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What exactly is engineering management, and why is it such a crucial role in tech organizations? In this episode, we break down the basics of engineering management—what it is, what it isn’t, and how it bridges the gap between technical ...
This is a review of a manifesto associated with a learning program.
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A few years ago, I wrote a paper on embeddings. At the time, I wrote that 200-300 dimension embeddings were fairly common in industry, and that adding more dimensions during training would create diminishing returns for the effectiveness of your ...
Du 27 août au 1er septembre 2025
The styles that defined Sailor Moon personal shrines and Cardcaptor Sakura LJ icon edits and so forth reached me before Animal Crossing (I was dropped out of college before meeting the latter) and are probably most formative in my sense ...
Quick presentation of tldr
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[](/images/banes-voice.png) Bane during the famous underground fight scene (click for full size) Not my normal type of content, obviously, but there's a particular line in a movie that got me extremely interested in voices! I've ...
Anything can be anything! Until the next game starts, of course.
With the release of Kubernetes 1.34, a new alpha feature is introduced that gives you more granular control over container restarts within a Pod. This feature, named Container Restart Policy and Rules, allows you to specify a restart policy for ...
I don’t know how much we ought to trust this source but I’d definitely believed the included myths without any sources at all, so this may be of interest to others.
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/518
Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Toad Report, an irregular series where I document updates to Toad—my terminal interface for agentic coding and all things AI.
The ILC developed a database of tens of thousands of dissidents living in the Eastern Bloc and carefully targeted the books it sent. Paris became a critical hub where travelers could load up; the Librairie Polonaise, a venerable Polish bookshop, ...
Now that software is running the world, there are very few things that are more frustrating and productivity-killing than being limited by a piece of software, either because the maker
I love a habit. I adore a routine. Doing things in a certain order, or certain time, or certain way. Over and over. I love the dependability. I love the resonance, the echo, the beat. I love the surprising power. ...
A viewer for Microsoft Word .docx files in the terminal.
How can you build a website using Obsidian? From markdown to web.
The new json/v2 package is looking to be quite interesting
A 6-week program for mid-career developers who feel stuck, coasting, or drifting. Stop autopiloting. Start steering.
Du 17 au 26 août 2025
[](/images/mcp-trust-implied-new.webp) I've been thinking about Model Context Protocols (MCPs) since they came out, but I couldn't quite pin down the perfect, concise explanation f...
Went fully back to Ghostty, VS Code on the side, and Claude Code as my main driver. Here's what actually works after months of experimentation.
Female velvet spiders exhibit a remarkable type of maternal care unique among arachnids. Upon the birth of her brood, the mother spider liquefies her internal organs and regurgitates this material as food. Once her capability to liquefy her insides is ...
In my last post, I explained a bit about how to retrofit SSA onto the original linear scan algorithm. I went over all of the details for how to go from low-level IR to register assignments—liveness analysis, scheduling, building intervals, ...
What is it like to live in Macau? Working in a special administrative region of China, at the University of Macau.
There are a lot of support needs in life. That's great. We all need and help each other. What's not great is when the support needs turn you into support staff. The needs take all your time. They come first ...
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/517
Five essential perspectives that cut through AI hype: from developer evolution stages to junior learning crises, productivity reality checks, platform disruption, and MCP server pitfalls.
I’m hosting office hours on the next two Fridays in August. Office Hours Schedule Friday, August 22, 2025, 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm CT Friday, August 29, 2025, 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm CT Join Us These sessions are open ...
I built Ductts, an app for tracking how often you cry. Here's how!
One of the neat things about AWS is that it's almost twenty years old. One of the unfortunate things about AWS is... that it's almost twenty years old The post AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That’s ...
Risks of AI - Misinformation, power concentration, skill loss. The shift towards a bot-filled internet.
I had some misconceptions about this sneaky pseudo element.
A TUI file-sharing tool based on the LocalSend protocol.
Create a professional-looking stream brand with just a few key graphics.
Hi, my name is Peter and I'm a Claudoholic. A reflection on AI addiction, extreme work culture, and the blurry line between productivity and obsession in the age of agentic engineering.
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It hit me like a lightning bolt during a casual conversation about AI safety: we’re tuning these models for adults, but kids are using them too.
In bug bounty hunting, having a short domain for XSS payloads can be the difference in exploiting a bug or not… and it’s just really cool to have a nice domain for payloads, LOL.
A thought experiment: how different would the web look if every service came with a price tag?
[](/images/creativity-limitation.png) I just wrote [a new piece about the two primary limitations to creativity](/blog/two-creativity-barriers). You should check it out. But after finishing it I realized there was a third...
