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My Current AI Dev Workflow(opens in new tab)
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.
#446: State of Python 2025(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: pypistats.org was down, is now back, and there’s a CLI State of Python 2025 wrapt: A Python module for decorators, wrappers and monkey patching. pysentry Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode ...
maternal devotion in the velvet spider(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Living in Macau(opens in new tab)
What is it like to live in Macau? Working in a special administrative region of China, at the University of Macau.
Quit being support staff(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Agentic Al Programming with Python(opens in new tab)
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/517
Essential Reading for Agentic Engineers - August 2025(opens in new tab)
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.
🗓️ Office Hours for Late August(opens in new tab)
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 ...
AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That’s Now Wrong(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Dangers of AI(opens in new tab)
Risks of AI - Misinformation, power concentration, skill loss. The shift towards a bot-filled internet.
Why is CSS ::first-letter not working?(opens in new tab)
I had some misconceptions about this sneaky pseudo element.
jocalsend(opens in new tab)
A TUI file-sharing tool based on the LocalSend protocol.
Your Twitch live stream graphics don’t really matter, but they can help(opens in new tab)
Create a professional-looking stream brand with just a few key graphics.
Just One More Prompt(opens in new tab)
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.
Accelerating Python Data Science at NVIDIA(opens in new tab)
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/516
AI Models Are Not Safety-Tuned for Kids(opens in new tab)
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.
The Quest for the Shortest Domain(opens in new tab)
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.
What If the Internet Wasn’t Free?(opens in new tab)
A thought experiment: how different would the web look if every service came with a price tag?
Triskel Arts Centre - Electric Worlds Day(opens in new tab)
Low- and Mid-Tier Mobile for the Real World (2025)(opens in new tab)
Discover the most representative low- and mid-tier mobile devices for web performance testing in 2025.
#445: Auto-activate Python virtual environments for any project(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: pyx - optimized backend for uv Litestar is worth a look Django remake migrations django-chronos Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/445
Magic floating-point numbers: NaNs(opens in new tab)
After following Laurie Kirk down a rabbit hole on subnormal numbers in the IEEE 754 float specification, I stumbled upon other interesting properties of floating-point numbers, specifically how NaNs (Not a Number) are represented in binary. After more than 10 ...
10 CLI apps that have actually improved the way I work in the terminal(opens in new tab)
Out of all of the cli applications out there, few have really transformed the way I work in the terminal. However, there are some that have had a huge transformation, so much so that I thought it worthwhile to share ...
Building Trust with Sean Goedecke(opens in new tab)
What is it like to ship software in big tech? Sean gives us his experience from multiple companies and what he’s learned. It's probably not what you think. It doesn't matter if you're vibe coding features or bash-ing devops, we ...
Beyond Booleans(opens in new tab)
What is the type of 2 + 2 = 4?
238: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish(opens in new tab)
A farewell to a fun 10 years.Also, I should have tested it better. :)In the audio I got the numbers wrong. Doh!This is episode 238, not 237. Oh well.I'll still be around, of course, at:pythontest.com - where I write about ...
What is NEW NET ART ??(opens in new tab)
A short explainer of New Net Art for the uninitiated!
The Two Faces of a Failing Culture(opens in new tab)
An open review of workplace culture and patterns I've seen across the years.
Syncthing 2.0 Upgrade Notes(opens in new tab)
Syncthing 2.0 was released last week, and I upgraded my Macs and my Intel NUC. I’m pleased with the performance. I never had complaints about it being slow, but the new app is much faster. I like that they’re using ...
Checkpointing performance in Write-Ahead-Logs(opens in new tab)
Making Checkpointing fast Since I began working for turso officially in May of this year (relevant post), I had been spending most of my time learning the inner workings of the cloud platform, and familiarizing myself with the other codebases ...
cariddi(opens in new tab)
A tool to crawl urls, scan endpoints, secrets, api keys, file extensions, tokens and more.
237: FastAPI Cloud - Sebastián Ramírez(opens in new tab)
In this episode, Brian interviews Sebastián Ramírez, creator of FastAPI, about its rapid rise in developer popularity and the launch of FastAPI Cloud. Sebastian explains how FastAPI Cloud addresses deployment challenges small teams face. He shares his transition from open-source ...
Rustdesk Server on Ubuntu 22.04(opens in new tab)
As usual, I’m self-documenting a project while I work on it. Rustdesk is an open source remote control utility that caught my eye about a year ago; it’s cross platform and allows you to self-host your own “relay server” so ...
#444: Begone Python of Yore!(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Coverage.py regex pragmas Python of Yore nox-uv A couple Django items Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/444
Durable Python Execution with Temporal(opens in new tab)
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/515
Learn systems, not langauges(opens in new tab)
Due to the nature of my story and the attention that it's received, as mentioned in my last post, I frequently get emails from developers, college kids, or other people with troubled pasts that are looking for advice on either ...
blakewatson.com turns 20(opens in new tab)
This website is for humans(opens in new tab)
Enabling Hugo static site search with Lunr.js(opens in new tab)
There comes a time in every woman’s life when she only wants one thing: for her mininmal static site to finally have some of the same features that dynamic blogging platforms do, namely search. So now I’ve implemented search on ...
🤖 VibeOps: Using Claude Code on Cheap VPS Servers(opens in new tab)
Today I came across Pieter Levels' post about “VibeOps,” a workflow that involves SSHing to a cheap VPS server and installing Claude Code directly on it. I’m running this setup on a cheap Hetzner box. While this approach might sound ...
The Career Ceiling No One Talks About: Senior Dev, Stuck Forever(opens in new tab)
For many developers senior is the quiet end of the road.
My 2025 New Mac Setup(opens in new tab)
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
exosphere(opens in new tab)
A CLI / TUI for aggregated patch reporting & system status monitoring via SSH.
I finally added Bluesky comments and likes to my blog (and you can too!)(opens in new tab)
Poltergeist: The Ghost That Keeps Your Builds Fresh(opens in new tab)
Meet Poltergeist: an AI-friendly universal build watcher that auto-detects and rebuilds any project—Swift, Rust, Node.js, CMake, or anything else—the moment you save a file. Zero config, just haunting productivity.
A Treatise on AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment(opens in new tab)
On chatbot sycophancy, passivity, and the case for more intellectually challenging companions
#443: Patching Multiprocessing(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: rumdl - A Markdown Linter written in Rust Coverage 7.10.0: patch aioboto3 You might not need a Python class Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/443