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Whether you are running online workshops, recording audio or video, or making music, it’s worth spending some time on acoustic treatment for your room. Shit in, shit out, as they say… In my case, I wanted to improve the sound ...
In the late 1960s, a young musician was recording the sounds he played on his synthesizer onto his Revox tape recorders, when he suddenly discovered: if you connect the two tape recorders together, so that the playback head is separated ...
Topics covered in this episode: PyPI+ uv-ship - a CLI-tool for shipping with uv How fast is 3.14? air - a new web framework built with FastAPI, Starlette, and Pydantic. Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode ...
I still remember that moment. Do You? For me, that was a moment I never thought I’d see. The leaders of the world, finding common ground – agreeing to limit global warming to 2°C, and aiming for 1.5°C. Everyone, finally, ...
A CLI tool to backup your databases, files to cloud storage.
p code { background: rgb(134 134 134 / 30%); border-radius: 4px; } One of the most amazing things about working on the Web is that you can have years of experience under your belt and there are still things you ...
AWS has done its quarterly housecleaning / "Googling" of its services, and deprecated what appears at first glance to be a startlingly long list. However, going through them put my mind at ease, and I'm hoping this post can do ...
A practical guide to working with AI coding agents without the hype.
My son, who is the violinist in our family, recently told me an interesting little fact about Augustin Hadelich, one of the greatest violinists alive: it’s hard for him to enjoy other people’s performances. Not because he’s critical or dismissive ...
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When it comes to web typography, I’m a sucker for fluid type. I love that it creates a harmonious rhythm for the typography of a project. I love how it speeds up the responsive design process in the browser. And ...
One Thursday in May, I was sitting in a slightly delayed train, heading home from Düsseldorf after three days of meeting good friends and making new ones at beyond tellerrand, my friend Marc Thiele’s wonderful conference. As usual, after visiting ...
If a baby pigeon is found within 50 cubits of a coop, it is presumed to belong to the owner of that coop. If it is found further away than 50 cubits, it belongs to the finder. Ever keen to ...
(This is the blog post version of my keynote from EuroPython 2025 in Prague, Czechia.)We now have a lock file format specification. That might not sound like a big deal, but for me it took 4 years of active work ...
p:has(+ .quote) { margin-bottom: 0 } .quote p { margin-bottom: 2rem; font-size: calc(var(--fluid-2)); line-height: 1.25 }); In 1986 – when I was four years old – three researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) were working on an ...
Have you ever wondered why new CSS features and other web technologies very often seem to just work across browsers these days? The reason is probably: Interop. The Interop Project is a collaborative effort between major browser makers — Apple, ...
Stripe has been one of my favorite third party dependencies for over 10 years. Despite this affection for it, however, I've recently decided to migrate over to another service, one that better suits my needs.
Sidero and Oxide Kubecon NA event registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oxidesidero-at-kubecon-north-america-2025-tickets-1538869282449Duffie has lived through a lot. From multiple startup exits to big company changes. He stays grounded by remembering where he came from and what's important—people. This episode is full of career and ...
I’d provide readings in various aspects of medieval astrology. And I’d probably wind up with readings in various modern systems as well. For instance, although I’m not specifically a Jungian astrologer, I think that reading Jung is a very valuable ...
Topics covered in this episode: Python 3.14 Free-threaded Python Library Compatibility Checker Claude Sonnet 4.5 Python 3.15 will get Explicit lazy imports Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/452
My journey through four phases of learning to work effectively with AI agents—from failed attempts at prompt engineering to discovering a process that actually delivers production-ready code.
Gregory Scott, founder of Kush Audio, shared an interesting insight about mixing music the other day: Sometimes, to bring something forward in the mix, instead of turning it up, it can be more effective to actually turn all the other ...
For Blogtober, I dug up a draft about the two CSS pseudo-class functions :is() and :where() that I’d had lying around in my drafts folder for quite some time. Actually, when I originally started writing this post, :is() and :where() ...
We’ve all been there: You write a bit of CSS, check whether everything looks right. You deploy. Then someone sends you a screenshot: the mobile navigation is broken. And why is the size of those headings just a bit off? ...
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Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs) are text-first, real-time multiplayer worlds that predate modern MMOs. In 2025, building a MUD might seem contrarian, but it’s exactly the kind of project that rewards strong engineering, clean contracts, and a relentless focus on player experience. ...
Jane Goodall, the scientist, conservationist, and educator who died last Wednesday at 91, will always be remembered for her singular, field-defining work on wild chimpanzees. She lived with wild chimpanzees to study them, befriended them, and made a groundbreaking discovery: ...
I checked out William Vincent’s The Secret Prompts in GitHub Copilot CLI tonight, and I wanted to share a few tips and what stood out to me. GitHub Copilot CLI uses Claude Sonnet 4.5 by default No luck other than ...
For a European with lots of friends and like-minded web folks in the US, it is both heartbreaking and bewildering to see how the political and societal climate in the country is changing right now. All of this is not ...
When the people at EMI ordered a bunch of Altec 436B compressors in the late 1950s for Abbey Road Studios, they were hoping for that legendary American sound they had heard at their sister studio Capitol Records in Los Angeles. ...
Why? Because it’s fun.
I have been pondering what use I could make of a typeface designed to emulate the little pixel text used on tiny, tiny displays or icons. This one kind of looks good enough to use as a code daily driver?? ...
Age quod agis. This Latin phrase, attributed to Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit Order, translates to “do what you are doing.” Do what you are doing. Like in: dedicate yourself wholeheartedly to whatever you engage in. Do ...
From handles to hosting.
It’s Blogtober again. And this time, I’ve (more or less spontaneously) decided to take part in it. For those of you who don’t know what it is: Blogtober is a writing challenge that takes part every Oktober (similar to Bloguary, ...
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in September 2025.
A field guide to what developers can control, what they can bend, and what they can only influence inside a larger organisation.
On the memorial page to my dog Heloïse that it’s intentional you can’t find from the top level of my website, the MIDI the gramophone plays – rollicking! piano! badly charted if we’re being honest at least as far as ...
There is hope if we do it together.
A short, external teardown that turns your team’s last retro into a roadmap for shipping faster.
Topics covered in this episode: PostgreSQL 18 Released Testing is better than DSA (Data Structures and Algorithms) Pyrefly in Cursor/PyCharm/VSCode/etc Playwright & pytest techniques that bring me joy Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the ...
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/521
How my Obsidian vault works after, a practical setup. Including bottom-up Zettelkasten notes, plugins, Bases and my general rules.
I walk by a Holzer installation as part of my commute, sometimes stop, pick a maxim for the day. It’s not so different from pulling a Tarot card or finding a line in a reading – except I’m lying, it ...
