Terminal Trove August 2025 Wrap Up(opens in new tab)
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in August 2025.
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dcv(opens in new tab)
A TUI viewer for docker-compose.
llms.txt adoption(opens in new tab)
Exactly one year ago, Jeremy Howard published a proposal to make the web more accessible to AI and, in particular, to LLMs. How many of the top one million websites adopt this approach? The proposed standard suggests creating a file ...
#447: Going down a rat hole(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: rathole pre-commit: install with uv A good example of what functools.Placeholder from Python 3.14 allows Converted 160 old blog posts with AI Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website ...
A Lean Syntax Primer(opens in new tab)
Programming with proofs.
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Thanks for Joining Career Course Correction Your seat is confirmed. You’ll get a welcome email shortly with all the key details, including: Start date and time (NZDT) Zoom link for the live sessions Access to the private Signal group A ...
Talk: Почему компьютеры не умеют считать? @ Podlodka(opens in new tab)
How big are our embeddings now and why?(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Celebrating Django's 20th Birthday With Its Creators(opens in new tab)
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/518
The Toad Report #1(opens in new tab)
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.
Obs.js: Context-Aware Web Performance for Everyone(opens in new tab)
Obs.js is a tiny inline script that exposes network, battery, CPU, and memory signals to CSS and JavaScript so you can adapt to user context.
doxx(opens in new tab)
A viewer for Microsoft Word .docx files in the terminal.
Making a Website with Obsidian(opens in new tab)
How can you build a website using Obsidian? From markdown to web.
json/v2 is fixing many of Go's JSON quirks(opens in new tab)
The new json/v2 package is looking to be quite interesting
Ditch the Overheating Laptop: Supercharge Your Docker Workflow with Docker Offload(opens in new tab)
Running multiple Docker containers can slow down your laptop and drain your battery. In this blog, we explore Docker Offload — a game-changing feature
Career Course Correction(opens in new tab)
A 6-week program for mid-career developers who feel stuck, coasting, or drifting. Stop autopiloting. Start steering.
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 ...
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.
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