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I had the privilege of serving in 2/34th Infantry Brigade Combat Team in Afghanistan. We were the tip of the spear in implementation of the then new COIN counterinsurgency strategy, which was further symbolized by being the first brigade-sized element ...
Topics covered in this episode: PostgreSQL 18 Released Testing is better than DSA (Data Structures and Algorithms) Pyrefly in Cursor/PyCharm/VSCode/etc Playwright & pytest techniques that bring me joy Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the ...
Engineering managers sit at the intersection of tech, product, and people—which means collaboration is key. In this episode, we explore how to build strong working relationships with project managers and stakeholders.
Literacy standards have been falling, and the current generation of university students is the first in the post-war era to have declining IQs. Anecdotally, I’ve noticed that TV shows and movies have become more literal with characters stating exactly what ...
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/521
How my Obsidian vault works after, a practical setup. Including bottom-up Zettelkasten notes, plugins, Bases and my general rules.
I walk by a Holzer installation as part of my commute, sometimes stop, pick a maxim for the day. It’s not so different from pulling a Tarot card or finding a line in a reading – except I’m lying, it ...
Toads are frogs
My latest iteration in how I take notes on mobile is using the Notebook Navigator plugin and the Cupertino theme in Obsidian!
Letters from The Internet.
We're excited to announce the alpha support for a changed block tracking mechanism. This enhances the Kubernetes storage ecosystem by providing an efficient way for CSI storage drivers to identify changed blocks in PersistentVolume snapshots. With a driver that can ...
The suspicion that all this is élite anxiety in the face of a democratizing mediascape deepens when you consider what the attentionistas want people to focus on. Generally, it’s fine art, old books, or untrammelled nature—as if they were running ...
Hello everyone, Today was a good day as I was happy to share the progress I made on Pingoo: Implementing automatic TLS for Pingoo: here is what it takes to
This blog is on Pika. Part of having a Pika blog is having (if you want it) a guestbook. I have it, I want it, I fucking love it. I...
I do not want Discord’s Nitro. I do not want it, friend or foe. I will not boost, I will not pay, I do not want it any day. I do not want it on my phone, I do not ...
TL; DR: Visit the GitHub repository to get started: https://github.com/pingooio/pingoo I'm currently implementing automatic TLS certificates management for Pingoo (the fast, secure and easy-to-use Load Balancer / API Gateway /
There’s an AI Security and Safety concept that I’m calling “AI Comprehension Gaps.” It’s a bit of a mouthful, but it’s an important concept. It’s when there’s a mismatch between what a user knows or sees and what an AI ...
A TUI ebook reader with Text-to-Speech (TTS).
I gave a short address for the first AIE Paris conference organized by Koyeb!
Rituals? I can’t stop myself. They’re so good. Absolutely breathtaking. Humanity’s finest work, perhaps. They make no sense. It’s all about beauty, about made-up meaning, about art. Rituals add unnecessary, arbitrary extra requirements to a simple action. Light a candle ...
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/520
On behalf of the Kubernetes community, I am thrilled to announce that the Pod Level Resources feature has graduated to Beta in the Kubernetes v1.34 release and is enabled by default! This significant milestone introduces a new layer of flexibility ...
Topics covered in this episode: pandas is getting pd.col expressions Cline, At-Cost Agentic IDE Tooling uv cheatsheet Ducky Network UI Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/450
As an engineering manager, project management isn’t just a skill—it’s part of the job. In this episode, we unpack what effective project management looks like from the EM seat.
Let's talk about how how the functional pipe operator helps to simplify and improve code readability and composability, and how it contrasts with the fluent interface design pattern commonly used in OOP.
Privacy Policy Effective date: September 22, 2025 The Cynical Developer (“we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and the choices you have. Information We Collect Personal information you provide: ...
I think I’ve pointed to Elliott before. This video does itself to the point of absurdity. (Watching it, I found myself pretty sick of heavyweight fonts, somehow, but the graphic elements were largely far better than I’d’ve expected)
Have you ever made a typo when expanding your persistent volumes in Kubernetes? Meant to specify 2TB but specified 20TiB? This seemingly innocuous problem was kinda hard to fix - and took the project almost 5 years to fix. Automated ...
This is all done by a Quirky Personal Site Haver (really: don’t miss the main site!) but this subsite is more pointed at a lot of content you’ve surely come across before:
Python appears to be everywhere nowadays! How did it happen, that a language that almost died in the Python 2 to 3 process is now the lingua franca a default choice when people talk about programming? There must be some ...
Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) is a Kubernetes API for managing scarce resources across Pods and containers. It enables flexible resource requests, going beyond simply allocating N number of devices to support more granular usage scenarios. With DRA, users can request ...
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/519
The rise of AI/ML and other high-performance workloads has made specialized hardware like GPUs, TPUs, and FPGAs a critical component of many Kubernetes clusters. However, as discussed in a previous blog post about navigating failures in Pods with devices, when ...
David has worked on a lot of cool tech you know like Kubernetes and Kubeflow, and he's usually a few years ahead of the game. So getting to catch up with him about what he's working on now is probably ...
In short, science classes pair a description of our best knowledge at the present with a story of discovery of how we came to know what we know now, with the clear implication that this method is how we will ...
A terminal-based SSH manager.
Volume group snapshots were introduced as an Alpha feature with the Kubernetes 1.27 release and moved to Beta in the Kubernetes 1.32 release. The recent release of Kubernetes v1.34 moved that support to a second beta. The support for volume ...
Coolify & Dokploy are two of the most popular open souce platforms as a service, but which one is right for you? Well, in order to answer that, I decided to put each one, head to head.
A quick look into where we came from and what inspires us to do what it takes to build a solid reputation.
Diving into Elixir has been a blast, and its functional paradigms are challenging the way I think about programming. Join me as I chronicle this journey from the perspective of a long-time OOP dev.
“When teams need a new frontend, the conversation rarely starts with “What are the constraints and which tool best fits them?” It often starts with “Let’s use React; everyone knows React.” That reflex creates a self-perpetuating cycle where network effects, ...
This enhancement separates the responsibility of managing node lifecycle and pod eviction into two distinct components. Previously, the node lifecycle controller handled both marking nodes as unhealthy with NoExecute taints and evicting pods from them. Now, a dedicated taint eviction ...
Topics covered in this episode: Mozilla’s Lifeline is Safe After Judge’s Google Antitrust Ruling troml - suggests or fills in trove classifiers for your projects pqrs: Command line tool for inspecting Parquet files Testing for Python 3.14 Extras Joke See ...
The first 90 days in any new role are crucial—but as a new engineering manager, they can make or break your trajectory. In this episode, we dive into how to approach your first three months with intention and clarity.
