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Iâm 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, Iâll be working on some community/open source projects if anyone wants to ...
After reading1 the recent news about the unsurprising lack of diversity in podcasting â â64% of the hosts of the most popular US podcasts of 2024 were menâŚShows with video...
We used to use software; now software started to use us
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 ...
Podcasts in any terminal. Fast, clean, offline.
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 ârulesâ with no concept of whether they have any validity or ...
Topics covered in this episode: httptap 10 Smart Performance Hacks For Faster Python Code FastRTC Explore Python dependencies with pipdeptree and uv pip tree Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/457
I'm looking for a new job.
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 ...
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/527
AI is a pain in the back.
I was feeling sad and overwhelmed and unmoored yesterday so after work I didnât go to the gym or get groceries or any of the other things I should do. Instead I...
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.)
another talk I am giving at Mastra's TypeScript AI conf today https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NnQ3H5Bki3vWRRJdVXoCFJ5dsNKH9QrC-eEQ2Z8olck/edit?usp=sharing
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 ...
This is a personal account of my experiences taking weight loss medication. Quite a departure from my usual content.
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 assârespectfully. Then they'll teach you how to be a better person. Their career includes systems, sales, and many other facets of business, ...
Six months later
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 ...
Parse, convert & preview images, videos & markdown in your terminal.
Attention isnât infinite, and yet modern development culture behaves like it is. A quiet rebellion against meetings, pings, and performative productivity.
All systems have rules. Understanding and applying the rules well is different than memorizing and obeying the rules perfectly. âToo much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in...
Topics covered in this episode: The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program A Binary Serializer for Pydantic Models T-strings: Python's Fifth String Formatting Technique? Cronboard Extras Joke See the full show notes for this ...
Solving the One Thing That Keeps Me Up at Night in Software Development One of the only real things in software development that keeps me up at night is...
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/526
Have you ever played Duck Duck Goose1 and the person whoâs it keeps walking and walking and walking and walking around and never picks the goose? Itâs really boring. There...
Welcome to the second issue of The Toad Report. If you are new here, Toad is a universal interface for AI I am currently building.
Using the superuser elastic API keys to access the Elasticsearch API is not recommended. The API key is often used by remote clients on remote systems. Any attacker who might get access to the token, can compromise the entire Elasticsearch ...
If there is one thing that Iâve learned in my roughly 30 years of working with design tools, it is that they come and go and that you should always stay curious and be open and ready to learn something ...
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in October 2025.
It is now Anno Domini 2025, and for some reason, people keep trusting email. That needs to stop. Letâs talk about whyâbut first, letâs talk about why Iâm telling you this now. All things happen in cycles, including grifting. And ...
Here are my Default Apps 2025, which builds from my Default Apps 2024 and Default Apps 2023 posts. đ¤ AI Coding Assistant: Claude Code + GitHub Copilot CLI + Codex âď¸ Automation: Hammerspoon đ Backups: Backblaze đ Bookmarks: Raindrop.io đ ...
A terminal tool for managing cron jobs locally and on servers.
Humans love stories. Maybe that is because for thousands of years, stories were the way information was preserved and passed on to others, to the next generations. Maybe because they create community and collective culture. Maybe because they capture our ...
I have to confess that I am not reading that many books these days. Most of the time, I resort to listening to them in audio form. But every once in a while, a book comes along that is just ...
âReactâs mobile strategy inherently drives teams toward platform capture. The web offers an alternative: no gatekeepers, no platform fees, direct distribution.â
Topics covered in this episode: Cyclopts: A CLI library The future of Python web services looks GIL-free Free-threaded GC Polite lazy imports for Python package maintainers Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at ...
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In 1977, NASA launched two spaceships carrying two golden records into the void of interstellar space. The Voyager Golden Records contained instructions for playing its contents, finding Earth in the cosmos (oh my âŚ), as well as images, a variety ...
My gut feeling tells me that not that many people have yet heard of or used the linear() easing function, one of the most exciting newer additions to CSS. Looking at the stats in the State of CSS survey, this ...
11Seeds are shitty little bastards. You put them in the ground. Nothing happens. You water. You watch. You pull weeds. Nothing happens. You wait. You water. You watch. Nothing happens....
Discover 10 lesser-known CLI apps that boost productivity and add flairâlike C Bonsai, a customizable ASCII bonsai tree growing in your terminal in real time.
âReactâs core failure is compounded by confusing API design for which documentation is indecisive, essays are written, and correct usage is endlessly debated.â
Claude Skills are the approachable AI tool I didn't know I needed.
Now that cross-document view transitions are gradually making their way into modern browsers, now seems like the perfect time to explore them, if you havenât already. They are, in fact, surprisingly straightforward to implement. And just like weâve seen with ...
On the joy of making arbitrary small rules for yourself which you can break at will but which also might help you steer your own obstinate behavior a bit more...
