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Age quod agis. This Latin phrase, attributed to Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit Order, translates to “do what you are doing.” Do what you are doing. Like in: dedicate yourself wholeheartedly to whatever you engage in. Do ...
From handles to hosting.
It’s Blogtober again. And this time, I’ve (more or less spontaneously) decided to take part in it. For those of you who don’t know what it is: Blogtober is a writing challenge that takes part every Oktober (similar to Bloguary, ...
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in September 2025.
A TUI application for Apache Airflow.
A field guide to what developers can control, what they can bend, and what they can only influence inside a larger organisation.
A short, external teardown that turns your team’s last retro into a roadmap for shipping faster.
There is hope if we do it together.
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 ...
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.
Toads are frogs
Letters from The Internet.
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 ...
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!
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/520
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
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.
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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 ...
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/519
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 ...
A terminal-based SSH manager.
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, ...
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 ...
In a recent turn of events, I find myself at a bit of a crossroads with an exciting new job on the horizon! In this post, I introduce myself and discuss my vision for the new blog.
A web path scanner for finding hidden files and directories.
Introducing Claude Code Anonymous - a new meetup format for full-breadth developers.
There is a very vigorous debate happening online right now around what shape evaluation for LLM-based products should take. I don’t want to rehash all of it, other than saying that if you are building any applications with with non-deterministic ...
My thesis for the future of software dev agents. This is a hastily written blogpost done on not a lot of sleep, so pardon poor pacing and structure and typos and mistakes but just getting it out there.
Topics covered in this episode: prek tinyio The power of Python’s print function Vibe Coding Fiasco: AI Agent Goes Rogue, Deletes Company's Entire Database Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/448
Watch me build Arena live - a real-time collaborative coding session exploring AI-powered development workflows.
I wrote a new bash script. And you probably shouldn't use it.
I will be in Chicago this Saturday through next week for DjangoCon US 2025 (September 8-12). I hope to see people there in person. If you can’t make it, please consider getting an online ticket. They are relatively inexpensive, you ...
