Matthew Rocklin

Frisky and Xarray Example A couple months ago I was doing some consulting work for a finance group that used Dask and Xarray at the ~10 TiB scale.

Updated Thoughts on AI Six months ago many of us wrote articles about AI.

Stepping Back I'm stepping back from my current commitments (Coiled, Dask, Python OSS generally) to make some space for myself.

Saying Goodbye to Winner-take-all Software Today software is a winner-take-all industry dominated by best-of-class products: GMail for e-mail Slack or Discord for chat Stripe for payments MS Office or Google Docs for documents ...

Claude Chic: Week 2 Unlike most of my writing, this post was largely written by Claude: It's been one week since we introduced Claude Chic, and adoption and development since then have been fun.

Multi Agent Swarms: Initial Thoughts Like many of us, I read articles about systems like Gas Town with a mixture of wonder and fear: I'm only using a few agents concurrently!

We're all Beginners Again While interviewing early adopters of Claude Chic I heard two common refrains: "Oh, I'm not very advanced with AI" "Programming feels fun again!"

Introducing Claude Chic Claude Chic is an alternative Claude Code UI that provides the following: Style: visually organizes the message stream for legibility Git Worktrees: organizes concurrent worktrees Multiple Agents: runs many sessions from the same w…

AI Zealotry I develop with AI today.

Twitter, LinkedIn, and Failing in Public Twitter is dead.

I Walked Across Spain Last month I walked across Spain, east to west, following the historic Camino de Santiago, a historic pilgrimage route travelled by thousands of people a year.

Thoughtful Professional Writing The hard part about writing is thinking.

Transactionalism vs Respect Consider these two statements: Can I ask you for your help?

Hammers and Nailguns People often ask me, "What is your tool for?"

Python Support is Socially Complex Supporting a Python product is difficult because it’s hard to draw a line between your product and the rest of the ecosystem.

Cloud Computing is Broken Famous Quote This AWS API is so intuitive it's awesome.

Venting and Constructive Communication Constructive conversation and venting are mostly distinguished by asking ourselves "Will these words help me achieve my goal?"

SatCamp Retrospective This week I attended SatCamp, a small unconference focused on the Satellite / Earth Observation / Remote sensing industry held in Boulder Colorado.

How I Almost Quit My Job, and How Being Selfish Saved Me Every human being has a basic instinct to help each other out -- Mark Watney, The Martian Leverage and the loss of ego Positions of leverage feel great, but result in self-sacrifice and burnout.

What does Pangeo 2.0 Look Like?