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The styles that defined Sailor Moon personal shrines and Cardcaptor Sakura LJ icon edits and so forth reached me before Animal Crossing (I was dropped out of college before meeting the latter) and are probably most formative in my sense ...
I don’t know how much we ought to trust this source but I’d definitely believed the included myths without any sources at all, so this may be of interest to others.
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/518
Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Toad Report, an irregular series where I document updates to Toad—my terminal interface for agentic coding and all things AI.
Obs.js is a tiny inline script that exposes network, battery, CPU, and memory signals to CSS and JavaScript so you can adapt to user context.
The ILC developed a database of tens of thousands of dissidents living in the Eastern Bloc and carefully targeted the books it sent. Paris became a critical hub where travelers could load up; the Librairie Polonaise, a venerable Polish bookshop, ...
How can you build a website using Obsidian? From markdown to web.
The new json/v2 package is looking to be quite interesting
Running multiple Docker containers can slow down your laptop and drain your battery. In this blog, we explore Docker Offload — a game-changing feature
A 6-week program for mid-career developers who feel stuck, coasting, or drifting. Stop autopiloting. Start steering.
Went fully back to Ghostty, VS Code on the side, and Claude Code as my main driver. Here's what actually works after months of experimentation.
Female velvet spiders exhibit a remarkable type of maternal care unique among arachnids. Upon the birth of her brood, the mother spider liquefies her internal organs and regurgitates this material as food. Once her capability to liquefy her insides is ...
Topics covered in this episode: pypistats.org was down, is now back, and there’s a CLI State of Python 2025 wrapt: A Python module for decorators, wrappers and monkey patching. pysentry Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode ...
What is it like to live in Macau? Working in a special administrative region of China, at the University of Macau.
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/517
Five essential perspectives that cut through AI hype: from developer evolution stages to junior learning crises, productivity reality checks, platform disruption, and MCP server pitfalls.
I’m hosting office hours on the next two Fridays in August. Office Hours Schedule Friday, August 22, 2025, 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm CT Friday, August 29, 2025, 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm CT Join Us These sessions are open ...
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.
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.
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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 ...
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
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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 ...
