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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 ...
Before I go: People like it when other people make things(opens in new tab)
I’ve watched a billion hours of YouTube and I’ve noticed a common trend: Whether that’s a drawing, a video game, a song, a cake, or a whole-ass off-grid house; I’ve learned that it’s fun to watch people make something. Since ...
Value numbering(opens in new tab)
Welcome back to compiler land. Today we’re going to talk about value numbering, which is like SSA, but more. Static single assignment (SSA) gives names to values: every expression has a name, and each name corresponds to exactly one expression. ...
2026.Q1 Review(opens in new tab)
TL;DR - In 2026.Q1 I participated in a 12-week programming retreat, published my 1,000th blog post, started building with Rust, solidified my agentic engineering workflows, shipped my first game, star...
Hello Again, World(opens in new tab)
On December 24, 1968, Christmas Eve, astronaut William Anders took what would become one of the most consequential photographs in human history. He was aboard Apollo 8, orbiting the Moon for the fourth time, when the spacecraft rotated and the ...
Kubernetes Carrier V2(opens in new tab)
New and improved mobile Kubernetes cluster
Self-Host Weekly (3 April 2026) (opens in new tab)
Nextcloud v. OnlyOffice, April Fools' Day jokes, and throwbacks to 1995
Facebook's Terms of Service(opens in new tab)
Why posting on Facebook that you do not give them rights over what you posted on their platform is useless. In fact, as soon as you post that statement on Facebook, Facebook can do with it whatever they want.
What Is CSS Containment and How Can I Use It?(opens in new tab)
CSS containment lets you isolate layout and paint work to self-contained ‘islands’. Here’s what each contain value does and how to use it safely.
Flight Observatory Mumbai Airspace Case Study(opens in new tab)
A closer analysis on the airspace around Mumbai's BOM/VABB (CSMIA) Airport. Questioning the intuitions from memories and answering and reasoning through the data.
Deep Agents: LangChain's SDK for Agents That Plan and Delegate(opens in new tab)
When you type a question into ChatGPT, the model only has what you typed to work with. But tools like Claude Code can plan, iterate, test, and recover from mistakes. They work more like we do. The difference is the ...
What Claude Code's Leaked Source Actually Teaches Us About Building AI Agents(opens in new tab)
512K lines of TypeScript, verified against actual source. The engineering patterns in Claude Code's leaked codebase that most coverage got wrong.
This, Still Not for Everyone(opens in new tab)
The new WebAIM Million report is out, the eighth annual accessibility analysis of the top one million home pages on the Web. And after eight years of data, the picture is as sobering as ever. In 2019, 97.8% of home ...
Bugs that the Rust compiler catches for you: The revolution of compiler-enforced correctness(opens in new tab)
Over the decades, Humans have proved to be pretty bad at producing bug-free software. Trying to apply our approximative, fuzzy thoughts to perfectly logical computers seems doomed. While the practice
Build a Fullstack SSR Web App with Rust + Maud(opens in new tab)
In this post we'll be building a fullstack web app with server-side rendered (SSR) HTML using Rust and Maud. This post continues our series on building webapps with Rust: Build a Simple Single-File R...
Terminal Trove March 2026 Wrap Up(opens in new tab)
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in March 2026.
hyprmoncfg(opens in new tab)
A terminal first monitor configurator and daemon for Hyprland.
Why I'm betting on ATProto (and why you should, too)(opens in new tab)
Social media was supposed to connect us, but most of it has turned into ads, division, and loneliness. I'm betting on ATProto as a way to fix that, and not just for developers. Whether you're a scientist, journalist, or just ...
The Ingress NGINX Migration Just Got Easier: 119 Annotations, 3 Targets, Impact Ratings(opens in new tab)
\"Ingress NGINX was archived March 24, 2026. ing-switch maps all 119 NGINX annotations with
When All You Can Do Is All or Nothing, Do Nothing(opens in new tab)
If your design system can only apply `loading=lazy` or `fetchpriority=high` blindly, it may be safer not to apply them at all.
Why I'm betting on ATProto (and why you should, too)(opens in new tab)
Social media was supposed to connect us, but most of it has turned into ads, division, and loneliness. I'm betting on ATProto as a way to fix that, and not just for developers. Whether you're a scientist, journalist, or just ...
#475: Haunted warehouses(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Lock the Ghost Fence for Sandboxing MALUS: Liberate Open Source Harden your GitHub Actions Workflows with zizmor, dependency pinning, and dependency cooldowns Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website ...
My rainbow sweater(opens in new tab)
My sweater is weird but it is special and important to me.
Kubernetes v1.36 Sneak Peek(opens in new tab)
Kubernetes v1.36 is coming at the end of April 2026. This release will include removals and deprecations, and it is packed with an impressive number of enhancements. Here are some of the features we are most excited about in this ...
Astral has been acquired by OpenAI (Changelog News #184)(opens in new tab)
Astral is joining OpenAI, which says a lot about where the center of gravity is moving for developer tools, LiteLLM got hit by a nasty supply-chain attack, and OpenCode blew up as the latest serious open source swing at the ...
Self-Host Weekly (27 March 2026) (opens in new tab)
Controversial donation banners, Booklore successors, and a public service announcement for GitHub users
Using Perfetto in ZJIT(opens in new tab)
Originally published on Rails At Scale. Look! A trace of slow events in a benchmark! Hover over the image to see it get bigger. img { max-width: 100%; } img:hover { transform: scale(2); transition: transform 0.1s ease-in; } img:not(:hover) { ...
I got yet another digital typewriter: The BYOK(opens in new tab)
I love my single-purpose devices, and I got another one for distraction-free writing called the BYOK!
What I built at Recurse Center - a 12 week programming retreat (Return Statement W2'26)(opens in new tab)
I just finished my 12-week programming retreat at Recurse Center. As is tradition, we write "return statements" to reflect on the time - what we did, built, and learned. What is Recurse Cen...
What Is Your Name in Another Universe?(opens in new tab)
Weekend articles should be lighter and fun. Not everything has to be an argument, a deep dive, or a small your average frustration disguised as an essay. Sometimes I just want to build a tiny piece of nonsense, the sort ...
Why pylock.toml includes digital attestations(opens in new tab)
A Python project got hacked where malicious releases were directly uploaded to PyPI. I said on Mastodon that had the project used trusted publishing with digital attestations, then people using a pylock.toml file would have noticed something odd was going ...
Zensical - a modern static site generator(opens in new tab)
If you've built documentation in the Python ecosystem, chances are you've used Martin Donath's work. His Material for MKDocs powers docs for FastAPI, uv, AWS, OpenAI, and tens of thousands of other projects. But when MKDocs 2.0 took a direction ...
Basecamp becomes agent accessible(opens in new tab)
Building pentest devices with Rust and ESP32-C6 microcontrollers(opens in new tab)
Growing up with James Bond, Alex Rider and Inspector gadget, I've naturally always been fascinated by gadgets that enable the hero to spy and fight the badies. Fast forward a
A history of styling choices leading to native CSS(opens in new tab)
How I switched from Less to Sass to CSS Modules to PostCSS nested and nesting to finally, at last, using pure CSS.
Build a Single-File Rust Web API with SQLite(opens in new tab)
In this post we'll continue our series of building web APIs with Rust. In the last post we built a single-file web API with Rust and Axum using in-memory storage. Now we're going to add a database as ...
cliamp(opens in new tab)
A terminal music player inspired by winamp.
Coding on Vacation(opens in new tab)
The question I asked myself (and the private Slack channel): is ensuring that I have a phone based approach to agentic coding while I’m on vacation healthy because I’m ensuring that I’m not on the computer, a phone is less ...
When (not) to break rules(opens in new tab)
“You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. — Alvin Toffler” A rule (or boundary)...
The End(opens in new tab)
“In my experience, React (et al) is almost always the wrong solution. React has its place, I’m sure, but it has turned into the proverbial hammer that makes everything look like a nail. I also know that React can be ...
Denmark desperately needs more inequality(opens in new tab)
#474: Astral to join OpenAI(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Starlette 1.0.0 Astral to join OpenAI uv audit Fire and forget (or never) with Python’s asyncio Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/474