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“If your well-being matters to you, be your own savior while you can. — Marcus Aurelius” What we learn as children programs us in certain ways. These programs run subconsciously....
Through my 4 (!) podcasts I obviously have built up a lot of opinions on podcasting over the years. Here's some of them. The two outlier podcasts of our time are Dwarkesh and…
This is a short and sweet way to get feedback on your work in a specific, helpful way!
Any future perfectly known, said Alan Watts, is already the past. But life is not in the past. Life is now, life is here, life is this moment. The only...
Nick Nisi joins us to dig into the latest trends from this year and how they're impacting his day-to-day coding and Vision Pro wearing. Anthropic's acquisition of Bun, the evolving JavaScript and AI landscape, GitHub's challenges and the Amp/Sourcegraph split. ...
Our very brains, our human nature, our desire for comfort, our habits, our social structures, all of it, pushes us into being fish bowl swimmers. Tiny people moving in tiny...
An old feature request on a repo has me in my feelings!
Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels, stops by to help us explore his tech predictions for 2026 and beyond. Will companionship be redefined by consumer robots? Will quantum-safe become the only safe worth talking about? Is this the dawn of the renaissance ...
A TUI and CLI for exploring the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS).
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/529
“On November 29th, Lachlan Davidson reported a security vulnerability in React that allows unauthenticated remote code execution [...] This vulnerability was disclosed as CVE-2025-55182 and is rated CVSS 10.0.”
Matheus Lima on what makes senior developers actually senior, Tega Brain created a browser extension for avoiding AI slop, Andrew Kelley moves Zig from GitHub to Codeberg, Matias Heikkilä says there's no free lunch for vibe coding, and your SSD ...
Topics covered in this episode: Advent of Code starts today Django 6 is coming Advanced, Overlooked Python Typing codespell Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/460
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in November 2025.
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/528
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Our old friend Lars Wikman returns to the show to discuss Linux distro hopping, Elixir, Nerves, embedded systems, home automation with Home Assistant, karate, and more.
After years of complaints, AWS Compute Optimizer can identify idle NAT Gateways. At $35/month each plus data processing fees, finding unused gateways just got dramatically easier. The post AWS Finally Lets You Find Your Idle NAT Gateways appeared first on ...
Let's hear how Wikipedia actually works from long-time Wikipedian, Bill Beutler! Bill has been heavily involved with this "8th wonder of the modern world" for two decades and even built a career on it, founding Beutler Ink –a digital agency ...
“By default, you get the dreaded hydration pattern—do all the computing on the server in JavaScript (yay!), serve up HTML straight away (yay! yay!) …and then serve up all the same JavaScript that’s on the server anyway (ya—wait, what?).”
A simple & powerful eBPF-based network issue, analysis and tracing tool.
I've cracked the code on breaking the eternal cycle - features win, tech debt piles up, codebase becomes 'legacy', and an eventual rewrite. Using coding agents at GitHub, I now merge multiple tech debt PRs weekly while still delivering features. ...
The BenQ coding monitor does come with one major downside, but it (surprisingly) became my primary monitor as soon as I unboxed it.
Cedric Chin says comparisons of our current AI *maybe-bubble* to the dot-com bubble and the 2008 GFC are limiting, Matthew Prince does a post-mortem on last week's Cloudflare outage, "hl" is a fast / powerful log viewer for humans, Enthusiast ...
Topics covered in this episode: PEP 814 – Add frozendict built-in type From Material for MkDocs to Zensical Tach Some Python Speedups in 3.15 and 3.16 Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at ...
I've cracked the code on breaking the eternal cycle - features win, tech debt piles up, codebase becomes 'legacy', and an eventual rewrite. Using coding agents at GitHub, I now merge multiple tech debt PRs weekly while still delivering features. ...
I’ve been fighting a runaway OpenAI bill for the last few weeks. I was worried I was leaking one of my API keys in a non-obvious way, possibly in one of my public projects. Two weeks ago, I deleted all ...
An n8n automation workflow that generates daily standup updates by pulling data from Jira, Slack, and GitHub to solve the memory problem.
I want to be upfront that this blog post is for me to write down some thoughts that I have on the idea of rewriting the Python Launcher for Unix from Rust to pure Python. This blog post is not ...
I am not sure that there exists a group of bigger SQLite nerds than those of us at Turso. We use SQLite for everything.. Including for OLAP workloads where we should be using duckdb, or for services which we would ...
Practical AI co-host, Chris Benson, joins us to discuss the latest advancements in AI, drones, home automation, and robotic swarming tech. Chris defines "swarm" with detail/precision and it turns out that what most people are calling a swarm today is ...
I was writing some code where I was using httpx.get() and its params parameter. I decided to use a TypedDict for the dictionary I was passing as the argument since it was for a REST API, where the potential keys ...
So, picture this: you’re working at a walking desk, you’ve got a cool voice-to-text tool like MacWhisper running, and you want to control it all with just a couple of dedicated keys. That was the dream that led me to ...
Spencer Chang caught our attention with the alive internet theory website, but he creates all kinds of computery things to bring people together around play, connection, and creation. Spencer's experiments with computing-infused objects inspired him to create an entire line ...
A git commit history replay tool for the terminal.
Nilo Stolte explains why Zig is "a totally new way to write programs", George Mack gives twelve actionable ways to be more creative, Mario Zechner shares his findings on using MCP vs Bash tools, Josh Collinsworth compares creating AI art ...
Topics covered in this episode: Possibility of a new website for Django aiosqlitepool deptry browsr Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/458
Welcome to the third issue of the Toad Report. If you are new here, Toad is a universal interface for API I am currently building.
Why constant learning can feel productive but quietly erode our ability to think.
Do you like director's commentaries and extended cuts? This episode is like that, but for this week's News. We go deep on the alive internet theory, Meshtastic mesh networks, Zstandard compression, the FDE job explosion, React's seemingly perpetual dominance, and ...
