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Floodfill algorithm in Python(opens in new tab)

Learn how to implement and use the floodfill algorithm in Python. import js root = js.document.documentElement computed = js.window.getComputedStyle(root) BG_COLOUR = computed.getPropertyValue("--bg").strip() FG_COLOUR = computed.getPropertyValue("--tx").strip() UI_COLOUR = computed.getPropertyValue("--ui").strip() AC_COLOUR = computed.getPropertyValue("--accent").strip() AC2_COLOUR = computed.getPropertyValue("--accent-2").strip() RE_COLOUR = computed.getPropertyValue("--re").strip() BL_COLOUR = computed.getPropertyValue("--bl").strip() ...

TIL #136 – Publish an EPUB book with Jupyter Book(opens in new tab)

Today I learned how to set the configurations of my Jupyter Book to build my book in the EPUB format. Publish an EPUB book with Jupyter Book I've been redoing my book Pydon'ts – Write elegant Python code in Jupyter ...

Serial Learning: The Most Respectable Developer Addiction(opens in new tab)

Why constant learning can feel productive but quietly erode our ability to think.

The Toad Report #3(opens in new tab)

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.

Only three kinds of AI products actually work(opens in new tab)

I tried to bring back T9. #3dprinting #raspberrypi #mechanicalkeyboard(opens in new tab)

Zine Making Workshops in 2025(opens in new tab)

Retreat to attack (Changelog & Friends #117)(opens in new tab)

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 ...

Inkwell Games(opens in new tab)

Inkwell Games bills itself as “Daily puzzles worth thinking about” and that’s a great tagline. Right now they offer two daily puzzles: Stars and Fields. Both are enjoyable but I rank Stars as a bit above Fields but as I ...

Clues by Sam(opens in new tab)

Clues By Sam is a daily puzzle game where you get to uncover a criminal conspiracy by following the clues… made by Sam… err… Johannes. It’s a little if-this-then-that logic puzzle where Pam implicates Bob as a criminal and because ...

Writing for AIs is a good way to reach more humans(opens in new tab)

📅 Office Hours for November(opens in new tab)

I’m hosting office hours on the next two Fridays in November. Office Hours Schedule Friday, November 14, 2025, 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm CT Starting at 2pm CT, I’ll be working on some community/open source projects if anyone wants to ...

Reviving T9 with a Handwired Mechanical Keyboard(opens in new tab)

La Rinconada, Peru(opens in new tab)

Above the clouds in the Peruvian Andes there is a town named La Rinconada. It holds the title of being the highest year-round settlement in the world. At one point swelling to 30,000 people, the population has dwindled some now ...

My new business + tech podcast(opens in new tab)

After reading1 the recent news about the unsurprising lack of diversity in podcasting — “64% of the hosts of the most popular US podcasts of 2024 were men…Shows with video...

Golden candlesticks(opens in new tab)

In high school I had the weird, cyclical circumstance of reading Arthur Miller’s The Crucible at least once a year at every grade level. Like Groundhog’s day but set in fictionalized 17th century Salem. While I appreciated the easy grade ...

Precious Plastic(opens in new tab)

The same people behind Project Kamp also run a project called Precious Plastic which is an open source plastic recycling platform. As most are well aware, plastic is a major problem polluting our land, our beaches, our rivers, our oceans, ...

Needy programs(opens in new tab)

We used to use software; now software started to use us

DO repeat yourself! (Changelog Interviews #666)(opens in new tab)

Prolific software blogger, Sean Goedecke, joins us to discuss why he believes software engineers need to be involved in the politics of their organization, how to avoid worry driven development, what is "good taste" in software engineering, where agentic coding ...

AI Has the Opposite Data Problem(opens in new tab)

[](/images/ai-data-problem-header.webp) We frequently hear that we have a data scarcity problem in AI. And when it comes to unique, Tolstoy-level literature and the like, that could be true. But in the business ...

Announcing DuckDB 1.4.2 LTS(opens in new tab)

Today we are releasing DuckDB 1.4.2, the second patch release of our LTS edition. The new release ships several bugfixes and performance optimizations. We also fixed vulnerabilities in DuckDB's database encryption, and introduced some (opt-in) logger/profiler features that help users ...

podliner(opens in new tab)

Podcasts in any terminal. Fast, clean, offline.

Ingress NGINX Retirement: What You Need to Know(opens in new tab)

To prioritize the safety and security of the ecosystem, Kubernetes SIG Network and the Security Response Committee are announcing the upcoming retirement of Ingress NGINX. Best-effort maintenance will continue until March 2026. Afterward, there will be no further releases, no ...

The academic-hobbyist divide in fish keeping(opens in new tab)

Reddit and other online sources of aquarium info are both vexing and all hobbyists really have access to. Reddit is dominated by a lot of people who just repeat “rules” with no concept of whether they have any validity or ...

Visiting Tokyo, Japan from November 12 to 24(opens in new tab)

Our first time in a new country!

A catalog of side effects(opens in new tab)

Optimizing compilers like to keep track of each IR instruction’s effects. An instruction’s effects vary wildly from having no effects at all, to writing a specific variable, to completely unknown (writing all state). This post can be thought of as ...

Hire Me in Japan(opens in new tab)

I'm looking for a new job.

This new AI role is exploding (Changelog News #169)(opens in new tab)

A new AI-led tech role has emerged with a massive increase of job postings, Corey Quinn explains why younger devs won't tolerate pain in the AWS, Thomas Ptacek makes the case that you should write an agent, Paul Kinlan goes ...

MCP Servers for Python Devs(opens in new tab)

Today we’re digging into the Model Context Protocol, or MCP. Think LSP for AI: build a small Python service once and your tools and data show up across editors and agents like VS Code, Claude Code, and more. My guest, ...

PETaflop cluster(opens in new tab)

AI is a pain in the back.

Announcing the 2025 Steering Committee Election Results(opens in new tab)

The 2025 Steering Committee Election is now complete. The Kubernetes Steering Committee consists of 7 seats, 4 of which were up for election in 2025. Incoming committee members serve a term of 2 years, and all members are elected by ...

A poem delivered by my 2.5 year old that encapsulates parenthood(opens in new tab)

My 2.5 year old Nadia told me some lovely sentiments as we walked today.

To get better at technical writing, lower your expectations(opens in new tab)

Outside sad is better than inside sad(opens in new tab)

I was feeling sad and overwhelmed and unmoored yesterday so after work I didn’t go to the gym or get groceries or any of the other things I should do. Instead I...

Notes #74(opens in new tab)

Du 11 octobre au 8 novembre 2025

Module compression overview(opens in new tab)

A high-level overview of how to use the module compression, new in Python 3.14. This article will teach you how to use the package compression, new in Python 3.14. You will learn how to compress and decompress data directly; write ...

#define: sheer resistance (Changelog & Friends #116)(opens in new tab)

On this seventh iteration of our award-worthy game show filled with obscure jargon, fake definitions, and expert tomfoolery: past winners battle to determine the champion of champions. (Also, Adam.)

The Impossible Triangle of LLM Infra(opens in new tab)

another talk I am giving at Mastra's TypeScript AI conf today https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NnQ3H5Bki3vWRRJdVXoCFJ5dsNKH9QrC-eEQ2Z8olck/edit?usp=sharing

Gateway API 1.4: New Features(opens in new tab)

Ready to rock your Kubernetes networking? The Kubernetes SIG Network community presented the General Availability (GA) release of Gateway API (v1.4.0)! Released on October 6, 2025, version 1.4.0 reinforces the path for modern, expressive, and extensible service networking in Kubernetes. ...

My journey leaving corporate America for consulting(opens in new tab)

A lot of people were surprised at my decision to leave the corporate world. I was at a great company, led an amazing team, and had just cleared some very significant hurdles on the product my team supported. When I ...

A Developer’s experience with weight loss injections(opens in new tab)

This is a personal account of my experiences taking weight loss medication. Quite a departure from my usual content.

Looking Forward with Tim Banks(opens in new tab)

Sidero and Oxide Kubecon NA event registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oxidesidero-at-kubecon-north-america-2025-tickets-1538869282449Tim Banks will optimize your modem baud rate and kick your ass—respectfully. Then they'll teach you how to be a better person. Their career includes systems, sales, and many other facets of business, ...

Now—November 2025(opens in new tab)

Six months later

I am back at work and it feels weird!(opens in new tab)

My maternity leave is over, I'm back at GitHub, and I'm ready to go. Kinda.

The world of open source metadata (Changelog Interviews #665)(opens in new tab)

Andrew Nesbitt builds tools and open datasets to support, sustain, and secure critical digital infrastructure. He's been exploring the world of open source metadata for over a decade. First with libraries.io and now with ecosyste.ms, which tracks over 12 million ...

Concert de Kery James à Lille(opens in new tab)

« On est pas condamné à l'échec »

Rust is eating the world: From embedded firmware to cross-platform applications, databases and big servers(opens in new tab)

Many reasonable people like to repeat the mantra "You should use the right tool for the job", but what if there was a single tool that enabled developers and organizations

Evaluating Fable’s pay-per-project offering(opens in new tab)

mcat(opens in new tab)

Parse, convert & preview images, videos & markdown in your terminal.

Death by a Thousand Pings(opens in new tab)

Attention isn’t infinite, and yet modern development culture behaves like it is. A quiet rebellion against meetings, pings, and performative productivity.