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Visit lucumr.pocoo.org → RSS feedOn Hacker News Nov 2010 – Oct 2026
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Some things just take time
On friction, patience, and planting trees.
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Before GitHub
Open Source before GitHub was reputation-driven and full of friction
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The Tower Keeps Rising
Vibecoding and the possible collapse of a shared language.
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You can't Rust that
Some tips for how to be more productive in Rust by avoiding situations you cannot solve in Rust.
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Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?
Some thoughts on Astra and newfangled long-horizon models.
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Rust for Python Programmers
Are you a Python programmer and interested in Rust? This article goes over the basics of making the jump.
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The Coming Loop
Loops, harnesses, and why even loop skeptics may end up with them.
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Agent design is still hard
My Agent abstractions keep breaking somewhere I don’t expect.
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A Fresh Look at Rust
An updated report on my experience with Rust and where I think it might be going.
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I don't understand Python's Asyncio
A little confession that I have no idea how asyncio works in Python 3.
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Tech Debt: My Rust Library Is Now a CDO
Bringing the great successes of financial engineering to Rust.
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Be careful about what you dislike
Observations about the problem of having strong opinions and sharing them with others.
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I'm not feeling the async pressure
An introduction to back pressure in systems and why it matters.
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Be Careful with Python's New-Style String Format
Some general warnings about the use of str.format in Python.
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The Python I Would Like To See
What I would imagine an better Python would look like.
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Tools: Code Is All You Need
The solution to agentic flows was code all along.
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Scaling Mastodon is impossible
Now that Twitter is dying, what can replace it?
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Thoughts on Python 3
My current thoughts on the state of Python 3 and where it’s heading.
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Agentic Coding Recommendations
Current recommendations of agentic coding.
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Build It Yourself
We need a vibe shift on dependencies in programming.
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Micropackages and Open Source Trust Scaling
Some thoughts about why npm style micro-packages are a huge liability for everybody and what we could do to make them work.
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Introducing Lektor – A Static File Content Management System For Python
The background story to why I built yet another static website generator in Python.
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Websockets 101
Quick introduction into the final specification of websockets (:rfc:6455).
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Python's Hidden Regular Expression Gems
Some hidden features of the Python re module and the support machinery that drives it.
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SQL is Agile
Thoughts about why relational databases are not a bad choice when starting a new project.
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Modern Web Applications are Here
Battlefield 3’s Battlelog system is an interesting web application that many of us missed. Here is why it’s amazing and worth a look at.
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Rye and Uv: August Is Harvest Season for Python Packaging
My thoughts on Rye and uv.
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New Werkzeug and Flask Releases
Update on the Flask 0.10 and Werkzeug 0.9 releases.
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Congratulations: We now have opinions on your open source contributions
More thoughts on supply chain and package managers.