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That’s My Rank(opens in new tab)
Have you ever wondered why new CSS features and other web technologies very often seem to just work across browsers these days? The reason is probably: Interop. The Interop Project is a collaborative effort between major browser makers — Apple, ...
Why I'm no longer using Stripe(opens in new tab)
Stripe has been one of my favorite third party dependencies for over 10 years. Despite this affection for it, however, I've recently decided to migrate over to another service, one that better suits my needs.
Staying Calm with Duffie Cooley(opens in new tab)
Sidero and Oxide Kubecon NA event registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oxidesidero-at-kubecon-north-america-2025-tickets-1538869282449Duffie has lived through a lot. From multiple startup exits to big company changes. He stays grounded by remembering where he came from and what's important—people. This episode is full of career and ...
robert hand, thoughtful about astrology(opens in new tab)
I’d provide readings in various aspects of medieval astrology. And I’d probably wind up with readings in various modern systems as well. For instance, although I’m not specifically a Jungian astrologer, I think that reading Jung is a very valuable ...
#452: pi py-day (or is it py pi-day?)(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Python 3.14 Free-threaded Python Library Compatibility Checker Claude Sonnet 4.5 Python 3.15 will get Explicit lazy imports Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/452
Initial Lessons Learned with Agentic Programming(opens in new tab)
My journey through four phases of learning to work effectively with AI agents—from failed attempts at prompt engineering to discovering a process that actually delivers production-ready code.
Making Space(opens in new tab)
Gregory Scott, founder of Kush Audio, shared an interesting insight about mixing music the other day: Sometimes, to bring something forward in the mix, instead of turning it up, it can be more effective to actually turn all the other ...
intelli-shell(opens in new tab)
Like IntelliSense, but for shells!
CSS :is() :where() the Magic Happens(opens in new tab)
For Blogtober, I dug up a draft about the two CSS pseudo-class functions :is() and :where() that I’d had lying around in my drafts folder for quite some time. Actually, when I originally started writing this post, :is() and :where() ...
Visual Regression Testing for External URLs With Playwright(opens in new tab)
We’ve all been there: You write a bit of CSS, check whether everything looks right. You deploy. Then someone sends you a screenshot: the mobile navigation is broken. And why is the size of those headings just a bit off? ...
The Balanced Engineer • Issue #40(opens in new tab)
read charles mills on tolkien and race(opens in new tab)
(the proper DOI link)
Data Sci Tips and Tricks from CodeCut.ai(opens in new tab)
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/522
Why Build a MUD in 2025?(opens in new tab)
Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs) are text-first, real-time multiplayer worlds that predate modern MMOs. In 2025, building a MUD might seem contrarian, but it’s exactly the kind of project that rewards strong engineering, clean contracts, and a relentless focus on player experience. ...
Jane Goodall’s Famous Last Words(opens in new tab)
Jane Goodall, the scientist, conservationist, and educator who died last Wednesday at 91, will always be remembered for her singular, field-defining work on wild chimpanzees. She lived with wild chimpanzees to study them, befriended them, and made a groundbreaking discovery: ...
🤖 On GitHub Copilot CLI and prompts as code(opens in new tab)
I checked out William Vincent’s The Secret Prompts in GitHub Copilot CLI tonight, and I wanted to share a few tips and what stood out to me. GitHub Copilot CLI uses Claude Sonnet 4.5 by default No luck other than ...
European Tech Alternatives 🇪🇺(opens in new tab)
For a European with lots of friends and like-minded web folks in the US, it is both heartbreaking and bewildering to see how the political and societal climate in the country is changing right now. All of this is not ...
Tweaking the Circuits(opens in new tab)
When the people at EMI ordered a bunch of Altec 436B compressors in the late 1950s for Abbey Road Studios, they were hoping for that legendary American sound they had heard at their sister studio Capitol Records in Los Angeles. ...
Breaking “provably correct” Leftpad(opens in new tab)
Why? Because it’s fun.
scientifica: mono bitmap font tiny-style(opens in new tab)
I have been pondering what use I could make of a typeface designed to emulate the little pixel text used on tiny, tiny displays or icons. This one kind of looks good enough to use as a code daily driver?? ...
Age Quod Agis(opens in new tab)
Age quod agis. This Latin phrase, attributed to Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit Order, translates to “do what you are doing.” Do what you are doing. Like in: dedicate yourself wholeheartedly to whatever you engage in. Do ...
Where It's at://(opens in new tab)
From handles to hosting.
Blogtober 2025 - Day 1(opens in new tab)
It’s Blogtober again. And this time, I’ve (more or less spontaneously) decided to take part in it. For those of you who don’t know what it is: Blogtober is a writing challenge that takes part every Oktober (similar to Bloguary, ...
Terminal Trove September 2025 Wrap Up(opens in new tab)
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in September 2025.
flowrs(opens in new tab)
A TUI application for Apache Airflow.
How Much Control Do Developers Really Have?(opens in new tab)
A field guide to what developers can control, what they can bend, and what they can only influence inside a larger organisation.
an internet of dogs (geocities)(opens in new tab)
On the memorial page to my dog Heloïse that it’s intentional you can’t find from the top level of my website, the MIDI the gramophone plays – rollicking! piano! badly charted if we’re being honest at least as far as ...
We all have a choice(opens in new tab)
There is hope if we do it together.
The Balanced Engineer • Issue #39(opens in new tab)
Retro Clarity Snapshot(opens in new tab)
A short, external teardown that turns your team’s last retro into a roadmap for shipping faster.
#451: Databases are a Fad(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: PostgreSQL 18 Released Testing is better than DSA (Data Structures and Algorithms) Pyrefly in Cursor/PyCharm/VSCode/etc Playwright & pytest techniques that bring me joy Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the ...
Red Teaming LLMs and GenAI with PyRIT(opens in new tab)
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/521
Obsidian vault setup tour(opens in new tab)
How my Obsidian vault works after, a practical setup. Including bottom-up Zettelkasten notes, plugins, Bases and my general rules.
Understanding, not slop, is what’s interesting about LLMs(opens in new tab)
it was annoying to refind the text of jenny holzer’s truisms(opens in new tab)
I walk by a Holzer installation as part of my commute, sometimes stop, pick a maxim for the day. It’s not so different from pulling a Tarot card or finding a line in a reading – except I’m lying, it ...
Three fascinating Toad facts (the last one blew my mind)(opens in new tab)
Toads are frogs
Open Social(opens in new tab)
The protocol is the API.
I am 40(opens in new tab)
Letters from The Internet.
nihilism re: attention difficulties(opens in new tab)
The suspicion that all this is élite anxiety in the face of a democratizing mediascape deepens when you consider what the attentionistas want people to focus on. Generally, it’s fine art, old books, or untrammelled nature—as if they were running ...
⛔ I Do Not Want Discord's Nitro(opens in new tab)
I do not want Discord’s Nitro. I do not want it, friend or foe. I will not boost, I will not pay, I do not want it any day. I do not want it on my phone, I do not ...
The Year in Agents - AI Engineer Paris(opens in new tab)
I gave a short address for the first AIE Paris conference organized by Koyeb!
annie mueller on rituals(opens in new tab)
Rituals? I can’t stop myself. They’re so good. Absolutely breathtaking. Humanity’s finest work, perhaps. They make no sense. It’s all about beauty, about made-up meaning, about art. Rituals add unnecessary, arbitrary extra requirements to a simple action. Light a candle ...
pyx - the other side of the uv coin (announcing pyx)(opens in new tab)
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/520
The Balanced Engineer • Issue #38(opens in new tab)
#450: At-Cost Agentic IDE Tooling(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: pandas is getting pd.col expressions Cline, At-Cost Agentic IDE Tooling uv cheatsheet Ducky Network UI Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/450
The Glorious Pipe Operator(opens in new tab)
Let's talk about how how the functional pipe operator helps to simplify and improve code readability and composability, and how it contrasts with the fluent interface design pattern commonly used in OOP.
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graphic design for all the in-world advertised brands in mario kart(opens in new tab)
I think I’ve pointed to Elliott before. This video does itself to the point of absurdity. (Watching it, I found myself pretty sick of heavyweight fonts, somehow, but the graphic elements were largely far better than I’d’ve expected)