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Keep the Robots Out of the Gym/images/keep-robots-out-gym-v35.webp/images/keep-robots-out-gym-v35.webp AI is getting so good now at the end of 2025 that I now have a new, primary recommendation going into 2026: Think very carefully about where you get help from AI. I ...
AI Quality Dystopia/images/ai-quality-dystopia.png/images/ai-quality-dystopia.png Nano Banana Pro has shown me a type of AI dystopia I hadn't thought of before.https://blog.google/technology/ai/nano-banana-pro/ During the soon-to-be good-ol-days of 2023 to 2025, when we saw low-quality output fro...
Topics covered in this episode: PEP 814 – Add frozendict built-in type From Material for MkDocs to Zensical Tach Some Python Speedups in 3.15 and 3.16 Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at ...
OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. It can be a vulnerability. But it’s almost never the root cause.
Selling things stresses me out. But making things is fun, so here we are. If you’re looking for holiday gifts – for yourself or others – I’d love to help out. Take my pots, please!
I’ve been fighting a runaway OpenAI bill for the last few weeks. I was worried I was leaking one of my API keys in a non-obvious way, possibly in one of my public projects. Two weeks ago, I deleted all ...
I did a livestream about how reducers work, and now, I give it to you.
An n8n automation workflow that generates daily standup updates by pulling data from Jira, Slack, and GitHub to solve the memory problem.
I want to be upfront that this blog post is for me to write down some thoughts that I have on the idea of rewriting the Python Launcher for Unix from Rust to pure Python. This blog post is not ...
I am not sure that there exists a group of bigger SQLite nerds than those of us at Turso. We use SQLite for everything.. Including for OLAP workloads where we should be using duckdb, or for services which we would ...
Practical AI co-host, Chris Benson, joins us to discuss the latest advancements in AI, drones, home automation, and robotic swarming tech. Chris defines "swarm" with detail/precision and it turns out that what most people are calling a swarm today is ...
Entrepreneurs and athletes are all the same: they find the red zone and stay there until they win... or die of exhaustion. Actually, many entrepreneurs are also athletes, as if
Humans and LLMs are both non-deterministic, probabilistic entities when it comes to work... but humans actually are held accountable for mistakes.
I was writing some code where I was using httpx.get() and its params parameter. I decided to use a TypedDict for the dictionary I was passing as the argument since it was for a REST API, where the potential keys ...
Proofreading yesterday's analysis of Rust usage at Cloudflare made me put words on a deep feeling that I have since long time, as this blog can attest. Rust is not
So, picture this: you’re working at a walking desk, you’ve got a cool voice-to-text tool like MacWhisper running, and you want to control it all with just a couple of dedicated keys. That was the dream that led me to ...
Spencer Chang caught our attention with the alive internet theory website, but he creates all kinds of computery things to bring people together around play, connection, and creation. Spencer's experiments with computing-infused objects inspired him to create an entire line ...
Yesterday, on Novemver 18, 2025, Cloudflare deployed
A git commit history replay tool for the terminal.
A significant portion of the web is currently down due to a Cloudflare outage. This is the second / third time that something like that happen in less than 30
Nilo Stolte explains why Zig is "a totally new way to write programs", George Mack gives twelve actionable ways to be more creative, Mario Zechner shares his findings on using MCP vs Bash tools, Josh Collinsworth compares creating AI art ...
Topics covered in this episode: Possibility of a new website for Django aiosqlitepool deptry browsr Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/458
Why constant learning can feel productive but quietly erode our ability to think.
Welcome to the third issue of the Toad Report. If you are new here, Toad is a universal interface for API I am currently building.
Do you like director's commentaries and extended cuts? This episode is like that, but for this week's News. We go deep on the alive internet theory, Meshtastic mesh networks, Zstandard compression, the FDE job explosion, React's seemingly perpetual dominance, and ...
I’m hosting office hours on the next two Fridays in November. Office Hours Schedule Friday, November 14, 2025, 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm CT Starting at 2pm CT, I’ll be working on some community/open source projects if anyone wants to ...
After reading1 the recent news about the unsurprising lack of diversity in podcasting — “64% of the hosts of the most popular US podcasts of 2024 were men…Shows with video...
We used to use software; now software started to use us
Prolific software blogger, Sean Goedecke, joins us to discuss why he believes software engineers need to be involved in the politics of their organization, how to avoid worry driven development, what is "good taste" in software engineering, where agentic coding ...
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To prioritize the safety and security of the ecosystem, Kubernetes SIG Network and the Security Response Committee are announcing the upcoming retirement of Ingress NGINX. Best-effort maintenance will continue until March 2026. Afterward, there will be no further releases, no ...
Reddit and other online sources of aquarium info are both vexing and all hobbyists really have access to. Reddit is dominated by a lot of people who just repeat “rules” with no concept of whether they have any validity or ...
Topics covered in this episode: httptap 10 Smart Performance Hacks For Faster Python Code FastRTC Explore Python dependencies with pipdeptree and uv pip tree Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/457
Optimizing compilers like to keep track of each IR instruction’s effects. An instruction’s effects vary wildly from having no effects at all, to writing a specific variable, to completely unknown (writing all state). This post can be thought of as ...
I'm looking for a new job.
A new AI-led tech role has emerged with a massive increase of job postings, Corey Quinn explains why younger devs won't tolerate pain in the AWS, Thomas Ptacek makes the case that you should write an agent, Paul Kinlan goes ...
Today we’re digging into the Model Context Protocol, or MCP. Think LSP for AI: build a small Python service once and your tools and data show up across editors and agents like VS Code, Claude Code, and more. My guest, ...
AI is a pain in the back.
The 2025 Steering Committee Election is now complete. The Kubernetes Steering Committee consists of 7 seats, 4 of which were up for election in 2025. Incoming committee members serve a term of 2 years, and all members are elected by ...
My 2.5 year old Nadia told me some lovely sentiments as we walked today.
I was feeling sad and overwhelmed and unmoored yesterday so after work I didn’t go to the gym or get groceries or any of the other things I should do. Instead I...
On this seventh iteration of our award-worthy game show filled with obscure jargon, fake definitions, and expert tomfoolery: past winners battle to determine the champion of champions. (Also, Adam.)
another talk I am giving at Mastra's TypeScript AI conf today https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NnQ3H5Bki3vWRRJdVXoCFJ5dsNKH9QrC-eEQ2Z8olck/edit?usp=sharing
Ready to rock your Kubernetes networking? The Kubernetes SIG Network community presented the General Availability (GA) release of Gateway API (v1.4.0)! Released on October 6, 2025, version 1.4.0 reinforces the path for modern, expressive, and extensible service networking in Kubernetes. ...
A lot of people were surprised at my decision to leave the corporate world. I was at a great company, led an amazing team, and had just cleared some very significant hurdles on the product my team supported. When I ...
