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A terminal first monitor configurator and daemon for Hyprland.
Social media was supposed to connect us, but most of it has turned into ads, division, and loneliness. I'm betting on ATProto as a way to fix that, and not just for developers. Whether you're a scientist, journalist, or just ...
\"Ingress NGINX was archived March 24, 2026. ing-switch maps all 119 NGINX annotations with
If your design system can only apply `loading=lazy` or `fetchpriority=high` blindly, it may be safer not to apply them at all.
Social media was supposed to connect us, but most of it has turned into ads, division, and loneliness. I'm betting on ATProto as a way to fix that, and not just for developers. Whether you're a scientist, journalist, or just ...
Topics covered in this episode: Lock the Ghost Fence for Sandboxing MALUS: Liberate Open Source Harden your GitHub Actions Workflows with zizmor, dependency pinning, and dependency cooldowns Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website ...
My sweater is weird but it is special and important to me.
Astral is joining OpenAI, which says a lot about where the center of gravity is moving for developer tools, LiteLLM got hit by a nasty supply-chain attack, and OpenCode blew up as the latest serious open source swing at the ...
I love my single-purpose devices, and I got another one for distraction-free writing called the BYOK!
Weekend articles should be lighter and fun. Not everything has to be an argument, a deep dive, or a small your average frustration disguised as an essay. Sometimes I just want to build a tiny piece of nonsense, the sort ...
A Python project got hacked where malicious releases were directly uploaded to PyPI. I said on Mastodon that had the project used trusted publishing with digital attestations, then people using a pylock.toml file would have noticed something odd was going ...
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/542
Growing up with James Bond, Alex Rider and Inspector gadget, I've naturally always been fascinated by gadgets that enable the hero to spy and fight the badies. Fast forward a
How I switched from Less to Sass to CSS Modules to PostCSS nested and nesting to finally, at last, using pure CSS.
A terminal music player inspired by winamp.
The question I asked myself (and the private Slack channel): is ensuring that I have a phone based approach to agentic coding while I’m on vacation healthy because I’m ensuring that I’m not on the computer, a phone is less ...
“You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. — Alvin Toffler” A rule (or boundary)...
“In my experience, React (et al) is almost always the wrong solution. React has its place, I’m sure, but it has turned into the proverbial hammer that makes everything look like a nail. I also know that React can be ...
Topics covered in this episode: Starlette 1.0.0 Astral to join OpenAI uv audit Fire and forget (or never) with Python’s asyncio Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/474
So, you are interested in getting started learning databases? I get a lot of emails from people asking me how they can begin to learn the vast world of databases, and whether they are far enough along on their programming ...
Dave Rupert just wrote a piece called People are not friction and I just had to write a short reaction blog post, because Dave names something I’ve been thinking about for a while now. His main argument: the AI marketing ...
The promise of Breaking Change is that with every major version (this being the 60th episode of the program, but only the 53rd such release), I will break something. Well, I finally did it. I think I broke the show. ...
The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect of AI is a pretty well documented phenomenon: The Gell-Mann amnesia effect is a cognitive bias describing the tendency of individuals to critically assess media reports in a domain they are knowledgeable about, yet continue to ...
claude -p is a quick hack that I find myself using more.
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Lies, damn lies, and read only filesystems
This is my annual list of DjangoCon US talks I’d like to see. I have been doing this since 2015, and it’s one of my favorite traditions. DjangoCon US 2026 is in Chicago this year, August 24-28. The CFP is ...
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/541
Update on using MacBook Neo for dev tasks: this is definitely a device you should to reboot daily, even without Chrome or any Electron apps. This morning, Zed (a native Rust app) was 500% CPU without a single window open, ...
I had to set up my Sony a6400 fresh, and here's all the settings I used!
I codified my job as a DX engineer into a system that dispatches agents, enforces conventions mechanically, and learns from its own failures. Here's how case works and why I think every developer should build something like it.
A silly story is easier to remember .octo-canvas-wrap { width: 100%; overflow-x: auto; overflow-y: hidden; -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; margin: 2rem 0; } .octopus-graph { width: 600px; height: 460px; position: relative; margin: 0 auto; border: 2px solid #000; background: #fff; overflow: hidden; ...
2 Ways to Correct the Financial Times at AWS (So Far) Amazon's Fastest-Shipping Product Is Now Blog Posts Correcting the Financial Times I've been watching AWS long enough to develop a feel for when a company's communications shift from "informing" ...
A TUI for visualizing Git repository statistics.
Some perspectives on approaching a rewrite of a software project.
Topics covered in this episode: chardet ,AI, and licensing refined-github pgdog: PostgreSQL connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder Agentic Engineering Patterns Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/473
I think I've finally understood why some people find value and love to tinker with AI assistants such as WhateverClaw while I find them (mostly) useless or even the idea
…symmetry isn’t just a preference for “pretty” shapes. Contents Introduction The HM-AM-GM-QM Inequality The two circles The Semicircle The Container The 3D container The Sum of Squares Inequality Nesbitt’s Inequality Conclusion Introduction While I was randomly browsing the web, I ...
Timberborn is very much my kind of game. Complex, cozy, climate change, water system design, beavers. (My friend Schuyler pointed out at one point that my preferred genre of game is “management sims”, and that perhaps I was little over ...
Clawspark provides a way to Install openclaw on your device in a secure way with a single command.
I first started compiling "How To Thought Lead" in my notes 5 years ago, at first as an ironic parody and then slowly becoming sincere, and never published it, 1) because I don't…
Understand everything about Nvidia DGX spark along with hands on and benchmarks.
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/540
I believe operations that change things should always return values.
Lately on X I have noticed a trend of posts that I imagine are probably the natural response to 'LinkedIn-brain' posts, which might be the result of the poor job market right now: "If hard work paid off, the donkey ...