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Blogtober 2025 - Day 1(opens in new tab)
It’s Blogtober again. And this time, I’ve (more or less spontaneously) decided to take part in it. For those of you who don’t know what it is: Blogtober is a writing challenge that takes part every Oktober (similar to Bloguary, ...
Shelter or prison(opens in new tab)
A mental model or set of values starts as a shelter from the unrelenting chaos of reality. We need these shelters. Living without them isn’t really possible. We can’t take...
Terminal Trove September 2025 Wrap Up(opens in new tab)
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in September 2025.
flowrs(opens in new tab)
A TUI application for Apache Airflow.
How Much Control Do Developers Really Have?(opens in new tab)
A field guide to what developers can control, what they can bend, and what they can only influence inside a larger organisation.
an internet of dogs (geocities)(opens in new tab)
On the memorial page to my dog Heloïse that it’s intentional you can’t find from the top level of my website, the MIDI the gramophone plays – rollicking! piano! badly charted if we’re being honest at least as far as ...
Retro Clarity Snapshot(opens in new tab)
A short, external teardown that turns your team’s last retro into a roadmap for shipping faster.
We all have a choice(opens in new tab)
There is hope if we do it together.
Building a Taliban-Proof Bridge: The Value of Understanding Stakeholder Needs to Create Lasting Change(opens in new tab)
I had the privilege of serving in 2/34th Infantry Brigade Combat Team in Afghanistan. We were the tip of the spear in implementation of the then new COIN counterinsurgency strategy, which was further symbolized by being the first brigade-sized element ...
#451: Databases are a Fad(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: PostgreSQL 18 Released Testing is better than DSA (Data Structures and Algorithms) Pyrefly in Cursor/PyCharm/VSCode/etc Playwright & pytest techniques that bring me joy Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the ...
Working With Product Managers and Stakeholders(opens in new tab)
Engineering managers sit at the intersection of tech, product, and people—which means collaboration is key. In this episode, we explore how to build strong working relationships with project managers and stakeholders.
Red Teaming LLMs and GenAI with PyRIT(opens in new tab)
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/521
Obsidian vault setup tour(opens in new tab)
How my Obsidian vault works after, a practical setup. Including bottom-up Zettelkasten notes, plugins, Bases and my general rules.
Understanding, not slop, is what’s interesting about LLMs(opens in new tab)
it was annoying to refind the text of jenny holzer’s truisms(opens in new tab)
I walk by a Holzer installation as part of my commute, sometimes stop, pick a maxim for the day. It’s not so different from pulling a Tarot card or finding a line in a reading – except I’m lying, it ...
Three fascinating Toad facts (the last one blew my mind)(opens in new tab)
Toads are frogs
I am 40(opens in new tab)
Letters from The Internet.
nihilism re: attention difficulties(opens in new tab)
The suspicion that all this is élite anxiety in the face of a democratizing mediascape deepens when you consider what the attentionistas want people to focus on. Generally, it’s fine art, old books, or untrammelled nature—as if they were running ...
Why do I love my Pika guestbook so fucking much? Let’s discuss.(opens in new tab)
This blog is on Pika. Part of having a Pika blog is having (if you want it) a guestbook. I have it, I want it, I fucking love it. I...
Calling someone a "nazi" is a permission slip for violence(opens in new tab)
⛔ I Do Not Want Discord's Nitro(opens in new tab)
I do not want Discord’s Nitro. I do not want it, friend or foe. I will not boost, I will not pay, I do not want it any day. I do not want it on my phone, I do not ...
AI Comprehension Gaps: When Humans and AI See Different Things(opens in new tab)
There’s an AI Security and Safety concept that I’m calling “AI Comprehension Gaps.” It’s a bit of a mouthful, but it’s an important concept. It’s when there’s a mismatch between what a user knows or sees and what an AI ...
lue(opens in new tab)
A TUI ebook reader with Text-to-Speech (TTS).
The Year in Agents - AI Engineer Paris(opens in new tab)
I gave a short address for the first AIE Paris conference organized by Koyeb!
annie mueller on rituals(opens in new tab)
Rituals? I can’t stop myself. They’re so good. Absolutely breathtaking. Humanity’s finest work, perhaps. They make no sense. It’s all about beauty, about made-up meaning, about art. Rituals add unnecessary, arbitrary extra requirements to a simple action. Light a candle ...
pyx - the other side of the uv coin (announcing pyx)(opens in new tab)
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/520
The great falls of Boeing, Intel, and Apple(opens in new tab)
#450: At-Cost Agentic IDE Tooling(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: pandas is getting pd.col expressions Cline, At-Cost Agentic IDE Tooling uv cheatsheet Ducky Network UI Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/450
Project Management As An Engineering Manager(opens in new tab)
As an engineering manager, project management isn’t just a skill—it’s part of the job. In this episode, we unpack what effective project management looks like from the EM seat.
The Glorious Pipe Operator(opens in new tab)
Let's talk about how how the functional pipe operator helps to simplify and improve code readability and composability, and how it contrasts with the fluent interface design pattern commonly used in OOP.
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Privacy Policy Effective date: September 22, 2025 The Cynical Developer (“we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and the choices you have. Information We Collect Personal information you provide: ...
graphic design for all the in-world advertised brands in mario kart(opens in new tab)
I think I’ve pointed to Elliott before. This video does itself to the point of absurdity. (Watching it, I found myself pretty sick of heavyweight fonts, somehow, but the graphic elements were largely far better than I’d’ve expected)
optimalism (parody)(opens in new tab)
This is all done by a Quirky Personal Site Haver (really: don’t miss the main site!) but this subsite is more pointed at a lot of content you’ve surely come across before:
Python’s True Superpower(opens in new tab)
Python appears to be everywhere nowadays! How did it happen, that a language that almost died in the Python 2 to 3 process is now the lingua franca a default choice when people talk about programming? There must be some ...
Data Science Cloud Lessons at Scale(opens in new tab)
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/519
Colocating Data with David Aronchick(opens in new tab)
David has worked on a lot of cool tech you know like Kubernetes and Kubeflow, and he's usually a few years ahead of the game. So getting to catch up with him about what he's working on now is probably ...
teach the history of history to defend it(opens in new tab)
In short, science classes pair a description of our best knowledge at the present with a story of discovery of how we came to know what we know now, with the clear implication that this method is how we will ...
lazyssh(opens in new tab)
A terminal-based SSH manager.
Coolify vs Dokploy: Why I decided to use one over the other(opens in new tab)
Coolify & Dokploy are two of the most popular open souce platforms as a service, but which one is right for you? Well, in order to answer that, I decided to put each one, head to head.
Big W: A Family Tradition(opens in new tab)
A quick look into where we came from and what inspires us to do what it takes to build a solid reputation.
Elixir for PHP Devs(opens in new tab)
Diving into Elixir has been a blast, and its functional paradigms are challenging the way I think about programming. Join me as I chronicle this journey from the perspective of a long-time OOP dev.
React Won by Default – And It's Killing Frontend Innovation(opens in new tab)
“When teams need a new frontend, the conversation rarely starts with “What are the constraints and which tool best fits them?” It often starts with “Let’s use React; everyone knows React.” That reflex creates a self-perpetuating cycle where network effects, ...
As I remember London(opens in new tab)
#449: Suggestive Trove Classifiers(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Mozilla’s Lifeline is Safe After Judge’s Google Antitrust Ruling troml - suggests or fills in trove classifiers for your projects pqrs: Command line tool for inspecting Parquet files Testing for Python 3.14 Extras Joke See ...
Your First 90 Days As An Engineering Manager(opens in new tab)
The first 90 days in any new role are crucial—but as a new engineering manager, they can make or break your trajectory. In this episode, we dive into how to approach your first three months with intention and clarity.
better via worse (easy phone tweaks)(opens in new tab)
If you make your phone interface more annoying to navigate, you use it less.
