I was recently diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disorder called anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. It's a "disease of chaos" that completely upturned my life for a couple months. I wrote a blog about it that goes into more detail and discusses prognosis. :-) burntsushi.net/encephalitis/

Hyrule temple my beloved how many hours have I spent inside you how may hours have I launched and been launched in your nether tomb

More Pixi stakeholders! Thanks Pavel and @quantco.com for being true Pixi & @conda-forge.org supporters.

Before pixi was around I used mamba to fully automate my IaC workflows. Pixi makes that type of end-to-end automation and reproducibility even easier! Pixi isn't well know in the infrastructure space, but it should be - Pixi is the one package manager you can use across your entire stack.

Nothing says LLM security theater like Claude Code asking for permission to run `cat filename` in the terminal to read a file in the project folder. It has tools for that, but sometimes, like a human, it prefers the hard way. We are still obviously in the early days of all this mess.

I can't understate how good of a job the @inkandswitch.com folks did at this Automerge website. Wow, holy shit automerge.org And the fact that you can *interact* with the visual demo at the top? This is the new high bar for a technical website. Holy moly.

@julianhofer.eu Thanks for "Scripting Is More Fun With Nushell", helped me a bunch with ideas on what a clean language should look like. julianhofer.eu/blog/2025/nu...

“Raise your hand if you were able to install everything with pixi and run the simulation-based inference tutorial notebook.” github.com/cranmer/sbi-...

As AWS open source just turned our request down, anyone have contacts at Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure who thinks they might be interested in donating cloud credits for an educational tutorial at SciPy 2025?

Marimo is an excellent project. Powerful like Jupyter and reactive like Excel. It also fully supports Pixi 🚀

While I've been attending @scipyconf.bsky.social since 2019 and helping to organize SciPy since 2021, #SciPy2025 will be my first time teaching a tutorial at the conference! Hope to see you there, and looking forward to great experiences with the tutorial participants.

The times are a-changing A US colleague just warned me that 'AI is reading every word' when I emailed on the current trumpian disasters for US science (indicating it might cause trouble at future US border crossings) Wow, feels like we're moving back to USSR times with self-imposed censorship

The tj-actions/changed-files compromise prompted me to write up how I secure GitHub Actions workflows using SHAs without maintenance pain Go from insecure to security conscious in < 15 minutes, including configuring automatic updates through Dependabot or Renovate michaelheap.com/pin-your-git...

I've seen a lot of Python folks getting super excited about `uv run --with ....` and I get it now. In @conda.org world, you can do the same with @prefix.dev Pixi! A colleague wanted me to debug something with PyArrow on my system and all I had to do was: ``` $ pixi exec -s pyarrow python ``` 🤯

🎉 Say hello to py-rattler-build! 📦 Now you can build conda packages directly in Python! It's never been easier. Get started today: rattler.build/latest/refe... Available on conda-forge and PyPI! 🚀

🚀 Great news for Windows users! The latest version of PyTorch is back! 🥳 🙏 Huge thanks to the @condaforge community for fixing the builds. 🧑‍💻 Installing PyTorch just got a whole lot easier! pixi.sh/latest/feat...

Come join our colleague Julian at this meetup! 🎤 Pixi, Conda and the Future of Python development! 📅 Feb 6, 5:30 PM 📍 In-person in Munich 🇩🇪 Please sign up at voxel51.com/computer-vi...

Super helpful guide for installing PyTorch using pixi from @prefix.dev prefix-dev.github.io/pixi/v0.39.4... This is point of confusion for a lot of people so it’s great that there is official documentation now.

Now out: version 0.101.0 of Nu. This release adds a simplified startup configuration, several new commands, and additional tools to introspect the Nushell engine. www.nushell.sh/blog/2024-12... Happy holidays from the Nushell team!

The Python package sbi is now on conda-forge. github.com/conda-forge/... With @prefix.dev's pixi you can now get a full CUDA environment (pixi.sh/dev/features...) and sbi installed and ready to go in under 60 seconds (maybe under 30) with 3 commands (if you count your text editor as 1).