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Write More Classes
Furthermore I am of the oppinion that Python developers should write more classes.
Armin Ronacher
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The life and death of open source companies
More thoughts on Open Source licensing and companies.
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Better Models: Worse Tools
About an aggravating tool-calling regression in newer Claude models.
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MCP doesn't need tools, it needs code
Exploration into providing MCPs with the most powerful of all tools: code.
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Unicode in Python 3
A list of things about unicode on Linux and Python 3 you really did not want to know.
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Python and the Principle of Least Astonishment
Why Python follows the Principle of Least Astonishment even when some people are surprised.
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Building Pi with Pi
Learnings from post-AI Open Source and how we’re approaching this so far.
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A year of vibes
A personal recap of 2025 and a year of a new style of engineering.
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Revenge of the Types
Some notes about what appears to be current trend of programming languages and my thoughts about it.
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Python Packaging: Hate, hate, hate everywhere
A sad example of how easy it is to dismiss certain design principles because it does not seem relevant at the time.
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Passkeys and Modern Authentication
Some thoughts in support of simple solutions.
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AI and the Ship of Theseus
Slopforks: what happens when a library gets rewritten with AI?
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Rye: A Vision Continued
A progress update on where my Rye Project is today.
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Rust Any part 3: we have upcasts
Some good news is coming in Rust 1.86
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Such a Little Thing: The Semicolon in Rust
Look at a tiny syntax detail that shows up in current versions of rust that has profound implications on how the language deals with almost everything being an expression.
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Playground Wisdom: Threads Beat Async/Await
Musings about async await again and why I think virtual threads
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On Error Handling in Rust
My thoughts about error handling in APIs after writing a Redis library in Rust.
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Absurd Workflows: Durable Execution with Just Postgres
Durable execution with just postgres.
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What is Codemode
If you just need bash, why do you need codemode?
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P(doom)
Are we all going to die?
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Dealing with Timezones in Python
The problems with timezones and Python’s datetime object and how you would properly use them.
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Why I Don't Hate Git: Hidden Consistency
Some thoughts on why git’s complex user interface works so well in practice.
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The Future of Payments and Open Source Support
Some thoughts about various payment systems on the internet and how viable they are for open source project support.
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Python on Wheels
A quick overview into wheel based Python deployments.
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Codeberg Divides
Codeberg drew a democratic, but suboptimal line.
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The End of Safe Harbor and a Scary Path Forward
Some in detail analysis about what the end of safe harbor means for small companies, especially in Europe.
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Lessons from a Pessimist: Make Your Pessimism Productive
On the topic of life lessons from a born pessimist.
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Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?
What’s going on with the AI builder community right now?
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The Problem with Implicit Scoping in CoffeeScript
A longer explanation of why I think that the CoffeeScript scoping is problematic and should be changed.
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Improved Error Handling in Rust
Overview of how to handle errors in the current version of the Rust programming language.