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One of the neat things about AWS is that it's almost twenty years old. One of the unfortunate things about AWS is... that it's almost twenty years old The post AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That’s ...
Risks of AI - Misinformation, power concentration, skill loss. The shift towards a bot-filled internet.
I had some misconceptions about this sneaky pseudo element.
A TUI file-sharing tool based on the LocalSend protocol.
Create a professional-looking stream brand with just a few key graphics.
Hi, my name is Peter and I'm a Claudoholic. A reflection on AI addiction, extreme work culture, and the blurry line between productivity and obsession in the age of agentic engineering.
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/516
It hit me like a lightning bolt during a casual conversation about AI safety: we’re tuning these models for adults, but kids are using them too.
In bug bounty hunting, having a short domain for XSS payloads can be the difference in exploiting a bug or not… and it’s just really cool to have a nice domain for payloads, LOL.
A thought experiment: how different would the web look if every service came with a price tag?
Discover the most representative low- and mid-tier mobile devices for web performance testing in 2025.
Topics covered in this episode: pyx - optimized backend for uv Litestar is worth a look Django remake migrations django-chronos Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/445
After following Laurie Kirk down a rabbit hole on subnormal numbers in the IEEE 754 float specification, I stumbled upon other interesting properties of floating-point numbers, specifically how NaNs (Not a Number) are represented in binary. After more than 10 ...
Out of all of the cli applications out there, few have really transformed the way I work in the terminal. However, there are some that have had a huge transformation, so much so that I thought it worthwhile to share ...
What is it like to ship software in big tech? Sean gives us his experience from multiple companies and what he’s learned. It's probably not what you think. It doesn't matter if you're vibe coding features or bash-ing devops, we ...
What is the type of 2 + 2 = 4?
A farewell to a fun 10 years.Also, I should have tested it better. :)In the audio I got the numbers wrong. Doh!This is episode 238, not 237. Oh well.I'll still be around, of course, at:pythontest.com - where I write about ...
A short explainer of New Net Art for the uninitiated!
An open review of workplace culture and patterns I've seen across the years.
Syncthing 2.0 was released last week, and I upgraded my Macs and my Intel NUC. I’m pleased with the performance. I never had complaints about it being slow, but the new app is much faster. I like that they’re using ...
Making Checkpointing fast Since I began working for turso officially in May of this year (relevant post), I had been spending most of my time learning the inner workings of the cloud platform, and familiarizing myself with the other codebases ...
A tool to crawl urls, scan endpoints, secrets, api keys, file extensions, tokens and more.
In this episode, Brian interviews Sebastián Ramírez, creator of FastAPI, about its rapid rise in developer popularity and the launch of FastAPI Cloud. Sebastian explains how FastAPI Cloud addresses deployment challenges small teams face. He shares his transition from open-source ...
As usual, I’m self-documenting a project while I work on it. Rustdesk is an open source remote control utility that caught my eye about a year ago; it’s cross platform and allows you to self-host your own “relay server” so ...
Topics covered in this episode: Coverage.py regex pragmas Python of Yore nox-uv A couple Django items Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/444
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/515
Due to the nature of my story and the attention that it's received, as mentioned in my last post, I frequently get emails from developers, college kids, or other people with troubled pasts that are looking for advice on either ...
There comes a time in every woman’s life when she only wants one thing: for her mininmal static site to finally have some of the same features that dynamic blogging platforms do, namely search. So now I’ve implemented search on ...
Today I came across Pieter Levels' post about “VibeOps,” a workflow that involves SSHing to a cheap VPS server and installing Claude Code directly on it. I’m running this setup on a cheap Hetzner box. While this approach might sound ...
For many developers senior is the quiet end of the road.
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
A CLI / TUI for aggregated patch reporting & system status monitoring via SSH.
Meet Poltergeist: an AI-friendly universal build watcher that auto-detects and rebuilds any project—Swift, Rust, Node.js, CMake, or anything else—the moment you save a file. Zero config, just haunting productivity.
On chatbot sycophancy, passivity, and the case for more intellectually challenging companions
Topics covered in this episode: rumdl - A Markdown Linter written in Rust Coverage 7.10.0: patch aioboto3 You might not need a Python class Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/443
My website was banned from Lobsters as 'startup slop' for using AI agents to help write blog posts. When does tool-assisted writing become slop, and why are we having the wrong conversation about AI in content creation?
Vibe code is legacy code by Steve Krouse
Fresh insights on AI-assisted development: practical experiences with Claude Code and the evolving landscape of full-breadth developers in the age of AI
“To dismiss this entire problem as a "skill issue" and imply all is good now because an external library solved an issue that React will allow you to do is very curious to me. [...] You would think you can ...
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in July 2025.
After Claude Pro changed to weekly limits, I explored self-hosting Qwen3-Coder-480B with 400k context windows. Here's what I learned about costs, alternatives, and why Claude Code still dominates the landscape.
A little bit of everything, from our appreciation of Linear and well implemented Command Palettes, to how we're coding with AI, to Git worktrees, etc.LinearStatamic 6 Sneak PeakOpencode.aiCursor Background AgentsGit WorktreesAndrej Karpathy's TalkFind us on X@campfirecoders / @austencam / @jesseleite85Email ...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the promotion of Malphas to Senior Vice President of Bad Decisions, effective immediately. In this expanded role, Malphas will oversee the company’s strategic initiatives in byzantine pricing models, confusing product nomenclature, and Generative AI. ...
