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Python in Digital Humanities(opens in new tab)
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/538
🔥 Was always so inspired by that speech where JFK…(opens in new tab)
Was always so inspired by that speech where JFK said "we will go to the moon... or do some other stuff instead" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/feb/27/nasa-changes-delays-moon-missions
Speaking at: State of the Browser (2026)(opens in new tab)
Pattern Match Made in Heaven(opens in new tab)
Pattern matching is one of the first things you'll learn in Elixir that might just completely rewire your brain. Let's dig into how it can change the way you handle data, errors, and control flow.
Opus 4.5 changed everything (Changelog Interviews #678)(opens in new tab)
Burke Holland works on GitHub Copilot by day and codes with his AI agents always. Early January, Burke posted about how Opus 4.5 changed everything. We were all still buzzing from the holiday-season 2x usage bump Claude gave us, and ...
Before You Migrate: Five Surprising Ingress-NGINX Behaviors You Need to Know(opens in new tab)
As announced November 2025, Kubernetes will retire Ingress-NGINX in March 2026. Despite its widespread usage, Ingress-NGINX is full of surprising defaults and side effects that are probably present in your cluster today. This blog highlights these behaviors so that you ...
đź“Ť Sushi Izuki(opens in new tab)
Finally got a chance to visit @izukiorlando with @instantsal this week. Generally, I set my expectations for sushi in Florida to quite low, especially if the restaurant isn't Japanese-owned. Izuki blew away those admittedly reserved expectations with one of the ...
Start where you are: A practical guide to building with AI(opens in new tab)
🔥 The new Star Trek Voyager game is such a…(opens in new tab)
The new Star Trek Voyager game is such a thorough simulation that I think it's convinced me to abandon my dreams of joining Starfleet when I grow up. Being a captain is no fun at all!
How I Use django-simple-nav for Dashboards, Command Palettes, and More(opens in new tab)
I first got exposed to django-simple-nav while working with Josh Thomas at the Westervelt Company over the last two or three years. It quickly became a go-to library in my toolkit. django-simple-nav lets you define nav items and groupings in ...
Constance Crozier: Forecasting s-curves is hard(opens in new tab)
There was a famous Covid era chart that I always struggle to find, showing how hard it is to estimate an S curve while living through it. in the early days it seems that…
Writing My First Evals(opens in new tab)
I had no background in evals. I built two very different evaluation systems for two AI-powered developer tools, and they taught me the same lesson: trust isn't a feeling, it's a measurement.
đź“„ Agents are ushering in the Antisocial Coding era(opens in new tab)
The first time I visited GitHub's HQ2 in 2012, they had a TV showing off their first animations of Mona and were using it to push their new tagline: Social Coding. The phrase certainly captured the moment we were living ...
🔥 If you've posted an issue to any of my repos and…(opens in new tab)
If you've posted an issue to any of my repos and I never responded: GitHub apparently disabled automatic watching for new repositories last year and nobody noticed. Issues are now graveyards from Day 1. No wonder my inbox has been ...
ing-switch: Migrate from Ingress NGINX to Traefik or Gateway API in Minutes, Not Days(opens in new tab)
Developing Measurements with Cat Hicks(opens in new tab)
SoCal Linux Expo - discount "FAFOF" -https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/Kubecon EU Amsterdam - https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/Linuxfest North West - https://linuxfestnorthwest.org/Newsletter - https://sub.fafo.fm/Dr. Cat Hicks takes a different approach to traditional engineer productivity measurements. Instead of turning engineers into velocity numbers she takes a holistic approach ...
Working Safely With AI Tools (A Non-Expert's Field Notes)(opens in new tab)
My AI wishlist(opens in new tab)
May the hardware shortages empower European and Chinese companies to drastically boost investments into RISC-V hardware so it could become a viable architecture for production workloads earlier than expected.
lazykiq(opens in new tab)
A rich terminal UI for Sidekiq.
Breaking SHA-2: length extension attacks in practice with Rust(opens in new tab)
Some time ago, we saw that SHA-2 (SHA-256 & SHA-512) should probably be your function of choice for 2030 and beyond, because SHA-3 is too slow and BLAKE3 is (unfortunately)
AI’s Impact on Software and Bug Bounty(opens in new tab)
I have a lot of thoughts on how AI will affect things, including bug bounty. And most of it is speculation, of course, but I have to put this out into the world because I want to know if this ...
The mythical agent-month (Changelog News #182)(opens in new tab)
Wes McKinney on the mythical agent-month, install Peon Ping to employ a Peon today, Andreas Kling explains why Ladybird is adopting Rust, Cloudflare has a new MCP server that's quite efficient, and Elliot Bonneville thinks the only moat left is ...
Continvoucly Morged Value(opens in new tab)
You might have seen the diagram before. The one Vincent Driessen put up on his website a few years ago to explain the concept of a Git branching model. Source: Vincent Driessen’s original Git branching model diagram A few days ...
Why requiring employees return to the office is the wrong decision(opens in new tab)
#470: A Jolting Episode(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Better Python tests with inline-snapshot jolt Battery intelligence for your laptop Markdown code formatting with ruff act - run your GitHub actions locally Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the ...
Is NIST's cryptography backdoored?(opens in new tab)
While common people suffer from insecure systems (data theft, identity and financial fraud, blackmail...), governments love to be able to stick their nose wherever they want, whenever they want, something
Smaller and dumber(opens in new tab)
If I can make it smaller, I should. If I can make it dumber, I should. Smaller, dumber things have more applications, go more places, and require less maintenance.
Priority of idle hands(opens in new tab)
I had a small, intrusive realization the other day that computers and the internet are probably bad for me. I mean that beyond the general advice to touch grass. From an ADHD and generalized anxiety perspective, computers and the internet ...
TIL: Using PygmentsRenderer with mistletoe as a partial(opens in new tab)
Another part of the process of switching from marked.js and python-markdown to just using mistletoe.
CLI subcommands with lazy imports(opens in new tab)
In case you didn't hear, PEP 810 got accepted which means Python 3.15 is going to support lazy imports! One of the selling points of lazy imports is with code that has a CLI so that you only import code ...
Datastar: Modern web dev, simplified(opens in new tab)
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/537
How passkeys work(opens in new tab)
If you're not sure about the ins and outs of passkeys, here's a little primer.
Querying 3 billion vectors(opens in new tab)
Recently, I got nerd-sniped by this exchange between Jeff Dean and someone trying to query 3 billion vectors. I was curious to see if I could implement the optimal map-reduce solution he alludes to in his reply. A vector is ...
Determine this before implementing AI in your business(opens in new tab)
Selling SDKs in the era of many Claudes (Changelog Interviews #677)(opens in new tab)
Steve Ruiz joins us for a deep-dive on tldraw (a very good free whiteboard) and the business he's built selling SDKs that help others build very good whiteboards (and more) with tldraw's high-performance web canvas. Along the way, we discuss ...
Jordan Baird's Ice beta fixed my macOS Tahoe menu bar issues(opens in new tab)
If you use a Mac, you’ve probably noticed that the menu bar fills up with icons pretty quickly. Bartender and Ice (sadly, now an unfortunate name) are apps that let you manage and hide unwanted icons from your macOS menu ...
Why faster coding doesn’t mean faster delivery(opens in new tab)
An Official* Logo for HTML(opens in new tab)
I am making videos again!(opens in new tab)
Catch me on YouTube and Twitch, y'all.
My displays keep rearranging and displayplacer fixed it(opens in new tab)
Today I learned about displayplacer - “macOS command line utility to configure multi-display resolutions and arrangements.” In December, I upgraded to MacOS Tahoe and picked up the TS4 dock for my work machine. While my upgrade was painless, the biggest ...
I used Claude Code and GSD to build the accessibility tool I’ve always wanted(opens in new tab)
Omacon comes to New York(opens in new tab)
How Rust and Its Compiler Have Revolutionized Software Engineering and Reliability(opens in new tab)
A lot of reasonable people may perceive my enthusiasm for Rust as misguided fanaticism, but it isn't. It's cold pragmatism. Sherlock Holmes liked to say "When you have eliminated the
Notes on clarifying man pages(opens in new tab)
dealve-tui(opens in new tab)
Delve into game deals from your terminal.
Take a hard game, and make it shorter(opens in new tab)
You are of course aware that attention spans are shrinking. YouTube -> Shorts, Instagram Reels, Tiktoks, etc have taken over the world.
All the Claw things (Changelog News #181)(opens in new tab)
Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI, ZeroClaw is "claw done right", MimiClaw runs on a $5 chip, Steve Yegge on managing the AI Vampire, and the day the telnet died.