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.
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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 ...
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 ...
Living in Macau(opens in new tab)
What is it like to live in Macau? Working in a special administrative region of China, at the University of Macau.
Agentic Al Programming with Python(opens in new tab)
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/517
Essential Reading for Agentic Engineers - August 2025(opens in new tab)
Five essential perspectives that cut through AI hype: from developer evolution stages to junior learning crises, productivity reality checks, platform disruption, and MCP server pitfalls.
🗓️ Office Hours for Late August(opens in new tab)
I’m hosting office hours on the next two Fridays in August. Office Hours Schedule Friday, August 22, 2025, 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm CT Friday, August 29, 2025, 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm CT Join Us These sessions are open ...
AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That’s Now Wrong(opens in new tab)
One of the neat things about AWS is that it's almost twenty years old. One of the unfortunate things about AWS is... that it's almost twenty years old The post AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That’s ...
Dangers of AI(opens in new tab)
Risks of AI - Misinformation, power concentration, skill loss. The shift towards a bot-filled internet.
Why is CSS ::first-letter not working?(opens in new tab)
I had some misconceptions about this sneaky pseudo element.
Your Twitch live stream graphics don’t really matter, but they can help(opens in new tab)
Create a professional-looking stream brand with just a few key graphics.
Just One More Prompt(opens in new tab)
Hi, my name is Peter and I'm a Claudoholic. A reflection on AI addiction, extreme work culture, and the blurry line between productivity and obsession in the age of agentic engineering.
Accelerating Python Data Science at NVIDIA(opens in new tab)
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/516
What If the Internet Wasn’t Free?(opens in new tab)
A thought experiment: how different would the web look if every service came with a price tag?
Low- and Mid-Tier Mobile for the Real World (2025)(opens in new tab)
Discover the most representative low- and mid-tier mobile devices for web performance testing in 2025.
Magic floating-point numbers: NaNs(opens in new tab)
After following Laurie Kirk down a rabbit hole on subnormal numbers in the IEEE 754 float specification, I stumbled upon other interesting properties of floating-point numbers, specifically how NaNs (Not a Number) are represented in binary. After more than 10 ...
10 CLI apps that have actually improved the way I work in the terminal(opens in new tab)
Out of all of the cli applications out there, few have really transformed the way I work in the terminal. However, there are some that have had a huge transformation, so much so that I thought it worthwhile to share ...
Building Trust with Sean Goedecke(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Beyond Booleans(opens in new tab)
What is the type of 2 + 2 = 4?
238: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish(opens in new tab)
A farewell to a fun 10 years.Also, I should have tested it better. :)In the audio I got the numbers wrong. Doh!This is episode 238, not 237. Oh well.I'll still be around, of course, at:pythontest.com - where I write about ...
What is NEW NET ART ??(opens in new tab)
A short explainer of New Net Art for the uninitiated!
The Two Faces of a Failing Culture(opens in new tab)
An open review of workplace culture and patterns I've seen across the years.
Syncthing 2.0 Upgrade Notes(opens in new tab)
Syncthing 2.0 was released last week, and I upgraded my Macs and my Intel NUC. I’m pleased with the performance. I never had complaints about it being slow, but the new app is much faster. I like that they’re using ...
Checkpointing performance in Write-Ahead-Logs(opens in new tab)
Making Checkpointing fast Since I began working for turso officially in May of this year (relevant post), I had been spending most of my time learning the inner workings of the cloud platform, and familiarizing myself with the other codebases ...
237: FastAPI Cloud - Sebastián Ramírez(opens in new tab)
In this episode, Brian interviews Sebastián Ramírez, creator of FastAPI, about its rapid rise in developer popularity and the launch of FastAPI Cloud. Sebastian explains how FastAPI Cloud addresses deployment challenges small teams face. He shares his transition from open-source ...
Rustdesk Server on Ubuntu 22.04(opens in new tab)
As usual, I’m self-documenting a project while I work on it. Rustdesk is an open source remote control utility that caught my eye about a year ago; it’s cross platform and allows you to self-host your own “relay server” so ...
The Balanced Engineer • Issue #32(opens in new tab)
Learn systems, not langauges(opens in new tab)
Due to the nature of my story and the attention that it's received, as mentioned in my last post, I frequently get emails from developers, college kids, or other people with troubled pasts that are looking for advice on either ...
