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Mike Driscoll invited me onto The Python Show to talk about the Python Developer Tooling Handbook.

Hugo Bowne-Anderson and Thomas Wiecki invited me onto the season two finale of Show Us Your (Agent) Skills, alongside Chip Huyen.

I spend most of my day on video calls, and I own several microphones: my laptop mic, a webcam, a USB mic, a headset.

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Boris Cherny, who built Claude Code at Anthropic, recently shared advice he received from Anthropic co-founder Ben Mann: Don’t build for the model of today, build for the model 6 months from now.

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I’ve been relying on Claude Code more and more since March 2025, not just for development but for all things computer automation.

Chat I subscribe to ChatGPT Plus and using 5.2 Thinking for most of my chat sessions.

Years ago, I published a collection of interviews with people I respected about whether a young person should pursue a Ph.D.

I wanted to view my webcam feed from a browser on my local network.

Bob Belderbos invited me on the Pybites podcast to talk about my career, the Python Developer Tooling Handbook, uv, photography, and more.

I’m very interested in how people are using LLMs to augment their work, especially in software development.

In this episode, Professor Robert Ghrist from the University of Pennsylvania discusses his beautiful new linear algebra book created with the help of the Claude LLM in just 55 days.

Over the last 10 years, I’ve become more interested in the art of photography.

I dumped all my posts from the last 14 years into Claude and asked it to make any conclusions about me from them.

Last year, I invested in a Synology NAS as a home server and backup drive.

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I recently joined the Spotify Audio Intelligence team as a machine learning infrastructure engineer.

Much of my career has been focused on helping machine learning researchers get the data they need, where they need it, and when they need it.

I started college as a physics major, but I switched to computer science my sophomore year when I realized I didn’t want to take more lab classes.

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I consider myself a productive and organized person.

When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done,” give him a lollipop.

I’ve been a professional Python developer for over a decade.

Good ideas are hard to come by, but I find I’m often looking in the wrong places.

2025 Launched pydevtools.com, the first comprehensive resource on Python developer tooling; now over over 43k words and growing!

This is a reflection I’ve carried around for years: the evolution of my career interests and how they relate (or don’t relate) to my core passion, which has always been math.

In 1986, Fred Brooks published “No Silver Bullet—Essence and Accident in Software Engineering” where he argues that there is no silver bullet that “to make software costs drop as rapidly as computer hardware costs do”.

I started lifting weights for the first time in my life four years ago, as a 32-year-old.

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Over the last 6 years, I’ve been able to help the teams I have been part of develop guidelines for code review.

As someone providing engineering and infrastructure support for a small data science team, I’ve seen firsthand how the right tool can dramatically improve team productivity.

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Weather forecasts (like WRF, HRRR, etc.) are high-dimensional gridded data.

On January 7, 2011, I tweeted, “Trying to learn Python.

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Git has a git check-ignore -v <pathname> option which will explain to you why a given file is ignored by the repository.

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Recently, I’ve had my first opportunity to dive into the Go programming language.

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In the great #general room There was idle chatter And a red build And a gif of- The cow jumping over the moon And there were three little interns sitting with mentors And two little commits And a backlog of tickets And a little blocker And a fresh Docker…

I’ve been working remotely for tech startups for six years, so I am sharing some tips for those working from home for the first time.

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I’m always annoyed when the pre-flight instructions inform us that the airline’s main priority is our safety.

A few weeks back, I was browsing Google Maps and noticed the word “DEMO” written in faint green letters in rural South Sudan.