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A pretty good email scam(opens in new tab)
How I helped family recover from a clever email scam that hid behind sneaky account settings
The 4 DIMM problem (Changelog & Friends #119)(opens in new tab)
Our old friend Lars Wikman returns to the show to discuss Linux distro hopping, Elixir, Nerves, embedded systems, home automation with Home Assistant, karate, and more.
AWS Finally Lets You Find Your Idle NAT Gateways(opens in new tab)
After years of complaints, AWS Compute Optimizer can identify idle NAT Gateways. At $35/month each plus data processing fees, finding unused gateways just got dramatically easier. The post AWS Finally Lets You Find Your Idle NAT Gateways appeared first on ...
The inner workings of Wikipedia (Changelog Interviews #668)(opens in new tab)
Let's hear how Wikipedia actually works from long-time Wikipedian, Bill Beutler! Bill has been heavily involved with this "8th wonder of the modern world" for two decades and even built a career on it, founding Beutler Ink –a digital agency ...
Why use React?(opens in new tab)
“By default, you get the dreaded hydration pattern—do all the computing on the server in JavaScript (yay!), serve up HTML straight away (yay! yay!) …and then serve up all the same JavaScript that’s on the server anyway (ya—wait, what?).”
kyanos(opens in new tab)
A simple & powerful eBPF-based network issue, analysis and tracing tool.
How to get hired in 2025(opens in new tab)
A collection of red flags in software engineers' test assignments
Happy Thanksgiving from Big W!(opens in new tab)
With Thanksgiving upon us I’m reminded that 2025 is quickly coming to a close. As you look ahead to 2026 I hope you consider Big W Engineering Solutions to help you scale up, expand your capabilities, or overcome tough challenges. ...
Local LLMs are how nerds now justify a big computer they don't need(opens in new tab)
I no longer block AI bots on my website(opens in new tab)
It's now a common pass time for bloggers, content publishers and website administrators to share their best tips and trick on how to best block scraping bots. I've also spent
A Software Engineer's Guide to Agentic Software Development(opens in new tab)
I've cracked the code on breaking the eternal cycle - features win, tech debt piles up, codebase becomes 'legacy', and an eventual rewrite. Using coding agents at GitHub, I now merge multiple tech debt PRs weekly while still delivering features. ...
Is the BenQ coding monitor any good?(opens in new tab)
The BenQ coding monitor does come with one major downside, but it (surprisingly) became my primary monitor as soon as I unboxed it.
What is a tech bubble anyway? (Changelog News #171)(opens in new tab)
Cedric Chin says comparisons of our current AI *maybe-bubble* to the dot-com bubble and the 2008 GFC are limiting, Matthew Prince does a post-mortem on last week's Cloudflare outage, "hl" is a fast / powerful log viewer for humans, Enthusiast ...
Python Black Friday & Cyber Monday sales (2025)(opens in new tab)
No backup, no cry(opens in new tab)
#459: Inverted dependency trees(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Prompt Injection Isn’t a Vulnerability(opens in new tab)
OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. It can be a vulnerability. But it’s almost never the root cause.
🤖 How I Accidentally Spent Over 62 Million OpenAI Tokens(opens in new tab)
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 ...
How reducers work(opens in new tab)
I did a livestream about how reducers work, and now, I give it to you.
I may have just broken standup (using n8n)(opens in new tab)
An n8n automation workflow that generates daily standup updates by pulling data from Jira, Slack, and GitHub to solve the memory problem.
Should I rewrite the Python Launcher for Unix in Python?(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Rewriting SQLite: Adding a new join algorithm(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Python Morsels Lifetime Access Sale(opens in new tab)
NOT a swarm! (Changelog & Friends #118)(opens in new tab)
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(opens in new tab)
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
Non-determinism and ownership(opens in new tab)
Humans and LLMs are both non-deterministic, probabilistic entities when it comes to work... but humans actually are held accountable for mistakes.
The varying strictness of TypedDict(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Like solar, Rust is inevitable(opens in new tab)
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
The "Vibe Coding Keyboard" How I Made My Walk-and-Talk Setup Even More Awesome(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Creating communal computers (Changelog Interviews #667)(opens in new tab)
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 ...
How Cloudflare uses Rust to serve (and break) millions of websites at 50+ millions requests per second(opens in new tab)
Yesterday, on Novemver 18, 2025, Cloudflare deployed
gitlogue(opens in new tab)
A git commit history replay tool for the terminal.
It feels good to be online when most of the internet is down 😎(opens in new tab)
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
Logo: Clojure+(opens in new tab)
Why is Zig so cool? (Changelog News #170)(opens in new tab)
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 ...
#458: I will install Linux on your computer(opens in new tab)
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
Serial Learning: The Most Respectable Developer Addiction(opens in new tab)
Why constant learning can feel productive but quietly erode our ability to think.
The Toad Report #3(opens in new tab)
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.
Retreat to attack (Changelog & Friends #117)(opens in new tab)
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 ...
📅 Office Hours for November(opens in new tab)
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 ...
My new business + tech podcast(opens in new tab)
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...
Needy programs(opens in new tab)
We used to use software; now software started to use us
DO repeat yourself! (Changelog Interviews #666)(opens in new tab)
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 ...
podliner(opens in new tab)
Podcasts in any terminal. Fast, clean, offline.
The academic-hobbyist divide in fish keeping(opens in new tab)
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 ...
#457: Tapping into HTTP(opens in new tab)
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
Hire Me in Japan(opens in new tab)
I'm looking for a new job.
This new AI role is exploding (Changelog News #169)(opens in new tab)
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 ...