I put together these annotated slides from my five minute lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, using the latest iteration of my annotated presentation tool.
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I presented this lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, attempting to summarize the last …
Glaucous-winged Gull, Brown Pelican, Snowy Egret, Canada Goose, in Los Angeles River, CA, USI’m heading home from PyCon US today so I went on a last morning walk to try and spot a pelican. I saw one! Didn’t get a great photo of that, but …
GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source
Terence Eden continues his coverage of the NHS’ poorly considered decision to close down access to their open source repositories in response to vulnerabilities reported to them…
In preparation for a lightning talk I’m giving at PyCon US this afternoon I decided to figure out how many names OpenClaw has actually had since that first commit back in November.
Thanks to this first_line_history.py tool (code here) the answer, …
[…] in the last 10 years I’ve learned to really love and respect CSS as a technology.
So I decided years ago that I wanted to react to “CSS is hard” by getting better at CSS and taking it seriously as a technology, instead of devaluing it. Doing…
Release: inaturalist-clumper 0.1
Part of the infrastructure I use for publishing my iNaturalist sightings on my blog. I’ve been running this in production for a few weeks now, inspiring some iterations on how it works, so I decide…
Western Gull, Rock Pigeon, in Los Angeles Area (custom), CA, USI went for a bird walk in the morning before PyCon, and we spotted a local seagull enjoying a Starbucks.
Tool: QR code generator
Claude helped me build this tool for creating QR codes, for both text/URLs and for connecting to WiFi networks.
Tags: vibe-coding, tools, generative-ai, ai, llms
Release: datasette-llm-limits 0.1a0
This plugin works in conjunction with datasette-llm and datasette-llm-accountant to let you configure a per-user (or global) spending limit for LLM usage inside of Datasette. Configuration looks…
This Mitchell Hashimoto quote about Bun migrating from Zig to Rust reminded me of a similar conversation I had at a conference last week.
I was talking to someone who worked for a medium sized technology company with a pair of legacy/legendary iPh…