This is a thoughtful reaction to my predictions piece and worth reading https://hachyderm.io/@pythonbynight/115861806434151702

RE: https://social.northbaypython.org/@NorthBayPython/115861794229890398 As you head into the weekend, think about sharing something cool with all the excellent folks who attend North Bay Python. I know you all have some amazing talk ideas banging around — I’ve been on committees for half a […]

To all the open source developers who put hours and hours of their lives into a project they built, put it out into the world, and now it sits with approximately zero users.

I follow Simon's blog (@simon ), as I find it very informative, thorough, and enlightening. His most recent post on LLM predictions for 2026 did catch my eye and I had a few thoughts I wanted to capture. Keep in mind, they are not repudiations. I happen to have more of a fascination with […]

hello! chris is on vacation (no new website yet), but apparently time waits for no conference, and it's time for us to ask you what you want to talk about! Do you want to speak at California's hyper-local barn-based Python conference? Please send us your talk ideas! […]

hello! chris is on vacation (no new website yet), but apparently time waits for no conference, and it's time for us to ask you what you want to talk about! Do you want to speak at California's hyper-local barn-based #Python conference? Please send us your talk ideas! 2026.northbaypython.org #NBPy

I follow Simon's blog (@simon ), as I find it very informative, thorough, and enlightening. His most recent post on LLM predictions for 2026 did catch my eye and I had a few thoughts I wanted to capture. Keep in mind, they are not repudiations. I happen to have more of a fascination with […]

Hadn't spent much time online today due to work and also creating a blog post about some television shows I watch ... quite an awful time to post anything, but oh well, maybe it serves as a reprieve for some... ... in which I don't even mention LLMs (out loud) […]

Hadn't spent much time online today due to work and also creating a blog post about some television shows I watch ... quite an awful time to post anything, but oh well, maybe it serves as a reprieve for some... ... in which I don't even mention LLMs (out loud) […]

Not going to announce it properly until tomorrow now, but if you'd rather be thinking about what you'd like to say at #nbpy instead of thinking about *all this*, go find our CFP: https://2026.northbaypython.org

I saw a bunch of people saying they want AI to improve govt bureaucracy. My dude, the problem has never been the technology

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/115848969233248224 And if you're not sure where or how: https://getblogging.org/

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@hub/115845865600763244 Just finished reading the piece on the food delivery hoax debunking from Casey Newton. It ends with this very appropriate warning: "With AI tools at their fingertips, hoaxsters can make those lies travel even faster." I scrolled down a little […]

[US Pol, politics] Echoes of the Gulf war when I was in my 20s... Back then I was a bit more naive and less engaged, so it all seemed surreal, but a bit far away... This time, it feels sadistic and infuriating. It's a distraction from so many other things we should be building towards. Sigh...

I'm a day late to my reflection on the year ahead, but hey, better late than never! I figure I'll likely keep my attention on the kind of writing I did to close out the year... not because I think I have anything novel or authoritative to say on the subject--rather, I think the conversation is […]

I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...

I'm a day late to my reflection on the year ahead, but hey, better late than never! I figure I'll likely keep my attention on the kind of writing I did to close out the year... not because I think I have anything novel or authoritative to say on the subject--rather, I think the conversation is […]

New blog: The Next Thing Will Not Be Big https://blog.glyph.im/2026/01/the-next-thing-will-not-be-big.html

As seen on a walk around Silver Lake Reservoir earlier today. I see what you did there ... #la

I tried to do one of those "year in review" type of posts... It was going to have "sections"... and cover different "things" ... My ONE section got too long, so I made it its own post... who knows if I'll get to the rest of the things... 😅 Anyway, here's the stuff I listened to this year […]

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@pythonbynight/115754461619007173 Mario's talk is very good, I recommend you watch it. I recommend you read along with his transcription of A(i) Modest Proposal for the first half. Takeaway quote for me: «Both ["AI" booster and doomer] scenarios are, to put it mildly […]

@xgranade @glyph I gave a talk a couple months back where I updated "A Modest Proposal" to illustrate the rather alarming state we're in re: AI Industry. This was within a conference where several talks, including a keynote, were focused on how to implement LLM tools into your workflows. The […]

RE: https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/12/19/implementing-encrypted-messaging-over-activitypub/ Big news for the #fediverse! End-to-end encryption is coming to #activitypub. @swf with support from @sovtechfund is coordinating two interoperable implementations. Bonfire is proud to be one of […]

Mario Munoz ruminates of the cost of doing #ai business - with a look at the 3rd world trainers who suffer psychological damage at the hands of tech giants. #artificialintelligence https://pythonbynight.com/blog/the-cost-of-doing-ai-business

Last night, my family and I went to Descanso Gardens in La Cañada (LA County) for an annual event I've been wanting to go to for some time, but hadn't gotten around to it. This year, it is the Enchanted Forest of Light. The beautiful garden is arranged in […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

i started trying to write a small site in Django recently and I think I'm really enjoying it? I've failed to learn Rails a few times but my Django site is set up so that there's a `models.py` with all my models, `views.py` with all my views and it feels easier for me to find things than it was […]

Found a real thrift shop gem here!

RE: https://social.coop/@brainwane/115702812318775830 —

🎶 I've been listening to LUX by Rosalía pretty consistently over the last week and it is an audacious piece of music. The dynamics of her voice, the swelling of symphonic sounds, and sometimes an irreverent bit of whimsical chatter--it is an auditory treat. No wonder it's NPR's album of the […]

it's always 'you should consider taking medication for your adhd' and never 'thank you for doing the first half of all these projects'

What are the chances I could head over to LA on Christmas Day to watch a screening of Princess Mononoke? 😁 Probably slim... But no reason why I can't catch one or two of these at some point! https://secretlosangeles.com/22-studio-ghibli-film-festival/ #ghibli #la

Although I generally prefer melancholic whimsy or humor in my writing, my latest tends to only keep the melancholy... sorry about that. I blame the subject... I'll return to my semi-regularly scheduled whimsy at a later date. https://pythonbynight.com/blog/the-cost-of-doing-ai-business

I thoroughly recommend reading all of Cory Doctorow's recent speech on AI skepticism, it's crammed with new arguments and interesting new ways of thinking about these problems https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington

RE: https://flipboard.com/@axiosnews/economy-business-07hdemllz/-/a-OvEt3lCIQFSal81gIBj67g%3Aa%3A2150299410-%2F0 Amodei: "I warn about these things not to be a prophet of doom, but warning about them is the first step toward solving them..." Me: And the second step toward solving them is […]

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@wagtail/115656868434836876 I'm willing to entertain the idea that there are benefits to be had from LLM-assisted engineering--though the arguments from proponents tend to be along the lines of "you're holding it wrong" (i.e., using the wrong tools, models, workflows […]

I sometimes see people describing resistance to LLM assisted coding as gatekeeping and I get that, software engineering culture is absolutely rife with gatekeeping, I quite literally dedicated dedicated my career to developer education because I want more people to have access to these […]

We just celebrated Black Friday in memory of Rebecca Black who invented Friday back in 2011.

I'd been putting off writing this blog post for a while, but finally got around to it--wherein I draw from a film I've always revered to make observations about technology and technologists during these polarizing times... https://pythonbynight.com/blog/princess-mononoke

I'd been putting off writing this blog post for a while, but finally got around to it--wherein I draw from a film I've always revered to make observations about technology and technologists during these polarizing times... https://pythonbynight.com/blog/princess-mononoke

I just do not have the time to write anything long-form about this but the ongoing Mozilla AI debacle is really indicative of a very, very troubling aspect of the broader AI debacle, which is that a strong majority of even the *actually* well-intentioned, smart leaders in tech have had their […]

HTTP has a new method: QUERY. Tl;dr: GET with a body. https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-safe-method-w-body-14.html #ietf

📺 I watched the Selena documentary on Netflix last night. Left me doing some unplanned for introspection... so wrote a quick post about that: https://pythonbynight.com/til/watch-selena-y-los-dinos #selena

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@pythonbynight/115550151891219573 It was a tie for WebiMage 🧙‍♂️ vs 🖼️ WebImage I guess I'll go with WebImage but keep some puns and references to the mage in my documentation 😁 Also, just released v0.3.0 - html snippets now saved to txt, md, or html - more […]

I've been wanting to add pictures to my post last month about my visit to Honduras, but it felt kind of daunting. So I built a python library, published and released it on PyPI ⁉️ Maybe it would have been easier to just add the pictures manually? 🤔 NAH! I was able to use my new tool and it was […]

A couple of weeks ago, I wondered if there was a python package for quickly resizing images for usage on the web. I didn't find exactly what I was looking for. So I wrote a little library to do just that and published it on PyPI. I'll write more about that later. But in the meantime, I wanted […]

A couple of weeks ago, I wondered if there was a python package for quickly resizing images for usage on the web. I didn't find exactly what I was looking for. So I wrote a little library to do just that and published it on PyPI. I'll write more about that later. But in the meantime, I wanted […]

I'm on a bit of a roll lately with posts. 😅 I was perusing some RSS reader options and happened upon a "1-click" install option... It was so straightforward to set up that I even found time to write about it! https://pythonbynight.com/blog/rss-is-the-best #rss #FreshRSS

In which, on the occasion of my 3-year migration anniversary and the release of Mastodon 4.5, I assemble all my arguments as to why Mastodon is great and why anyone else on a service that’s becoming less fun/safe/useful should migrate to Mastodon and do it now, in late 2025 […]