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How CRDTs and Rust are revolutionizing distributed systems and local-first applications(opens in new tab)
There are, I believe, very few technologies that are like CRDTs, Conflict-free Replicated Data Types: very easy to use, very powerful and yet not much known, so we don't see
Fix your upgrades and migrations with Codemods(opens in new tab)
Codemods, or code modification tools, are automated scripts to help transform code to match newer, updated systems. They're handy!
Critical Security Vulnerability in React Server Components(opens in new tab)
“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.”
Change commit timestamps in Git(opens in new tab)
Sometimes you might need to change when a commit happened. Here's how!
What actually makes you senior (Changelog News #172)(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Automatically mark pull requests and issues as stale with GitHub Actions(opens in new tab)
Sometimes things get old and unmaintained. Don't we all? But we can fix that in your projects!
Six billion reasons to cheer for Shopify(opens in new tab)
#460: Overlooked Python Typing(opens in new tab)
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
Terminal Trove November 2025 Wrap Up (opens in new tab)
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in November 2025.
I ranted about frontend build steps at MagnoliaConf 2025(opens in new tab)
Python apps with LLM building blocks(opens in new tab)
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Thank you for joining my e-mail newsletter(opens in new tab)
Thank you for joining my e-mail newsletter. Why I'm grateful to have you here.
A pretty good email scam(opens in new tab)
How I helped family recover from a clever email scam that hid behind sneaky account settings
The 4 DIMM problem (Changelog & Friends #119)(opens in new tab)
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.
AWS Finally Lets You Find Your Idle NAT Gateways(opens in new tab)
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 ...
The inner workings of Wikipedia (Changelog Interviews #668)(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Why use React?(opens in new tab)
“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?).”
kyanos(opens in new tab)
A simple & powerful eBPF-based network issue, analysis and tracing tool.
How to get hired in 2025(opens in new tab)
A collection of red flags in software engineers' test assignments
Happy Thanksgiving from Big W!(opens in new tab)
With Thanksgiving upon us I’m reminded that 2025 is quickly coming to a close. As you look ahead to 2026 I hope you consider Big W Engineering Solutions to help you scale up, expand your capabilities, or overcome tough challenges. ...
Local LLMs are how nerds now justify a big computer they don't need(opens in new tab)
I no longer block AI bots on my website(opens in new tab)
It's now a common pass time for bloggers, content publishers and website administrators to share their best tips and trick on how to best block scraping bots. I've also spent
A Software Engineer's Guide to Agentic Software Development(opens in new tab)
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. ...
Is the BenQ coding monitor any good?(opens in new tab)
The BenQ coding monitor does come with one major downside, but it (surprisingly) became my primary monitor as soon as I unboxed it.
What is a tech bubble anyway? (Changelog News #171)(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Python Black Friday & Cyber Monday sales (2025)(opens in new tab)
No backup, no cry(opens in new tab)
#459: Inverted dependency trees(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Prompt Injection Isn’t a Vulnerability(opens in new tab)
OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. It can be a vulnerability. But it’s almost never the root cause.
🤖 How I Accidentally Spent Over 62 Million OpenAI Tokens(opens in new tab)
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 ...
How reducers work(opens in new tab)
I did a livestream about how reducers work, and now, I give it to you.
I may have just broken standup (using n8n)(opens in new tab)
An n8n automation workflow that generates daily standup updates by pulling data from Jira, Slack, and GitHub to solve the memory problem.
Should I rewrite the Python Launcher for Unix in Python?(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Rewriting SQLite: Adding a new join algorithm(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Python Morsels Lifetime Access Sale(opens in new tab)
NOT a swarm! (Changelog & Friends #118)(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Entrepreneurs and athletes(opens in new tab)
Entrepreneurs and athletes are all the same: they find the red zone and stay there until they win... or die of exhaustion. Actually, many entrepreneurs are also athletes, as if
The varying strictness of TypedDict(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Like solar, Rust is inevitable(opens in new tab)
Proofreading yesterday's analysis of Rust usage at Cloudflare made me put words on a deep feeling that I have since long time, as this blog can attest. Rust is not
The "Vibe Coding Keyboard" How I Made My Walk-and-Talk Setup Even More Awesome(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Creating communal computers (Changelog Interviews #667)(opens in new tab)
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 ...
gitlogue(opens in new tab)
A git commit history replay tool for the terminal.
Why is Zig so cool? (Changelog News #170)(opens in new tab)
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 ...
#458: I will install Linux on your computer(opens in new tab)
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
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.
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 ...