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Coding on Vacation(opens in new tab)
The question I asked myself (and the private Slack channel): is ensuring that I have a phone based approach to agentic coding while I’m on vacation healthy because I’m ensuring that I’m not on the computer, a phone is less ...
When (not) to break rules(opens in new tab)
“You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. — Alvin Toffler” A rule (or boundary)...
The End(opens in new tab)
“In my experience, React (et al) is almost always the wrong solution. React has its place, I’m sure, but it has turned into the proverbial hammer that makes everything look like a nail. I also know that React can be ...
Denmark desperately needs more inequality(opens in new tab)
#474: Astral to join OpenAI(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Starlette 1.0.0 Astral to join OpenAI uv audit Fire and forget (or never) with Python’s asyncio Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/474
The absolute beginners guide to databasemaxxing(opens in new tab)
So, you are interested in getting started learning databases? I get a lot of emails from people asking me how they can begin to learn the vast world of databases, and whether they are far enough along on their programming ...
The Shape of Friction(opens in new tab)
Dave Rupert just wrote a piece called People are not friction and I just had to write a short reaction blog post, because Dave names something I’ve been thinking about for a while now. His main argument: the AI marketing ...
🎙️ Breaking Change podcast v53 - Pod Freeze(opens in new tab)
The promise of Breaking Change is that with every major version (this being the 60th episode of the program, but only the 53rd such release), I will break something. Well, I finally did it. I think I broke the show. ...
People are not friction(opens in new tab)
The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect of AI is a pretty well documented phenomenon: The Gell-Mann amnesia effect is a cognitive bias describing the tendency of individuals to critically assess media reports in a domain they are knowledgeable about, yet continue to ...
Hack: claude -p(opens in new tab)
claude -p is a quick hack that I find myself using more.
Training The Future with Mark Russinovich(opens in new tab)
Sponsor FAFOFMDon't FAFO with cloud disaster recovery. Do it right with Arpio.Have a podcast you need help with? Reach out to HumblePod.Mark is the CTO of Azure and has decades of experience exploring the internals of systems. As a developer ...
Claude Code Hacking Skills Video(opens in new tab)
Hey y’all,
The State of Immutable Linux(opens in new tab)
Lies, damn lies, and read only filesystems
DjangoCon US Talks I'd Like to See 2026 Edition(opens in new tab)
This is my annual list of DjangoCon US talks I’d like to see. I have been doing this since 2015, and it’s one of my favorite traditions. DjangoCon US 2026 is in Chicago this year, August 24-28. The CFP is ...
Monty - Python in Rust for AI(opens in new tab)
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/541
🔥 Update on using MacBook Neo for dev tasks: this…(opens in new tab)
Update on using MacBook Neo for dev tasks: this is definitely a device you should to reboot daily, even without Chrome or any Electron apps. This morning, Zed (a native Rust app) was 500% CPU without a single window open, ...
Notes for my future self on how to set up a camera for streaming(opens in new tab)
I had to set up my Sony a6400 fresh, and here's all the settings I used!
Case Statement: Building a Harness(opens in new tab)
I codified my job as a DX engineer into a system that dispatches agents, enforces conventions mechanically, and learns from its own failures. Here's how case works and why I think every developer should build something like it.
The associations people make(opens in new tab)
A silly story is easier to remember .octo-canvas-wrap { width: 100%; overflow-x: auto; overflow-y: hidden; -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; margin: 2rem 0; } .octopus-graph { width: 600px; height: 460px; position: relative; margin: 0 auto; border: 2px solid #000; background: #fff; overflow: hidden; ...
🔥 Using MacBook Neo for "real" development work…(opens in new tab)
Using MacBook Neo for "real" development work and it's simultaneously juggling: • Running Claude Code in three tabs at once • Compiling multi-package Xcode builds • Automating two iOS Simulators and a Mac build of my app Hasn't missed a ...
2 Ways to Correct the Financial Times at AWS (So Far)(opens in new tab)
2 Ways to Correct the Financial Times at AWS (So Far) Amazon's Fastest-Shipping Product Is Now Blog Posts Correcting the Financial Times I've been watching AWS long enough to develop a feel for when a company's communications shift from "informing" ...
Building small and secure Docker images for Rust: scratch vs alpine vs debian(opens in new tab)
While Docker is now the main way to distribute backend software and CLI tools, you may be wondering how to build minimal and secure Docker images for your Rust projects.
gittop(opens in new tab)
A TUI for visualizing Git repository statistics.
🔥 Claude sure goes down a lot for being a product…(opens in new tab)
Claude sure goes down a lot for being a product targeting businesses. Maybe Anthropic is just doing humanity a solid by helping us understand how much it will suck when the era of subsidized pricing for LLM-based products ends.
🔥 Sent the DLSS 5 video to some not-very-online…(opens in new tab)
Sent the DLSS 5 video to some not-very-online friends and they thought it looked incredible. Shame on them for not knowing that real gamers are supposed to be outraged! (I happen to think it looks slick as hell and am ...
🎙️ Merge Commits podcast - freeCodeCamp: Which Devs Are Screwed?(opens in new tab)
Quincy Larson over at freeCodeCamp had me on their podcast to discuss how the rapidly changing software industry is impacting junior developers and what they can do about it. I don't normally spend time talking about this stuff, because I ...
🔥 We blew past this milestone without much…(opens in new tab)
We blew past this milestone without much fanfare, but it bears repeating: building awareness & goodwill by releasing open source no longer makes strategic sense for many companies. Agents increasingly consume & adapt OSS—often without users' knowledge—and cut out the ...
ONCE (Again)(opens in new tab)
🔗 Models are commodities, harnesses are differentiators(opens in new tab)
Ben Thompson's latest rests on a single load-bearing assumption: that the harness and the model are tightly coupled, the way Apple's hardware and software are. It follows, then, that if agents require integration between model and harness, that the companies ...
When perfection is table stakes(opens in new tab)
Some perspectives on approaching a rewrite of a software project.
#473: A clean room rewrite?(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: chardet ,AI, and licensing refined-github pgdog: PostgreSQL connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder Agentic Engineering Patterns Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/473
AI (and) Maximalism(opens in new tab)
I think I've finally understood why some people find value and love to tinker with AI assistants such as WhateverClaw while I find them (mostly) useless or even the idea
The Shape of Inequalities(opens in new tab)
…symmetry isn’t just a preference for “pretty” shapes. Contents Introduction The HM-AM-GM-QM Inequality The two circles The Semicircle The Container The 3D container The Sum of Squares Inequality Nesbitt’s Inequality Conclusion Introduction While I was randomly browsing the web, I ...
Timberborn 1.0, HTTP Lever, and Claude Code(opens in new tab)
Timberborn is very much my kind of game. Complex, cozy, climate change, water system design, beavers. (My friend Schuyler pointed out at one point that my preferred genre of game is “management sims”, and that perhaps I was little over ...
clawspark: Your Private OpenClaw AI Assistant That Never Phones Home(opens in new tab)
Clawspark provides a way to Install openclaw on your device in a secure way with a single command.
How to Thought Lead (2026)(opens in new tab)
I first started compiling "How To Thought Lead" in my notes 5 years ago, at first as an ironic parody and then slowly becoming sincere, and never published it, 1) because I don't…
Here's What I Learned About Nemotron 3 Super -I Ran a 120B Parameter Model on Nvidia DGX Spark(opens in new tab)
Understand everything about Nvidia DGX spark along with hands on and benchmarks.
Modern Python monorepo with uv and prek(opens in new tab)
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/540
To return a value or not return a value(opens in new tab)
I believe operations that change things should always return values.
You can do better(opens in new tab)
Lately on X I have noticed a trend of posts that I imagine are probably the natural response to 'LinkedIn-brain' posts, which might be the result of the poor job market right now: "If hard work paid off, the donkey ...
Fresco: The lightbringer(opens in new tab)
Some jokes write themselves. In our case, the electrician wrote it. Let me give you a little context. Summers in Bucharest can get brutally hot, and when it gets that hot, your brain simply stops functioning. So on weekends, I ...
From Tailnet to platform (Changelog Interviews #679)(opens in new tab)
Adam talks with Tailscale co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer David Carney about where Tailscale is headed next: TSIDP, TSNet, multiple tailnets, and Aperture. They get into clickless auth (via TSIDP), TSNet apps, multiple tailnets for isolation and control, and Aperture, ...
Rust is slowly but surely eating PostgreSQL: Deep dive into Neon, ParadeDB, PgDog and more(opens in new tab)
While most people see PostgreSQL as a simple database, like MariaDB or CLickHouse, it has in fact evolved into a "data kernel", managing how data is stored and queried, in
tortuise(opens in new tab)
A 3D gaussian splat viewer that works in your terminal.
Big change brings big change (Changelog News #183)(opens in new tab)
This week's been wild — Iran bombed AWS data centers to take down Claude, OpenAI dropped GPT-5.4 (and it's seriously good for coding), and living brain cells are literally playing DOOM. We've also got a heartfelt take on what it ...
Stupid human coding mistakes(opens in new tab)
Should we call mistakes made by humans slop?
Examples for the tcpdump and dig man pages(opens in new tab)
#472: Monorepos(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Setting up a Python monorepo with uv workspaces cattrs: Flexible Object Serialization and Validation Learning to program in the AI age VS Code extension for FastAPI and friends Extras Joke See the full show notes ...
TIL: Checkov's Gun(opens in new tab)
A powerful technique used in storytelling.