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Agentic development has fundamentally changed the software ecosystem.

How do we model a political system?

In the early days of Python’s life, when it was newly hatched, one of the primary selling points was Python’s ability to fit into a systems programming stack, to interface fairly-cleanly with C-based programming.

I expected to cry in Portland.

This post is a rough recreation of a post from someone else that I saw years ago and now can’t find.

I first read Guy Kawasaki’s “The Art of the Start” when I was in college, and didn’t really know if startups were going to be my whole career, or if I was going to ever start one.

I’ve never met a manager who loves “perf review season”, and the way most companies run their perfomance reviews it’s pretty easy to understand why.

It is very hard for the average resident of a U.S. city to know what’s going on with their civic government.

The Athleticism So, it turns out golf is a sport.

I have the courage of my convictions, but not the courage of my perceptions.

Note: The State of California calls it’s ballot initiatives “Propositions”.

This post owes its inspiration, as so many posts do, to a tweet from patio11.

In 2017, I attended one of the first Arena Summits in Raleigh, NC.

Growing up, I was incredibly lucky to have regular access to two staggeringly beautiful places.

Many of us have more free time than we expected right now.

Every engineer I’ve met falls somewhere on this spectrum: One side is Maker, the people who like engineering because they like building things.

I’ve been thinking about minimalism wrong for a few years now, and it took my first trip to Japan for me to realize it.

This blog post was supposed to come out two years ago in response to, I think, this article.

I think there’s a secret to the most recent run of Mickey Mouse.

As I mentioned in my last post, I recently moved from being a Senior Software Engineer to a Team Lead.

In November, I was promoted from Senior Software Engineer to Team Lead.

As I started writing this post, I got blocked by the dang title.

Mastodon is currently my favorite social network.

“If you’re a programmer you should attend technical conferences to further your career.”

There are many challenges to running an Open Source organization, but the one that I have personally felt the pain of again and again is that our tooling is awful.

Python is the best technical community I’ve seen, and close to the best community I’ve seen at this scale.

Hey #Python friends!

There is a recurring villain in the Terry Pratchett novels called The Auditors.

I think people have an impression that I make lots of contributions to Open Source (only recently true), and that therefore I am a master of navigating the steps contributing to Open Source requires (not at all true).

During the PyCon 2016 Sprints, I was made a Core Contributor to the BeeWare project, and was given the ‘commit bit’ on Batavia, an implementation of the Python virtual machine written in Javascript.

The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is the non-profit that owns python.org, helps run PyPI, and makes sure PyCon happens.