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Hi All! 🤗 And then, one cold evening in December, my car broke down. In the middle of the intersection, right when the traffic lights turned green and I was about to leave. The engine, which had been turned off ...
Favorite books of 2024 Like last year, I spent a fair amount of the year reading code and technical books. Every year I have this struggle. There is a lot going on in machine learning and engineering and I need ...
A brief review of 2024 and what I'm looking forward to in 2025.
The workflow of recursively searching for things or dealing with a list of issues to fix without getting lost.
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A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in December 2024.
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/490
i was involved in 3 end of year-ish recaps today:
Sometimes, our bodies speak louder than our minds.
This is a follow-up to Let's build a CDN - Part 1A new friend joins us. We talk about the high-level, including why Varnish and why we are doing this in the first place. We go through the plan for ...
There is a lot of debate in the software community around whether LLMs can replace developers. Part of the reason is the way we formulate the problem of what it means to write software. In industry, we still give outsize ...
From imposter syndrome to shipping features used by millions, here's what I learned during my year as a remote engineer at Meta.
Discover how to classify DevRel content to understand what works for your team. Learn about 4 content types, their goals, and leading themes.
Fork Around and Find Out is your downtime from uptime. Your break from the pager, and a chance to learn from expert’s successes and failures. We cover state-of-the-art, legacy practices for building, running, and maintaining software and systems. Be sure ...
A coat cannot make you truly happy.
A personal reflection on seven years of JS Party as the show transitions into its next chapter with dysfunctional.fm.
I wrote more terrible code. Here's how I fixed it.
I’ve recently decided to apply the permissive MIT License to all content on CSS Wizardry by default. How does this affect you?
Python has two modes of dealing with dates and times: Timezone-naive and timezone-aware. The former is simpler, the latter is more powerful but has some pitfalls in store. This article summarizes a few edge cases involving daylight saving shifts where ...
The new Speculation Rules API is incredibly powerful, but we can do so much more! By taking a layered approach, we can add more progressive functionality.
Take ownership—and responsibility—of your social data
Not because it's cool (it is), but because it's what your company actually needs right now."Business in the front, party in the back" isn't just some throwback style. It's the whole point.In our corporate, don't-let-HR-see-this reality,
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in November 2024.
“Frameworkism preaches that the way to improve user experiences is to adopt more (or different) tooling from the framework's ecosystem. This provides adherents with something to do that looks plausibly like engineering, except it isn't. It can even become a ...
In the past week I had two people separately tell me what they thought the Python Software Foundation Conduct WG did and both were wrong (and incidentally in the same way). As such, I wanted to clarify what exactly the ...
Why design another new performance score?! Good question…
This post is not about measuring success in DevRel, but about making an impact in a way *only* DevRel can do, and *should* be doing.
"Help me help you!" I caught myself shouting at Co-pilot last week. Yes, literally shouting at my AI assistant like Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire. That's when it hit me - this wasn't about the AI at all. This was ...