End of Year Reflections(opens in new tab)
A quiet end-of-year reflection on contracts, community, delivery, and heading into uncertainty with cautious optimism.
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Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal(opens in new tab)
My startup for terminals wrapped up mid-2025 when the funding ran dry. So I don’t have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career convincing terminals ...
Secure your Rust projects against supply chain attacks with Dev Containers(opens in new tab)
Another day, another successful supply chain attack that could have been easily mitigated with basic measures. As I've previously written many times, supply chain attacks are low effort / big
Things I would study more if I had time(opens in new tab)
There's so much I want to learn and so little time in the day!
superseedr(opens in new tab)
A BitTorrent client in your terminal.
The O'Saasy License(opens in new tab)
Coming up with blog topics(opens in new tab)
Here's a few questions I ask myself before I start blogging.
The code, prose & pods that shaped 2025 (Changelog News #174)(opens in new tab)
This episodes diverges from our traditional fare. I’ve reviewed the 49 previous editions and picked (IMHO) the coolest code, best prose & my favorite podcast episode from each month!
Objecting to storage(opens in new tab)
Thank you NoPorts for sponsoringhttps://fafo.fm/noportsIf the Internet is a big computer, Amazon s3 is the hard drive. So what happens when a single typo breaks the Internet's hard drive? On this episode of Fork Around and Find Out we review ...
#462: LinkedIn Cringe(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Deprecations via warnings docs PyAtlas: interactive map of the top 10,000 Python packages on PyPI. Buckaroo Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/462
Making sense of the video formats / codecs / containers mess (and what to use for long-term video archival)(opens in new tab)
I was wondering why sone .mkv videos can be played in web browsers, why some others can't and what would be the best format to archive videos. This led me
Influencing without authority(opens in new tab)
You can be a leader without a fancy title... and hopefully that gets you the fancy title eventually!
Statistics made simple(opens in new tab)
Announcing a simple statistics library for Clojure web servers
Do you want to read a detailed post about eyelid surgery? Here it is. With photos.(opens in new tab)
I find this sort of thing fascinating. I looked for detailed info before my own surgery because I like to know what I’m getting into. If you’re grossed out by...
Trying out Ente for media backup(opens in new tab)
I'm backing up my photos and videos with Ente now, and it's pretty good.
anywidget: Jupyter Widgets made easy(opens in new tab)
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/530
Vibe coding is boring(opens in new tab)
Vibe coding gets the job done, but there's no thrill in the build.
Down the Linux rabbit hole (Changelog & Friends #121)(opens in new tab)
Alex Kretzschmar joins Adam for a trip down the Linux rabbit hole -- Docker vs Podman, building a Kubernetes cluster, ZFS backups with zfs.rent, bootc, favorite Linux distros, new homelab tools built with AI, self-hosting Immich, content creation, Plex and ...
Telling myself stories(opens in new tab)
To tell the story of your life would take another life of equal length. There is no such thing as a true story because every story, to be told, must...
Podcasts I'm listening to in 2025(opens in new tab)
I don't listen to many podcasts, but the ones I do are pretty solid!
🤖 Trying Out GLM with Claude Code(opens in new tab)
My friend Trey Hunner showed me the GLM set of models before Thanksgiving. While traveling to see family, I somehow messed up my Claude Code setup because of a wrapper I have with mise-en-place. I couldn’t use it for a ...
The Abilene Paradox(opens in new tab)
What happens when you compromise too much?
Autonomous drone delivery in a Zip (Changelog Interviews #670)(opens in new tab)
We're joined by Zipline cofounder / CTO, Keenan Wyrobek. Zipline is on a mission to build the world’s first logistics system that serves all people equally via their fleet of autonomous drones that started in Africa delivering medical supplies and ...
Gratitude knows that there is always a gift(opens in new tab)
Whatever it is, let me start it with gratitude. Gratitude is fertile ground. Put in the seeds of your dreams and desires. Keep the ground watered and pull the weeds....
Firecracker deep dive: How Rust and microVMs are revolutionizing cloud infrastructure(opens in new tab)
The microVM revolution
Food I recommend in Chicago in 2025(opens in new tab)
If you wanna eat more than a hot dog and deep dish pizza when you visit Chicago, I got you!
qo(opens in new tab)
An interactive minimalist TUI to query JSON, CSV, and TSV using SQL.
Europe is weak and delusional (but not doomed)(opens in new tab)
#461: This episdoe has a typo(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: PEP 798: Unpacking in Comprehensions Pandas 3.0.0rc0 typos A couple testing topics Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/461
Encryption protects AGAINST criminals(opens in new tab)
There is this weird framing floating in the media that encryption is used by criminals to commit their misdeeds and hide in the shadows. As is too often with mainstream
Pausing a CSS animation with getAnimations()(opens in new tab)
When your CSS animations need a break, you can work with the output of the getAnimations() method!
All good things must come to an end(opens in new tab)
I guess this time the game really does stop, when the stream ends.
The "confident idiot" problem (Changelog News #173)(opens in new tab)
Why AI needs hard rules (not vibe checks), what Anthropic's acquisition of Bun's creators tells us about the AI takeover, Jonah Glover couldn't get Claude to recreate Space Jam's 1996 website, Google finally unkills something, and Bazzite is a distro ...
Notes on building CRDT-based local-first and end-to-end encrypted applications(opens in new tab)
Local-first vs Offline-first Found this article, from a great series about local-first applications: Local-first is not offline-first. TL;DR: local-first = the source of truth is the local state stored on
Sewing an e-reader case(opens in new tab)
I made a simple case for an e-reader as my first sewing project in a long time!
Very Important Agents(opens in new tab)
My recent Changelog and Friends podcast appearance and the Claude Code plugins that help me get real work done with AI.
All feelings mean something but it might be something dumb(opens in new tab)
“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....
How To Podcast(opens in new tab)
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 TBPN, and I will explain my mental ...
The ABCD framework for feedback(opens in new tab)
This is a short and sweet way to get feedback on your work in a specific, helpful way!
Dishonesty is a rejection of life(opens in new tab)
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...
Lasagna and a root beer float(opens in new tab)
What is the food and drink that represents you?
Very important agents (Changelog & Friends #120)(opens in new tab)
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. ...
Fish bowl(opens in new tab)
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...
Goodbye to an 11-year-old Issue(opens in new tab)
An old feature request on a repo has me in my feelings!
Werner Vogels predicts the future (Changelog Interviews #669)(opens in new tab)
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 ...
No more tokens! Locking down npm Publish Workflows(opens in new tab)
The what, how, and why of CSS clamp()(opens in new tab)
The CSS clamp() function is a clean way to make your apps and sites responsive. Here's how!
oeis-tui(opens in new tab)
A TUI and CLI for exploring the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS).
Build the thing you wish to see in the world(opens in new tab)
For most of my career, I've been confusing building products with building businesses—and that confusion kept me from pursuing a lot of ideas. Two weeks off helped me realize that not everything needs to be a startup, and some of ...
Fizzy is our fun, modern take on Kanban (and we made it open source!)(opens in new tab)
