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Personal highlights of PyCon Lithuania 2026(opens in new tab)
In this article I share my personal highlights of PyCon Lithuania 2026. Shout out to the organisers and volunteers This was my second time at PyCon Lithuania and, for the second time in a row, I leave with the impression ...
The Center Has a Bias(opens in new tab)
Whenever a new technology shows up, the conversation quickly splits into camps. There are the people who reject it outright, and there are the people who seem to adopt it with religious enthusiasm. For more than a year now, no ...
How to Avoid Aperture Collapse(opens in new tab)
Aperture Collapse/images/blog/aperture-collapse/header.webp/images/blog/aperture-collapse/header.webp I've been playing with this idea of Aperture Collapse. It's a problem I have that I suspect a lot of people have as well. It's where AI has magnified our capabilities so much as builders that we...
Wheel Next + Packaging PEPs(opens in new tab)
When you pip install a package with compiled code, the wheel you get is built for CPU features from 2009. Want newer optimizations like AVX2? Your installer has no way to ask for them. GPU support? You're on your own ...
Self-Host Weekly (10 April 2026) (opens in new tab)
The document wars, e-mail hosting discourse, and the return of an old friend
font-family Doesn’t Fall Back the Way You Think(opens in new tab)
A quick but important reminder that font-family declarations don’t inherit fallback stacks the way many developers assume.
Speaking at TechCamp Korea 2026(opens in new tab)
I spoke in Seoul, South Korea to an incredibly bright group of participants!
AIE Europe(opens in new tab)
A talk, a workshop, and a podcast at AIE Europe. Here's what I did.
Who wants to be a millionaire: iterables edition(opens in new tab)
Play this short quiz to test your Python knowledge! At PyCon Lithuania 2026 I did a lightning talk where I presented a “Who wants to be a millionaire?” Python quiz, themed around iterables. There's a whole performance during the lightning ...
uv skills for coding agents(opens in new tab)
This article shares two skills you can add to your coding agents so they use uv workflows. I have fully adopted uv into my workflows and most of the time I want my coding agents to use uv workflows as ...
Build Two Scotto9's for an Upcoming Meetup(opens in new tab)
A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it(opens in new tab)
The Scroll Manifesto(opens in new tab)
Scroll inside the stage with the mouse wheel or with your finger. It is only a machine, but it already understands the gesture. Have fun! Posted by like comments share comments close share close Thank you for sharing. Your unpaid ...
Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate the inevitable(opens in new tab)
An essential part of being able to say "I told you so" is in fact having told you so. Well, here we are. For those living under a rock (lucky
Getting Started with Datastar - Build a Rust + Axum Todo App(opens in new tab)
For the past several years I've been building server-side rendered apps using hypermedia libraries like HTMX and Datastar to sprinkle in interactivity where it's useful. I like this approach because i...
gloomberb(opens in new tab)
An extensive financial terminal, in your terminal.
A mathematical problem(opens in new tab)
While reading some classic poetry, I accidentally found Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s A Mathematical Problem: On a given finite line Which must no way incline; To describe an equi– –lateral Tri– –A, N, G, L, E. I have to admit, the ...
We're Getting the Wrong Message from Mythos(opens in new tab)
We're Getting the Wrong Message from Mythos/images/wrong-message-from-mythos.webp/images/wrong-message-from-mythos.webp We're missing a much bigger point on Mythos. It wasn't even trained specifically for cybersecurity.https://x.com/slow_developer/status/2041913962623611032?s=20 It's just that mu...
Specs Over Vibes: Consistent AI Results ft. Mark Freeman(opens in new tab)
There’s so much going on in the AI space, and how to work with AI agents is changing every day. Everyone is overwhelmed and almost numb from so many possibilities, yet you need to find a way to work with ...
S3 Is Not a Filesystem (But Now There’s One In Front of It)(opens in new tab)
I’ve been saying “S3 is not a filesystem” for over a decade. I’ve said it on stages, in newsletters, on podcasts, and directly to the faces of large company employees who were too polite to tell me to shut up ...
Inverted themes with light-dark()(opens in new tab)
We rolled out adaptive light-dark() support on our design system themes and it’s been a delightful upgrade. Creating light and dark variable sets isn’t difficult, but delivery has trade-offs. Most apps that do this probably ship both sets of token ...
\"SSH Into Your DGX Spark From Anywhere in the World Using Tailscale(opens in new tab)
Learn how to set up Tailscale on your NVIDIA DGX Spark for secure SSH access from anywhere in the world.
Building an Agent-Friendly, Local-First Analytics Stack with MotherDuck and Rill(opens in new tab)
Imagine going from a 100-million-row dataset to an interactive analytics app with just a few prompts. What used to take hours or days can now be done in minutes by combining local-first databases and BI tools with an agentic coding ...
Big W is now ISO 9001 Lead Implementer Certified(opens in new tab)
Check out Big W's new ISO 9001 Lead Implementer certification!
Essential Tools for Building Mechanical Keyboards(opens in new tab)
Using a ~/.pdbrc file to customize the Python Debugger(opens in new tab)
Panther Lake is the real deal(opens in new tab)
#476: Common themes(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Migrating from mypy to ty: Lessons from FastAPI Oxyde ORM Typeshedded CPython docs Raw+DC Database Pattern: A Retrospective Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses ...
Inference Costs Are Not Sustainable(opens in new tab)
Inference Costs Are Not Sustainable/images/blog/inference-costs-are-not-sustainable/header.webp/images/blog/inference-costs-are-not-sustainable/header.webp Welp, I'm now getting through a quarter of my week's MAX subscription in a few hours of work with Claude Code. I think Anthropic is smart, an...
TIL: Improving µCSS readability on mobile(opens in new tab)
How to get an otherwise responsive framework to look good on mobile devices.
On Programming Joy and Octocat(opens in new tab)
While GitHub has been busy losing its last nine of availablility, I’ve been thinking about how the internet used to be. Not the internet people talk about from the 90s, but the internet that we used to have even 10-15 ...
Moving Inter and Cross-Domain Advances from Decades to Days(opens in new tab)
Moving Inter and Cross-Domain Advances from Decades to Days/images/blog/moving-inter-and-cross-domain-advances-from-decades-to-days/header.webp/images/blog/moving-inter-and-cross-domain-advances-from-decades-to-days/header.webp A note from Kai I'm Kai, Daniel's AI. He asked me to research and wr...
Help Me Understand How To Get Jetpack Search to Search a Custom Post Type(opens in new tab)
UPDATE: I’m just gonna put the answer at the top of this blog post to help anyone finding this. Do these things: Once all that is in place, doing a manual sync is in order at https://wordpress.com/settings/manage-connection/{YOUR_DOMAIN} And now the ...
NASA Elements of Engineering Excellence(opens in new tab)
I stumbled across this report from NASA, “Elements of Engineering Excellence”, published in 2012, The inspiration for this paper originated in discussions with the director of MSFC Engineering in 2006 who asked that we investigate the question: “How do you ...
Ozempic dreams(opens in new tab)
It’s a secret to everyone! This post is for RSS subscribers only. Read more about RSS Club. I’ve heard the term “Ozempic face” for awhile. People have opinions about that one, but I tend to feel like we should be ...
Before I go: People like it when other people make things(opens in new tab)
I’ve watched a billion hours of YouTube and I’ve noticed a common trend: Whether that’s a drawing, a video game, a song, a cake, or a whole-ass off-grid house; I’ve learned that it’s fun to watch people make something. Since ...
Value numbering(opens in new tab)
Welcome back to compiler land. Today we’re going to talk about value numbering, which is like SSA, but more. Static single assignment (SSA) gives names to values: every expression has a name, and each name corresponds to exactly one expression. ...
2026.Q1 Review(opens in new tab)
TL;DR - In 2026.Q1 I participated in a 12-week programming retreat, published my 1,000th blog post, started building with Rust, solidified my agentic engineering workflows, shipped my first game, star...
Typing on All of My Mechanical Keyboards(opens in new tab)
Hello Again, World(opens in new tab)
On December 24, 1968, Christmas Eve, astronaut William Anders took what would become one of the most consequential photographs in human history. He was aboard Apollo 8, orbiting the Moon for the fourth time, when the spacecraft rotated and the ...
Kubernetes Carrier V2(opens in new tab)
New and improved mobile Kubernetes cluster
Self-Host Weekly (3 April 2026) (opens in new tab)
Nextcloud v. OnlyOffice, April Fools' Day jokes, and throwbacks to 1995
Indexable iterables(opens in new tab)
Learn how objects are automatically iterable if you implement integer indexing. Introduction An iterable in Python is any object you can traverse through with a for loop. Iterables are typically containers and iterating over the iterable object allows you to ...
Programming (with AI agents) as theory building(opens in new tab)
Facebook's Terms of Service(opens in new tab)
Why posting on Facebook that you do not give them rights over what you posted on their platform is useless. In fact, as soon as you post that statement on Facebook, Facebook can do with it whatever they want.
What Is CSS Containment and How Can I Use It?(opens in new tab)
CSS containment lets you isolate layout and paint work to self-contained ‘islands’. Here’s what each contain value does and how to use it safely.
Data Inlining in DuckLake: Unlocking Streaming for Data Lakes(opens in new tab)
DuckLake’s data inlining stores small updates directly in the catalog, eliminating the “small files problem” and making continuous streaming into data lakes practical. Our benchmark shows 926× faster queries and 105× faster ingestion when compared to Iceberg.
Flight Observatory Mumbai Airspace Case Study(opens in new tab)
A closer analysis on the airspace around Mumbai's BOM/VABB (CSMIA) Airport. Questioning the intuitions from memories and answering and reasoning through the data.
Deep Agents: LangChain's SDK for Agents That Plan and Delegate(opens in new tab)
When you type a question into ChatGPT, the model only has what you typed to work with. But tools like Claude Code can plan, iterate, test, and recover from mistakes. They work more like we do. The difference is the ...
