattern: A Retrospective Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/476
TIL: Improving µCSS readability on mobile(opens in new tab)
How to get an otherwise responsive framework to look good on mobile devices.
On Programming Joy and Octocat(opens in new tab)
While GitHub has been busy losing its last nine of availablility, I’ve been thinking about how the internet used to be. Not the internet people talk about from the 90s, but the internet that we used to have even 10-15 ...
NASA Elements of Engineering Excellence(opens in new tab)
I stumbled across this report from NASA, “Elements of Engineering Excellence”, published in 2012, The inspiration for this paper originated in discussions with the director of MSFC Engineering in 2006 who asked that we investigate the question: “How do you ...
Ozempic dreams(opens in new tab)
It’s a secret to everyone! This post is for RSS subscribers only. Read more about RSS Club. I’ve heard the term “Ozempic face” for awhile. People have opinions about that one, but I tend to feel like we should be ...