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Python’s True Superpower(opens in new tab)
Python appears to be everywhere nowadays! How did it happen, that a language that almost died in the Python 2 to 3 process is now the lingua franca a default choice when people talk about programming? There must be some ...
Data Science Cloud Lessons at Scale(opens in new tab)
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/519
Colocating Data with David Aronchick(opens in new tab)
David has worked on a lot of cool tech you know like Kubernetes and Kubeflow, and he's usually a few years ahead of the game. So getting to catch up with him about what he's working on now is probably ...
teach the history of history to defend it(opens in new tab)
In short, science classes pair a description of our best knowledge at the present with a story of discovery of how we came to know what we know now, with the clear implication that this method is how we will ...
Coolify vs Dokploy: Why I decided to use one over the other(opens in new tab)
Coolify & Dokploy are two of the most popular open souce platforms as a service, but which one is right for you? Well, in order to answer that, I decided to put each one, head to head.
Elixir for PHP Devs(opens in new tab)
Diving into Elixir has been a blast, and its functional paradigms are challenging the way I think about programming. Join me as I chronicle this journey from the perspective of a long-time OOP dev.
React Won by Default – And It's Killing Frontend Innovation(opens in new tab)
“When teams need a new frontend, the conversation rarely starts with “What are the constraints and which tool best fits them?” It often starts with “Let’s use React; everyone knows React.” That reflex creates a self-perpetuating cycle where network effects, ...
The Balanced Engineer • Issue #37(opens in new tab)
better via worse (easy phone tweaks)(opens in new tab)
If you make your phone interface more annoying to navigate, you use it less.
#449: Suggestive Trove Classifiers(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Mozilla’s Lifeline is Safe After Judge’s Google Antitrust Ruling troml - suggests or fills in trove classifiers for your projects pqrs: Command line tool for inspecting Parquet files Testing for Python 3.14 Extras Joke See ...
A New Chapter(opens in new tab)
In a recent turn of events, I find myself at a bit of a crossroads with an exciting new job on the horizon! In this post, I introduce myself and discuss my vision for the new blog.
comment culture: it’s worse than that, even(opens in new tab)
16 years of commenting has made me zero friends. That scares me. All of that social activity with zero ROI. At first, I thought that I needed to change my commenting habits, and, you know, try to make connections. But ...
mailchimp has secret rss(opens in new tab)
As an example, I recently wanted to subscribe to the RawTools newsletter. When I went to their newsletter subscription page, I noticed that their URL looked like this: https://rawtools.us11.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=00722345fc94fb4d4b323edc3&id=4ff553ba3e If you can find a URL from a Mailchimp email campaign ...
Claude Code Anonymous(opens in new tab)
Introducing Claude Code Anonymous - a new meetup format for full-breadth developers.
idle game: teashop(opens in new tab)
I’ve pointed to Jillian’s website indirectly before, but go and enjoy this idle game! It’s short, sweet, features cute pixel art, and there’s a neat “night” mechanic where automations turn off.
Walking around the app(opens in new tab)
There is a very vigorous debate happening online right now around what shape evaluation for LLM-based products should take. I don’t want to rehash all of it, other than saying that if you are building any applications with with non-deterministic ...
Cognition: The Devin is in the Details(opens in new tab)
My thesis for the future of software dev agents. This is a hastily written blogpost done on not a lot of sleep, so pardon poor pacing and structure and typos and mistakes but…
The Balanced Engineer • Issue #36(opens in new tab)
take the three-question wason test, then come back(opens in new tab)
There are four cards, a simple rule, and all you’ve got to do is to work out which cards you need to turn over to see if the rule has been broken. That’s got to be easy, right? Well maybe, ...
#448: I'm Getting the BIOS Flavor(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: prek tinyio The power of Python’s print function Vibe Coding Fiasco: AI Agent Goes Rogue, Deletes Company's Entire Database Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/448
Live Coding Session: Building Arena(opens in new tab)
Watch me build Arena live - a real-time collaborative coding session exploring AI-powered development workflows.
everything is burning (literally)(opens in new tab)
One of the first material scientists I spoke to about making things that last for thousands of years offered a compelling insight: “Everything is burning, just at different rates.” What he means is that what we perceive as aging is ...
How to delete all squash-merged local git branches with one terminal command(opens in new tab)
I wrote a new bash script. And you probably shouldn't use it.
Customizing your Python REPL's color scheme (Python 3.14+)(opens in new tab)
My DjangoCon US 2025 Plans (and How to Find Me)(opens in new tab)
I will be in Chicago this Saturday through next week for DjangoCon US 2025 (September 8-12). I hope to see people there in person. If you can’t make it, please consider getting an online ticket. They are relatively inexpensive, you ...
Terminal Trove August 2025 Wrap Up(opens in new tab)
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in August 2025.
hadn’t read borges’ poetry, already in love with a line from the preface(opens in new tab)
Poetry is no less a mystery than anything else on earth. One or two felicitous lines can hardly stir our vanity, since they are but gifts of Chance or of the Spirit; only the mistakes belong to us. I hope ...
llms.txt adoption(opens in new tab)
Exactly one year ago, Jeremy Howard published a proposal to make the web more accessible to AI and, in particular, to LLMs. How many of the top one million websites adopt this approach? The proposed standard suggests creating a file ...
#447: Going down a rat hole(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: rathole pre-commit: install with uv A good example of what functools.Placeholder from Python 3.14 allows Converted 160 old blog posts with AI Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website ...
A Lean Syntax Primer(opens in new tab)
Programming with proofs.
The Balanced Engineer • Issue #35(opens in new tab)
I am really tempted by math academy(opens in new tab)
This is a review of a manifesto associated with a learning program.
How big are our embeddings now and why?(opens in new tab)
A few years ago, I wrote a paper on embeddings. At the time, I wrote that 200-300 dimension embeddings were fairly common in industry, and that adding more dimensions during training would create diminishing returns for the effectiveness of your ...
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Thanks for Joining Career Course Correction Your seat is confirmed. You’ll get a welcome email shortly with all the key details, including: Start date and time (NZDT) Zoom link for the live sessions Access to the private Signal group A ...
animal crossing letter generator sparking typeface epiphanies(opens in new tab)
The styles that defined Sailor Moon personal shrines and Cardcaptor Sakura LJ icon edits and so forth reached me before Animal Crossing (I was dropped out of college before meeting the latter) and are probably most formative in my sense ...
the US auto industry didn’t collapse, just the Detroit one(opens in new tab)
I don’t know how much we ought to trust this source but I’d definitely believed the included myths without any sources at all, so this may be of interest to others.
Celebrating Django's 20th Birthday With Its Creators(opens in new tab)
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/518
The Toad Report #1(opens in new tab)
Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Toad Report, an irregular series where I document updates to Toad—my terminal interface for agentic coding and all things AI.
Obs.js: Context-Aware Web Performance for Everyone(opens in new tab)
Obs.js is a tiny inline script that exposes network, battery, CPU, and memory signals to CSS and JavaScript so you can adapt to user context.
bill my books to the CIA(opens in new tab)
The ILC developed a database of tens of thousands of dissidents living in the Eastern Bloc and carefully targeted the books it sent. Paris became a critical hub where travelers could load up; the Librairie Polonaise, a venerable Polish bookshop, ...
Making a Website with Obsidian(opens in new tab)
How can you build a website using Obsidian? From markdown to web.
json/v2 is fixing many of Go's JSON quirks(opens in new tab)
The new json/v2 package is looking to be quite interesting
Ditch the Overheating Laptop: Supercharge Your Docker Workflow with Docker Offload(opens in new tab)
Running multiple Docker containers can slow down your laptop and drain your battery. In this blog, we explore Docker Offload — a game-changing feature
Career Course Correction(opens in new tab)
A 6-week program for mid-career developers who feel stuck, coasting, or drifting. Stop autopiloting. Start steering.
My Current AI Dev Workflow(opens in new tab)
Went fully back to Ghostty, VS Code on the side, and Claude Code as my main driver. Here's what actually works after months of experimentation.
maternal devotion in the velvet spider(opens in new tab)
Female velvet spiders exhibit a remarkable type of maternal care unique among arachnids. Upon the birth of her brood, the mother spider liquefies her internal organs and regurgitates this material as food. Once her capability to liquefy her insides is ...
#446: State of Python 2025(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: pypistats.org was down, is now back, and there’s a CLI State of Python 2025 wrapt: A Python module for decorators, wrappers and monkey patching. pysentry Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode ...