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I'm not sure how one measures the passage of time for a blog.

Not long ago, my online presence was served variously by Heroku, Fly, AWS, GCP, and GitHub Pages.

Sometime late last year, agentic coding tools hit a tipping point.

Now that t-strings are part of Python 3.14, I've seen a lot of people ask the question: "should I use them?"

I built a very goofy website, BIG TIME T-STRINGS, that tracks the use of Python 3.14's new t-strings in the wild.

Python 3.14's new t‑strings add flexibility and power to the language's arsenal of string processing tools.

A camera-friendly pika perched on the rocks along the Chain Lakes Loop near Mount Baker.

The premiere of Python: The Documentary is just a couple hours away.

"I built an entire startup with AI and now it's profitable."

I built a little website to help wrap my head around the state of unsheltered homelessness in Seattle.

There are bugs and then there are bugs.

My daughter and I vibe coded a little Cat Restaurant Game using VSCode, GitHub Copilot in its new-ish agent mode, and Claude Sonnet 4.

One of my favorite database design patterns is what I call the "mullet schema": business up front, party in the back, where every table in the database ends with a JSON column.

I gave a lightning talk at PyCon introducing t-strings to a hall full of Pythonistas.

I just ran across* Will Vincent's delightful PyCon 2025 Recap, the first of many recaps I hope to read from folks I met at the conference. * I'm old, so I "ran across" it in my RSS reader.

PyCon US has been a whirlwind of activity.

Just in time for PyCon US, I had the pleasure of being a guest on the Talk Python podcast with Michael Kennedy.

LLMs are powerful levers for writing code.

The view from behind Covel Creek Falls, during a weekend campout in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.

PEP 787, Safer subprocess usage using t-strings, is a newly proposed PEP that improves the safety of subprocess invocations in Python by building directly on the template strings features of PEP 750.