Boom! Michael Droettboom's blog

I'm about to head off to PyCon US 2026 in Long Beach, California.

In July, I had the honor of giving a keynote talk at PyCon Colombia 2025.

Summary: Tips for profiling WebAssembly I couldn't find a comprehensive guide to profiling WebAssembly, so I thought I'd share my own limited experience here.

Summary: An early report on getting the scientific Python stack compiled to WebAssembly.

Summary: Presents an experimental alternative file format for Jupyter notebooks that plays nicer with version control.

gdb has fantastic support for debugging Python/C extensions.

I recently got a Mac Mini so I can start working on Macintosh-specific issues with matplotlib.

Jake Vanderplass has a very thought-provoking essay about the future of visualization in Python.

UPDATE: I am now sharing my code in the mdboom/mpl_browser_experiments github repository, rather than in a gist.

I've bought digital music from Amazon for almost as long as they've been in that business.

We have lost one of the greats of our community.

Note EDIT 2012-08-08: Added benchmarks in Firefox in addition to Chrome In the last post, I outlined some of the architectural difficulties bringing matplotlib's interactivity to the browser.

One of the big challenges that matplotlib faces as it enters its second decade is moving from a desktop app to the web browser client/server paradigm.