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All of our tools(opens in new tab)
This episode is a fun crossover from our Python news and tips podcast, Python Bytes. We have had some big changes over there. Brian Okken has moved on and Calvin Hendryx-Parker has joined the show as the new co-host. To ...
Physical constraints and enjoyment(opens in new tab)
I’m back to thinking about constraints. This time, Terry Godier’s great video The Feeling Music Used to Give You (hat tip to Robert). Having what amounts to an infinite library of background music was fixing the wrong constraint. And that’s ...
Open source maintainership in the age of AI(opens in new tab)
AI has really changed the game around software development. More people are leveraging AI than ever to contribute patches to projects they use. To me, this is a good thing as more folks will contribute patches rather than fork or ...
An Unemotional Analysis of This AI Regulation Situation(opens in new tab)
An Unemotional Analysis of This AI Regulation Situation/images/ai-regulation-unemotional-analysis.webp/images/ai-regulation-unemotional-analysis.webp Here's a more logical and less emotional way to look at what's happening with the chaotic regulation of these AI models... It took decades/centurie...
Nuclear Grade Quality for all: Lessons learned from Porsche(opens in new tab)
Learn how Big W plans to deliver Porsche performance on a Volkswagen budget.
Self-Host Weekly (26 June 2026) (opens in new tab)
We've been trying to reach you about your self-hosted identity stack
Introducing the Cluster API plugin for Headlamp(opens in new tab)
Headlamp is an open-source, extensible Kubernetes SIG UI project designed to let you explore, manage, and debug cluster resources directly from a browser. Cluster API (CAPI) is a Kubernetes sub-project that brings declarative, Kubernetes-style APIs to cluster lifecycle management. It ...
Inspect Volcano workloads faster with Headlamp(opens in new tab)
Volcano is a cloud native batch scheduler for Kubernetes, built for high-performance computing, AI/ML, and other batch workloads. Headlamp is an extensible Kubernetes web UI. With its plugin system, Headlamp can surface APIs and workflows beyond the built-in Kubernetes resources. ...
The Java Story | Official Trailer | Full Film Coming July 17th(opens in new tab)
The Coming Divide: AI-Native or Left Behind(opens in new tab)
The Coming Divide: AI-Native or Left Behind/images/blog/ai-native-divide/header.webp/images/blog/ai-native-divide/header.webp I'm getting more worried, and more frustrated, about this new phase of AI disillusionment. Some of it is fair. Hundreds of billions are sloshing around in financing shell ...
See your serverless: introducing the Headlamp plugin for Knative(opens in new tab)
Headlamp is an open-source, extensible Kubernetes SIG UI project designed to let you explore, manage, and debug cluster resources. Knative brings serverless workloads to Kubernetes, handling traffic routing, autoscaling, and revision management so teams can deploy and iterate without fighting ...
Why I wrote PEP 832 -- virtual environment discovery(opens in new tab)
While I decide what to do with PEP 832 after polling folks on their opinion, I thought I would write out why I'm even bothering with any of this.I'm going to talk from the perspective of VS Code and its ...
A bundle of bones // W24 + 25 — 2026(opens in new tab)
I have to publish this now, we’re already halfway through W26. Current situation: Monday 08 June: The U of Ark college visit. Zeke really likes it and they have a...
Spotlight on WG Device Management(opens in new tab)
The rising popularity of AI, Edge, and Telecommunications workloads on Kubernetes has led to new requirements for hardware management. We now need hardware specification beyond CPU time and memory allocations. This includes allocating GPUs, TPUs, network interfaces, and other hardware, ...
Finding curated public domain images(opens in new tab)
Xavier de Maistre in an armchair, displaying his “book of discoveries” (Veyssier, 1860) Every so often I like to include a public domain image in a blog post. I’m fond of the woodblock and lithographic illustrations of the late 1800s. ...
Deep dive into iroh: A replacement for WireGuard or a P2P layer for your application?(opens in new tab)
Just last week, the iroh project announced the release of its v1.0. What is iroh? Well, I'm glad you're asking because it's a very interesting project that I'm following for
How to Balance Speed, Quality, and Mental Overhead in Agentic Engineering(opens in new tab)
I've been back at work for about a month now after parental leave and a 12 week programming retreat at Recurse Center. We're leaning hard into agentic engineering and I'm bullish on it - I spent a lot...
herald(opens in new tab)
A powerful TUI email client & calendar tool for your terminal.
The First CLI Tool You NEED To Learn (You'll Use It Every Day)(opens in new tab)
#485: Creating memories(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Backup Docker volumes locally or to any S3 Pyodide 314.0 Release nb-cli: A Command-Line Interface for AI Agents and Notebook Automation Hindsight Agent Memory That Learns Extras Joke See the full show notes for this ...
Stop, don’t Slop(opens in new tab)
So you find a bug in an Open Source project and wish to spend your tokens solving that issue for the good of humanity. Your fingers hover over the keyboard, trembling in anticipation of the glorious prompt that will unblock ...
Write a coding agent from first principles(opens in new tab)
Learn how to write a coding agent in this Python tutorial that teaches how to interact with an LLM through an API, how to manage the conversation context, and how to do tool calling. Introduction This tutorial will show you ...
QUIC is much more than a replacement for TCP(opens in new tab)
Most of the literature about QUIC RFC 9000 describes it as a replacement for TCP + TLS, with the traditional use case of communication over IP in mind. It's true,
HTTP QUERY Method(opens in new tab)
Exploring the new HTTP Query method with first principles, what is the need for new method, and where it sits. We explore the limitations of GET and the unintuitive use of POST methods for filtering
Debating the Morality of Dario Amodei(opens in new tab)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FxXr3enprE My discussion with @ZackKormanhttps://x.com/ZackKorman on whether Dario and Anthropic are good or bad for the world. Some quick post-debate thoughts: I think Zach is very wrong about the tech itself and its capabilities, and the speed with which it's ...
Using an iPad Pro as a Laptop(opens in new tab)
What I loved and hated
Self-Host Weekly (19 June 2026) (opens in new tab)
Bug fixes and performance improvements
European Delusions & Danish Drones(opens in new tab)
Hashing at 130 GB/s with XXH3, Rust and AVX-512(opens in new tab)
I just ran a quick benchmark comparing the different xxHash hashing functions on an AMD Zen 5 EPYC processor (in pure Rust, from https://github.com/rust-stdx/stdx), and Ho My G..., XXH3 is
A workaround for hiding empty slots in Chromium(opens in new tab)
Named slots are one of web components’ biggest superpowers ✨. Imagine a Button component with an optional icon; in Web Components we don’t need a separate Button and IconButton, a single Button component with will do. Or a card component ...
Do not bargain to be loved(opens in new tab)
“Gentle A gentler world begins in the way you touch your heart. Be soft with the light inside you. Caress your body with this breath. God is nothing else but...
Farewell, Doctor Who(opens in new tab)
My rambling thoughts about the increasingly poor storytelling of Doctor Who, which has led to its cancellation.
There Are No Instances in atproto(opens in new tab)
Like RSS and Google Reader.
CAP service authentication at design time and in production(opens in new tab)
Is There Really a 'Vienna School of Agentic Coding'?(opens in new tab)
Spoons by Sam(opens in new tab)
I play Clues by Sam nearly every single day. I wrote about it before, but solving a little crime puzzle adds a micro-thrill to my day. A little blast of logic, misdirection, and wordplay. It’s a frequent topic of conversation ...
This is it(opens in new tab)
“As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous...
Does Learning Clojure Make You a Better Programmer?(opens in new tab)
Astral joins OpenAI(opens in new tab)
OpenAI just acquired Astral, the company behind uv, Ruff, and ty. And if your first thought was "wait, is uv toast?", you are not alone. But here's the twist Charlie Marsh shared with me: he thinks they may ship more ...
The Rape of Britain(opens in new tab)
Why stdx is not on crates.io(opens in new tab)
Why stdx is not on crates.io While I think that the xxx aspect of stdx has been well received, a lot of Rust developers were suffering with the current status
My Morning Meditation Ritual as a Senior Software Engineer(opens in new tab)
I've been running a new meditation practice for the past several months and it's working great so wanted to share. Morning Pages My meditation practice is morning pages adapted from The Artist's Way....
HTMX and Web Components Instead of React(opens in new tab)
“So instead of asking "why not React?" we asked: Which of our actual problems would React solve? We went through the list. There were none.”
clin(opens in new tab)
A TUI note management app inspired by Obsidian.
There's no point resisting(opens in new tab)
Of God and mammon(opens in new tab)
There’s a longstanding criticism of Buddhism in the West as McMindfulness™, a watered-down and commodified version of the real thing. And it’s certainly disheartening to see how few Buddhist groups charge nothing for the teachings and look like little more ...
7 years ago, I left nursing for tech. I'll NEVER go back.(opens in new tab)
#484: All our tools(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: pi + superpowers Terminal: Warp.dev + OhMyZSH {Blink,kitty} + mosh + tmux Claude code MacWhisper or Handy Tailscale Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/484
I built a game where you spend Elon Musk's money(opens in new tab)
TL;DR - A game where you get $1 trillion of Elon Musk's money and spend it. Try it now: Spend Elon Musk's Money What is it You get $1 trillion of Elon Musk's money. Spend it on a catalog of ...