Armin Ronacher

Licensing in a Post Copyright World

Some thoughts about the absolute madness that is currently going on with licensing in the Open Source community and how github’s license chooser is making it worse.

Anger, Anxiety and Agency

Who is the AI villain we should be angry at?

Beautiful Native Libraries

A guide on writing beautiful native libraries in C or C++ that compile to native code.

WSGI and the Pluggable Pipe Dream

Why WSGI is not as big of a problem as you would believe and why framework independent pluggable applications don’t work in practice.

SQLAlchemy and You

The Django ORM feels so much easier than SQLAlchemy? Maybe this article can change your perception.

Open Source, SaaS and Monetization

My thoughts on monetizing open source SaaS businesses from my experience at Sentry.

Fast and Hard Code

People pick languages differently with LLMs.

MiniJinja: Learnings from Building a Template Engine in Rust

Learnings from building MiniJinja, a template engine in Rust

Common Mistakes as Python Web Developer

A short list of common mistakes in Python web applications in terms of security and architecture.

A Case for Upserts

Some thoughts on why upserts are necessary to write reliable web applications.

Python, the Web and Little Things on my Mind

A bunch of things currently on my mind regarding web development with Python and future directions.

ZeroMQ - Disconnects are Good for You

The hidden disconnects of ZeroMQ can be dangerous if you don’t write your application to work around them.

I am Doing HTTP Wrong

Uninitialized memory: Unsafe Rust is too hard

Why unsafe Rust is a complex and user unfriendly experience.

90%

AI is writing 90% of the code I was in charge of

Porting to Python 3 Redux

Some updated tips for porting software to Python 3.

Armin Ronacher: Collections in C

Using the C preprocessor to achive basic generic collection types.