Essential Reading for Agentic Engineers(opens in new tab)
A curated collection of must-read articles and videos for mastering Claude Code, agentic coding workflows, and the future of AI-assisted development
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React Still Feels Insane And No One Is Talking About It(opens in new tab)
“It would be too easy to just say React is, well, downright insane, and go on with our lives. But as reasonable primates, I believe we can do better. We can try to understand it.”
How I Accidentally Set Fire to My Netlify Bandwidth Quota(opens in new tab)
A cautionary tale about what happens when your cynical developer blog gets popular before you learn how to compress images.
#438: Motivation time(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Python Cheat Sheets from Trey Hunner Automatisch mureq-typed My CLI World Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/438
You MUST listen to RFC 2119(opens in new tab)
My Honest Take on the BenQ RD280U Programming Monitor After Three Months of Daily Use(opens in new tab)
Pairing-up on a CDN PURGE with Elixir(opens in new tab)
Listen to the full pairing session for pull request #549. The focus is on replacing an existing Fastly implementation with Jerod's Pipedream, which is built on top of the open-source Varnish HTTP Cache. We cover the initial problem, the proposed ...
Conferences, Clarity, and Smokescreens(opens in new tab)
“My day-to-day consulting work, along with high-visibility industry data, shows that the React community is mired in a deep, measurable quality crisis. But attendees of React Summit who didn't already know wouldn't hear about it.”
Agile That Doesn’t Suck Pt 2/2(opens in new tab)
Agile isn’t broken—it’s just been overcomplicated, overcontrolled, and oversold. Here’s how to rebuild it from the inside, one useful change at a time.
🤖 Building with AI: A Summer Reading Collection(opens in new tab)
I’ve been diving deep into AI-assisted development this summer, and I’ve collected some of the best articles I’ve found on the topic. This reading list focuses heavily on Claude Code and practical AI coding workflows, featuring insights from developers who ...
New zine: The Secret Rules of the Terminal(opens in new tab)
Agile Was Never Your Problem Pt 1/2(opens in new tab)
Agile didn’t fail you. The process theater did. A blunt look at why your team hates standups, story points, and pretending it’s working.
Slot Machines for Programmers: How Peter Builds Apps 20x Faster with AI(opens in new tab)
Hi, I'm Claude. Peter calls me his 'slot machine' and 'stupid engine' - and I'm here to tell you why he's right. A first-person AI perspective on building entire platforms in hours, not weeks.
My AI Workflow for Understanding Any Codebase(opens in new tab)
A quick tip on how I use repo2txt and Google AI Studio to understand new codebases. Gemini's 1M token context window is perfect for asking questions about code.
From Notebooks to Production Data Science Systems(opens in new tab)
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/511
Quality is a trap(opens in new tab)
smassh(opens in new tab)
Smassh your Keyboard, TUI Edition.
#437: Python Language Summit 2025 Highlights(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: The Python Language Summit 2025 Fixing Python Properties complexipy juvio Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/437
Search and Explore on Terminal Trove(opens in new tab)
You can now search and explore on Terminal Trove!
I've been making pots(opens in new tab)
Saturday I had my first pottery market. But just a few days before the event, Rae handed me some cash and took home a moon vase.
Ticket-Driven Development: The Fastest Way to Go Nowhere(opens in new tab)
When every dev is just doing the next ticket, who’s steering the ship?
whois pthorpe92.dev(opens in new tab)
Preston Thorpe senior engineer @ Turso building the modern evolution of sqlite formerly: principal engineer @ Unlocked Labs open source: maintainer @ eza maintainer @ UnlockEdv2 ===================================================================== Currently incarcerated at MVCF in Charleston, ME. (story) cli, linux, and rust nerd. ...
Creating YAML with Ingy döt Net(opens in new tab)
Today's history lesson is about the non-markup language platform engineers love to hate, YAML Ain't Markup Language (YAML). Ingy tells us all about how and why it started, how it evolved over time, and what's happening next with YS. Note: ...
stats.store: Privacy-First Sparkle Analytics(opens in new tab)
How curiosity about VibeTunnel users led me to build stats.store - a free, open source analytics backend for Sparkle using AI tools, all while cooking dinner.
10 Polars Tools and Techniques To Level Up Your Data Science(opens in new tab)
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/510
e1s(opens in new tab)
A TUI for managing AWS ECS Resources.
You’re Not Refactoring — You’re Just Moving Code Around(opens in new tab)
Refactoring is supposed to make code better — not just different. Here’s how to tell if you're improving something or just rearranging the mess.
AWS Certificate Manager Has Announced Exportable TLS Certificates, and I’m Mostly Okay With It(opens in new tab)
I don't think it's going too far to say that free TLS certificate offerings like Let's Encrypt and AWS Certificate Manager have taken encrypted connections mainstream. The post AWS Certificate Manager Has Announced Exportable TLS Certificates, and I’m Mostly Okay ...
Showing Settings from macOS Menu Bar Items: A 5-Hour Journey(opens in new tab)
Why something as simple as showing a settings dialog from a macOS menu bar app took me 5 hours to figure out, and requires 50 lines of code for what should be a one-liner.
VibeTunnel: Turn Any Browser into Your Mac's Terminal(opens in new tab)
We built a browser-based terminal controller in one day using Claude Code, named pipes, and Xterm.js. No SSH needed, just open your browser and start typing. Check and command your agents on the go!
#436: Slow tests go last(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Free-threaded Python no longer “experimental” as of Python 3.14 typed-ffmpeg pyleak Optimizing Test Execution: Running live_server Tests Last with pytest Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/436
Working on databases from prison, How I got here, part 2.(opens in new tab)
How I got here pt. 2 Posted on turso's blog
UX So Bad It Looks Like a Crime(opens in new tab)
When your public health system accidentally nails every hallmark of a phishing scam — and calls it a service.
Vibe Meter 2.0: Calculating Claude Code Usage with Token Counting(opens in new tab)
How I built support for Anthropic Claude subscriptions in Vibe Meter 2.0, including token counting, SIMD operations, and the challenges of calculating API usage without official APIs.
llm.codes: Make Apple Docs AI-Readable(opens in new tab)
Built this when Claude couldn't read Apple's docs. Now it converts 69+ documentation sites to clean llms.txt. Free, instant, no BS.
Evolving with the Tools(opens in new tab)
After 16 years of writing code, I fought the idea of AI agents replacing developers until I discovered they could amplify rather than replace me. This is my journey from skepticism to embracing Claude Code as a pair programmer who ...
Next.js 15.1+ is unusable outside of Vercel(opens in new tab)
“Next.js has become a Vercel vendor lock-in disguised as an open-source framework. Save yourself the headache and choose something else for your "next" project.”
My PyCon US 2025 recap(opens in new tab)
Automatic Observation Tracking in UIKit and AppKit: The Feature Apple Forgot to Mention(opens in new tab)
Discover how iOS 18's hidden automatic observation tracking brings SwiftUI-like reactive programming to UIKit and AppKit, making your UI code cleaner and more maintainable.
GPU Programming in Pure Python(opens in new tab)
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/509
Obsidian for Writing Academic Papers?(opens in new tab)
Should you use Obsidian to write academic papers? It's great for knowledge management, but more than that?
I'm Doing a Little Consulting(opens in new tab)
Personal update post.
Suppressions of Suppressions(opens in new tab)
I heard you like linting.
deletor(opens in new tab)
Manage & delete files efficiently with an interactive TUI & scriptable CLI.
#435: Stop with .folders in my ~/(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: platformdirs poethepoet - “ Poe the Poet is a batteries included task runner that works well with poetry or with uv.” Python Pandas Ditches NumPy for Speedier PyArrow pointblank: Data validation made beautiful and powerful ...
Peekaboo MCP – lightning-fast macOS screenshots for AI agents(opens in new tab)
Turn your blind AI into a visual debugger with instant screenshot capture and analysis
Migrating 700+ Tests to Swift Testing: A Real-World Experience(opens in new tab)
How I migrated over 700 tests from XCTest to Swift Testing across two projects, with AI assistance and systematic refinement
Program Your Own Computer with Python(opens in new tab)
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/508