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If You are Asking for Human Attention, Demonstrate Human Effort — Tom Bedor. There’s a bit of a blog post that goes with it, but the title really says it all. Pairs nicely with Dave’s I don’t want a screenshot ...
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Of God and mammon(opens in new tab)
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 ...
7 years ago, I left nursing for tech. I'll NEVER go back.(opens in new tab)
#484: All our tools(opens in new tab)
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
I built a game where you spend Elon Musk's money(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Running local models is good now(opens in new tab)
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 ...
BLAKE3 at 13GB/s on Zen 5(opens in new tab)
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
Announcing What Can’t I Press?(opens in new tab)
The case for an accessibility designer vibe coding when all his coworkers are also vibe coding(opens in new tab)
Spotlight on SIG Storage(opens in new tab)
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 ...
The cube, the epicycles and the human face(opens in new tab)
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 ...
KeyCon 2026 recap(opens in new tab)
I spoke at KeyCon, a mechanical keyboard convention!
How I Work From Anywhere Without Losing My Place(opens in new tab)
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: ...
RSS Club #008: Duck duck, swan?(opens in new tab)
This is an RSS-only post, thank you for subscribing :) If you’re only here for web and tech talk you can skip this one! I rescued an animal today! Probably… The UK has its fair share of canals. I like ...
Dangerous Technology For Americans Only(opens in new tab)
There is a bit of schadenfreude on Twitter right now about Anthropic being hit by the US government’s export control directive to suspend access to Fable and Mythos. Anthropic and their leadership have spent a lot of time and effort ...
Every Frame Perfect(opens in new tab)
How imprecise UI animations erode trust in product
The Story of PHP | TEASER(opens in new tab)
The Raven Tattoo(opens in new tab)
I’ve long been envious of my friends with sweet sleeve tattoos. It’s a cool place for a tattoo. You get to see it yourself a lot. Some of it sticks out from a rolled-up shirt-sleeve which is fun and mysterious. ...
Self-Host Weekly (12 June 2026) (opens in new tab)
An ode to what was, and what could have been
Stroll Down Startup Lane - 2026(opens in new tab)
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 ...
When Perfection Is the Enemy of Quality Culture: Lessons from the Nuclear Security Enterprise(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Vibe Coding Is Dangerous, Agentic Engineering Isn't—Wes McKinney(opens in new tab)
This series interviews real practitioners to extract the patterns behind how they actually use AI in their data work today. This is the second interview in ‘How to use AI with DE’, and this time we have none other than ...
Git commit prompt injection(opens in new tab)
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
Anders Hejlsberg: How to Build a Programming Language(opens in new tab)
Suing The Government with Cindy Cohn(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 ...
Announcing stdx, Rust's extended standard library: simplicity, performance and supply chain security for everyone(opens in new tab)
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.
Day 4: Quantization Demystified. BF16, FP8, NVFP4, MXFP4, INT4, GGUF, and Why It All Matters(opens in new tab)
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.
Microsoft Build 2026 recap(opens in new tab)
I spoke (a lot) at Microsoft Build in San Francisco!
I built a GoodReads reading stats dashboard(opens in new tab)
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...
golazo(opens in new tab)
A TUI for following football (soccer) matches in real-time.
I Tried Every Major Linux Distro So You Don't Have To (Here's What I Found)(opens in new tab)
#483: Thanks Brian(opens in new tab)
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 ...
It doesn’t matter if it works(opens in new tab)
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 solid tradition // Week 23 — 2026(opens in new tab)
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...
Sprinter Van Phone Mount + Better CarPlay-Compatible Cable Situation(opens in new tab)
This is the stock look of my 2021 Sprinter van front console area: If it’s not obvious, there’s no great place for a phone. You’ve got the cup holders. Those are actually sorta workable, except for this boss battle: wired-only ...
From open source hits to OpenAI (Changelog Interviews #682)(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Self-Host Weekly (5 June 2026) (opens in new tab)
42 million Plex users can't be wrong
We are in the golden age of Open Source. Surf the wave until it crashes.(opens in new tab)
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
Day 3: The DGX Spark Unpacked. GB10, Unified Memory, sm_121, and the One Reason This Hardware Exists(opens in new tab)
A practical teardown of NVIDIA DGX Spark's GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, unified memory, sm_121, NVFP4 tensor cores, memory reporting, and decode limits.
The New Van(opens in new tab)
I got something I’ve wanted for years and years! A camper van! I’m a camper van guy now! It’s a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, and even more technically a Winnebago Revel. I scoured Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, and RV-specific sites for a long ...
Kubernetes Autoscaling(opens in new tab)
Workload and node autoscaling in 2026
Book Overflow and two architectural patterns in CAP(opens in new tab)
How I made a 45-video course without wanting to die(opens in new tab)
Tips and tricks from me to you.
A pond of interesting problems(opens in new tab)
Async Rust: deep dive into cooperative scheduling and Tokio's architecture(opens in new tab)
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
A survey of inlining heuristics(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Wandler: Local OpenAI-Compatible Inference With Transformers.js and WebGPU(opens in new tab)
A practical Wandler deep dive with a local M1 Max WebGPU demo, real latency numbers, architecture diagrams, and getting-started commands.
The Case for Talking to Your Computer(opens in new tab)
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 ...
herdr(opens in new tab)
A tmux-like and agent-aware terminal multiplexer.
A Tale of Two Quality Cultures: The Importance of Quality Integration(opens in new tab)
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 ...
