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Software Practices from the Scrap Heap?(opens in new tab)
I’m going to keep writing half baked things about AI, because it’s what I’m spending a noticeable number of hours thinking about these days, and because I don’t think it’s possible to be fully baked on the topic. Apologies in ...
How much time did you use your phone this weekend?(opens in new tab)
How much time (and how many times) did you use your phone this weekend? What about at this restaurant? While waiting for red lights? In bed, before sleeping and just
OpenClaw, OpenAI and the future(opens in new tab)
I'm joining OpenAI to work on bringing agents to everyone. OpenClaw will move to a foundation and stay open and independent.
Ideation: Because Planning Needs More Than a Mode(opens in new tab)
Claude Code's plan mode is a great starting point for thinking before coding. But for complex work, I needed more than a mode. I needed a system. Here's what I built.
Han shot first (Changelog & Friends #128)(opens in new tab)
Our ol' friend, Brett Cannon, is back to talk all things Python. But first! Star Wars, Machete Order, Lost, Babylon 5, Game of Thrones, Murderbot, Ted Lasso, Project Hail Mary, David Attenborough, perpetual voice rights, and the AI uncanny valley.
JS-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals(opens in new tab)
“In reality, for any decently sized JS-heavy project, you should expect that what you build will be slower than advertised, it will keep getting slower over time while it sees ongoing work, and it will take more effort to develop ...
Every blog post I have shared until 2026(opens in new tab)
In my monthly email newsletter I share cool things I came across on the internet, which so far has included the following blog posts!
Spotlight on SIG Architecture: API Governance(opens in new tab)
This is the fifth interview of a SIG Architecture Spotlight series that covers the different subprojects, and we will be covering SIG Architecture: API Governance. In this SIG Architecture spotlight we talked with Jordan Liggitt, lead of the API Governance ...
Building the machine that builds the machine (Changelog Interviews #676)(opens in new tab)
Paul Dix joins us to discuss the InfluxDB co-founder's journey adapting to an agentic world. Paul sent his AI coding agents on various real-world side quests and shares all his findings: what's going to prod, what's not, and why he's ...
Deploying Rust to production checklist(opens in new tab)
While a lot of time is spent on design patterns and low-level tricks such as SIMD accelerations, I'm suprised that very few resources are available to actually deploy Rust software
Contentment is a spectrum, too(opens in new tab)
I am quite content to be alone except on a mild evening at twilight. During the quick hours of the day I am busy. Busy with things I enjoy doing,...
whosthere(opens in new tab)
A local area network (LAN) discovery tool with a modern TUI interface.
AI_POLICY.md(opens in new tab)
If you maintain Open Source software, you will likely have encountered AI slop PRs.
Fly inside FastAPI Cloud(opens in new tab)
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/536
The skill every manager should look for when hiring engineers(opens in new tab)
Living in the Inflection Point(opens in new tab)
Vouch for an open source web of trust (Changelog News #180)(opens in new tab)
Mitchell Hashimoto's trust management system for open source, Nicholas Carlini has a team of Claudes build a C compiler, Stephan Schwab recounts the history of attempted developer replacement, NanClaw is an alternative to OpenClaw, and Sophie Koonin can't wrap her ...
Code has _always_ been the easy part(opens in new tab)
When I joined Etsy the team was two years into a rewrite chasing a more elegant architecture (actually two distinct incompatible elegant architectures), and hadn’t shipped a customer facing feature in that time. I like to say (and it may ...
Magic Words(opens in new tab)
Skills are the newest hype commodity in the world of agentic AI. Skills are text files that optionally get stapled onto the context window by the agent. You can have skills like “frontend design” or “design tokens” and if the ...
Do this before you ever start coding(opens in new tab)
#469: Commands, out of the terminal(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Command Book App uvx.sh: Install Python tools without uv or Python Ending 15 years of subprocess polling monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI Extras Joke See the full ...
Webspace Invaders(opens in new tab)
A couple of weeks back, I’m sitting at my desk when a direct message from my frontend friend Kevin Powell pops up. Kevin’s a genuinely kind guy. He makes CSS videos on YouTube and he’s got this way of explaining ...
Stop generating, start thinking(opens in new tab)
Async database access in Rust with Diesel 101(opens in new tab)
Diesel, a database ORM in Rust, provides compile-time type checks for its database operations, seamlessly integrating with blazingly fast, robust API applications built with Axum. As always, when working with a new technology, some of the details are difficult to ...
It's a renaissance woman's world (Changelog & Friends #127)(opens in new tab)
Amal Hussein returns to tell us all about her new role at Istari, what life is like outside the web browser, how she's helping ambitious orgs in aerospace, what the SDLC looks like in 2026, and a whole lot more. ...
Coding has changed completely Here's how to master it(opens in new tab)
This one goes out to the ones we love(opens in new tab)
“And he will never never never never never never never get to meet you And I got to meet you Yeah, I got to meet you. —Mikey Mike” I write...
Chris Hemsworth Is an L9 at Amazon, and I Have Questions(opens in new tab)
Chris Hemsworth Is an L9 at Amazon, and I Have Questions The post Chris Hemsworth Is an L9 at Amazon, and I Have Questions appeared first on Last Week in AWS.
AI will change how engineers work forever(opens in new tab)
Clankers with claws(opens in new tab)
The new engineering skill no one was trained for(opens in new tab)
Setting Docker Hardened Images free (Changelog Interviews #675)(opens in new tab)
In May of 2025, Docker launched Hardened Images, a secure, minimal, production-ready set of images. In December, they made DHI freely available and open source to everyone who builds software. On this episode, we're joined by Tushar Jain, EVP of ...
Recap of 2025 and Resolutions for 2026(opens in new tab)
Another year in orbit around a star.
You probably shouldn’t be annotating focus order(opens in new tab)
endcord(opens in new tab)
A feature rich Discord TUI client.
Cloud gaming is kinda amazing(opens in new tab)
Why understanding your emotions will make you better at using AI(opens in new tab)
#468: A bolt of Django(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: django-bolt: Faster than FastAPI, but with Django ORM, Django Admin, and Django packages pyleak More Django (three articles) Datastar Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/468
How Eleventy Survived: Funding, Growth, and Open Source Reality(opens in new tab)
Introducing Node Readiness Controller(opens in new tab)
In the standard Kubernetes model, a node’s suitability for workloads hinges on a single binary "Ready" condition. However, in modern Kubernetes environments, nodes require complex infrastructure dependencies—such as network agents, storage drivers, GPU firmware, or custom health checks—to be fully ...
Big W is now AS9100 3rd Party Lead Auditor Certified!(opens in new tab)
It's only been a few weeks since we completed the Apex QA AS9100 & ISO 9001 Lead Auditor course, and now we have completed the AS9100 third party lead auditor course. While the Lead Auditor course focused on the fundamentals ...
The tech monoculture is finally breaking (Changelog News #179)(opens in new tab)
Jason Willems believes the tech monoculture is finally breaking, Don Ho shares some bad Notepad++ news, Tailscale's Avery Pennarun pens a great downtime apology, Milan Milanović explains why you can only code 4 hours per day, and Addy Osmani on ...
The two most important components for remote teams to be successful(opens in new tab)
September 11th changed his work life forever(opens in new tab)
Terminal Trove January 2026 Wrap Up (opens in new tab)
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in Jaunary 2026.
Improving my newsletter's open rate the hard(er) way(opens in new tab)
Turns out just asking for help gets you help? Who knew? Here's how I increased my newsletter open rate.
I guess I'm AI-pilled now?(opens in new tab)
Feeling something is okay I guess(opens in new tab)
“Most of us think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, but we are actually feeling creatures that think. ― Jill Bolte Taylor” If you’re not feeling as good about...
Natural born SaaS killers (Changelog & Friends #126)(opens in new tab)
We discuss the buzz around Clawdbot / MoltBot / OpenClaw, how app subscriptions are turning into weekend hacking projects, why SaaS stocks are crashing on Wall Street, and what it all means.