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If you've worked with Titanium, you know that cold working it comes with some real restrictions. What if it didn't have to be that way? Ultrasonic-assisted forming has been studied since the 1950s , with industrial application in wire ...
The joys of vibecoding.
It’s no secret that Kubernetes can be both powerful and frustrating at times. When I first started dabbling with container orchestration, I made more than my fair share of mistakes enough to compile a whole list of pitfalls. In this ...
Topics covered in this episode: djrest2 - A small and simple REST library for Django based on class-based views. Github CLI caniscrape - Know before you scrape. Analyze any website's anti-bot protections in seconds. 🐴 GittyUp Extras Joke See the ...
In this episode, we’ll dig into how managers can balance output, impact, and quality, set meaningful goals, and coach engineers toward growth — not just manage them. We’ll also tackle how to handle underperformance, keep top talent motivated, and build ...
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/524
When exploiting AI applications, I find myself using this technique really often so I figured I’d write a quick blog about it. I call it the “Metanarrative Prompt Injection.” You might have already used this before, and it might already ...
I respect quality software and the people who write it. And, I’ve invested years of my life in working on becoming one of these people (even if the journey has been long and hard and has involved lots of YAML). ...
Built in 1899 by the Czech architect Dušan Jurkovič, known as “the poet of timber” for his woodwork, the cottage and hotel are a lively combination of Czech-Slavic heritage and the Art Nouveau style of the time. The fairy tale-esque ...
Starting a new chapter of my life, beginning with my 4000€ and a one-way flight to South Korea.
(Note: The Policy Working Group has completed its mission and is no longer active. This article reflects its work, accomplishments, and insights into how a working group operates.) In the complex world of Kubernetes, policies play a crucial role in ...
Whether you are running online workshops, recording audio or video, or making music, it’s worth spending some time on acoustic treatment for your room. Shit in, shit out, as they say… In my case, I wanted to improve the sound ...
In the late 1960s, a young musician was recording the sounds he played on his synthesizer onto his Revox tape recorders, when he suddenly discovered: if you connect the two tape recorders together, so that the playback head is separated ...
Topics covered in this episode: PyPI+ uv-ship - a CLI-tool for shipping with uv How fast is 3.14? air - a new web framework built with FastAPI, Starlette, and Pydantic. Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode ...
I just created a Mastodon account for Pingoo: @[email protected] Follow us to get the latest updates and technical deep dives on how we are building the fastest and most secure
I still remember that moment. Do You? For me, that was a moment I never thought I’d see. The leaders of the world, finding common ground – agreeing to limit global warming to 2°C, and aiming for 1.5°C. Everyone, finally, ...
I became a manager during a time of very significant change. The entire reason the role I was hired into existed was due to a combination of an increase in scope as well as an increase in customer expectations, and ...
I just created a Bluesky account for Pingoo: @pingoo.io Follow it to get the latest updates and technical deep dives on how we are building the fastest and most secure
How many times have you wanted to implement a feature, only to learn that your cloud provider don't offer this or that PostgreSQL extension and thus you need to bloat
A CLI tool to backup your databases, files to cloud storage.
Applying human ergonomics and design principles to syntax highlighting
p code { background: rgb(134 134 134 / 30%); border-radius: 4px; } One of the most amazing things about working on the Web is that you can have years of experience under your belt and there are still things you ...
AWS has done its quarterly housecleaning / "Googling" of its services, and deprecated what appears at first glance to be a startlingly long list. However, going through them put my mind at ease, and I'm hoping this post can do ...
A practical guide to working with AI coding agents without the hype.
When renting x86 VMs in the cloud, you generally get a single (often shared) thread per vCPU. 1 core = 2 threads = 2 vCPUs. On the other hand, ARM64
My son, who is the violinist in our family, recently told me an interesting little fact about Augustin Hadelich, one of the greatest violinists alive: it’s hard for him to enjoy other people’s performances. Not because he’s critical or dismissive ...
Hiring great engineers is one of the most important—and difficult—parts of an engineering manager’s job. In this episode, we break down the full hiring journey.
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/523
When it comes to web typography, I’m a sucker for fluid type. I love that it creates a harmonious rhythm for the typography of a project. I love how it speeds up the responsive design process in the browser. And ...
One Thursday in May, I was sitting in a slightly delayed train, heading home from Düsseldorf after three days of meeting good friends and making new ones at beyond tellerrand, my friend Marc Thiele’s wonderful conference. As usual, after visiting ...
If a baby pigeon is found within 50 cubits of a coop, it is presumed to belong to the owner of that coop. If it is found further away than 50 cubits, it belongs to the finder. Ever keen to ...
(This is the blog post version of my keynote from EuroPython 2025 in Prague, Czechia.)We now have a lock file format specification. That might not sound like a big deal, but for me it took 4 years of active work ...
p:has(+ .quote) { margin-bottom: 0 } .quote p { margin-bottom: 2rem; font-size: calc(var(--fluid-2)); line-height: 1.25 }); In 1986 – when I was four years old – three researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) were working on an ...
I need to get back on the monthly routine because I’m squinting back at August like Uuuuuuuuuuh I vaguely remember it so anyway let’s see how this goes. Piglet by Lottie...
Have you ever wondered why new CSS features and other web technologies very often seem to just work across browsers these days? The reason is probably: Interop. The Interop Project is a collaborative effort between major browser makers — Apple, ...
Stripe has been one of my favorite third party dependencies for over 10 years. Despite this affection for it, however, I've recently decided to migrate over to another service, one that better suits my needs.
Sidero and Oxide Kubecon NA event registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oxidesidero-at-kubecon-north-america-2025-tickets-1538869282449Duffie has lived through a lot. From multiple startup exits to big company changes. He stays grounded by remembering where he came from and what's important—people. This episode is full of career and ...
Topics covered in this episode: Python 3.14 Free-threaded Python Library Compatibility Checker Claude Sonnet 4.5 Python 3.15 will get Explicit lazy imports Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/452
I’d provide readings in various aspects of medieval astrology. And I’d probably wind up with readings in various modern systems as well. For instance, although I’m not specifically a Jungian astrologer, I think that reading Jung is a very valuable ...
My journey through four phases of learning to work effectively with AI agents—from failed attempts at prompt engineering to discovering a process that actually delivers production-ready code.
Gregory Scott, founder of Kush Audio, shared an interesting insight about mixing music the other day: Sometimes, to bring something forward in the mix, instead of turning it up, it can be more effective to actually turn all the other ...
One of our missions at Pingoo (the fast and secure Load Balancer / API Gateway / Reverse Proxy with built-in service discovery, GeoIP, WAF, bot protection and much more) is
Like IntelliSense, but for shells!
For Blogtober, I dug up a draft about the two CSS pseudo-class functions :is() and :where() that I’d had lying around in my drafts folder for quite some time. Actually, when I originally started writing this post, :is() and :where() ...
