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Before GitHub
Open Source before GitHub was reputation-driven and full of friction
Armin Ronacher
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Write More Classes
Furthermore I am of the oppinion that Python developers should write more classes.
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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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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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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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What is Codemode
If you just need bash, why do you need codemode?
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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.