I am so deep in the AI this week I had AI write a feature and raise a pull request but another AI did a code review so I told my AI to respond to that AI and they had a disagreement so I’m just watching, 🍿 , and paying for tokens. What is engineering in 2026.

Ok, hear me out. They play 45 minutes. No stoppage. No ads. Then you get 30 mins break, ads, have dinner whatever. Dancing. Then another 45 minutes. That would be an amazing sport to watch.

Want to work in the Microsoft rust compiler? Be the Microsoft person in the rust community? In Prague or can be in Prague? (And have me as your security pm. Which shouldn’t put you off.)

Well I guess this is the start of the “find out” phase www.404media.co/exposed-molt...

Turns out the sorts of people who put their ClawdBot on the Internet are also the sorts of people who put their unsecured Crypto frontends online too. Max from Falkenstein, DE— secure your stuff better 🤦🏻‍♂️

Grabbed this nugget of slop from LinkedIn because I can’t stop laughing. Remember when ol’ “Meat Pies” was PM? Things have gone downhill since we let the Prawns run the country

Doesn’t get more PNW than a restaurant like this

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If you’re staying in a hotel in the US and your room thermostat is in Celsius and you’re wondering “who did this”. Yeah 🙋🏻‍♂️

Also, good evening Portland (I think, I was trying to guess with the bridges)

There used to be a photo of the President above the escalator as you arrive at TBIT in LAX. Since I’ve been flying to LAX for 20+ years, I’ve seen GW up there, Obama, Trump, then Biden. They took it down last year

The problem with being a plane nerd is whilst the other passengers are like “big plane goes brrrr” I’m thinking oh f’ck VH-OQC is the one where a few weeks ago “shortly before landing, a piece of the left wing tore off”. Lucky I believe in fate 🤷🏻‍♂️

Beach is closed but still keeping an eye out with the kids

Couldn’t believe my favourite band (The head and the heart) were playing only an hour from me in Australia. Went to see them as an early birthday present, they were doing vocal warmups outside and said hello to meet me. Best birthday present! The nicest people ♥️ @headandtheheart.bsky.social

New year, new website, new me! Ok, well the last part hasn’t happened yet. New font face at least. Blog posts look awesome on mobile tonybaloney.github.io

Got my kids hooked on the Broken Sword series starting with 5. They’ve completed 1 and now about to finish 2. I don’t know how to break the news about 3 and 4

Having fun making temperature readouts for my friends microbrewery from old arduino boards and some terrible soldering. Used CAT6 to breakout from the onewire bus 🚎

🏏 I think England at least deserve an applause for staying sober long enough to win 1 test. #ashes

Wrapped up the first day back at work with a quick paddle

Deleted my Twitter/X account. Should have done it a while ago. If I pop up again it'll be someone pretending to be me.

Finally did the Bondi - Coogee walk (and back). Entertaining to watch the tourists walk between two “do no swim here” signs and throw themselves in a rip 🤦🏻‍♂️ I could not patrol this beach SMH

When I first joined Bluesky, for some reason the algorithm wanted to show me bears (not the kind in the woods). So my “discover” page was a big nope. Finally I’ve got it to show me what I want! — Civil infrastructure — No more hairy dudes thank you. More trains, railways, and tunnels 👍

Claude you're killing me.

Is everyone in 2026 yet?

What was supposed to be a quiet evening on the beach to see in NYE was stopped after someone washed up on the shore unconscious. I sprinted to the surf club to get the medical kits and several other off duty lifeguards & doctors ran in to do CPR & defib until the ambulance & helicopter arrived.

Working hard

After 4 years of following me around the house whenever I’m carrying food, my dog finally reaped his reward as I tripped and dropped an entire ham and cheese sandwich on the floor. Who’s laughing now?

My commute into Sydney takes about 2 hours. Some crazy cat decided to do it on foot/kayak. It took 3 days but it is an eye opening reminder of how amazing the national parks are if you take the time youtu.be/pF2aU4YLRY8?...

About 100 barrows in. Not a lot of skin left on my hands 🙌

Anyone got some good podcast episodes to listen to? I have a lot of dirt to move and it’s boring as hell

Sitting up waiting for Santa or until someone lets him eat the carrot we left out

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Just opened the Fujitsu ACs to clean the filters and discovered they both have USB ports and you can buy $100 home-assistant compatible controllers. Finally, doing chores paid off!

PyCon US talk is drafted. Really, really hope I get this one accepted...

Age verification was easy for Bluesky. Took my photo, went good Lord you look old and tired. Good luck. Then deleted the photo. ♥️

Combined Python 3.14's perf support with Rust's and errr... I'm not entirely sure what's happening in this 50MB flamegraph, @pablogsal.com is red bad or good?

How a $47 Uber in San Francisco becomes an $82 Uber...

We can all breathe a sigh of relief that the 6/7th December weekend is done.

Amazing.

"tell me all the times where this file changed in complexity, LoC or MI over the past 1000 commits" = 0.5 secs. Nice

Accidentally got on a train headed to 1997

If anyone is wondering why I'm chasing perf on complexity analysis. I plan on analyzing "some" Python code. A LOT of code.

Got wily v2 down to 5 seconds at 20-25 commits/sec to analyze the last 100 commits of django. That's 200x faster than the old wily (which was slow I admit). Django has 35,000 commits spanning 10+ years so you can guess which benchmark I'm chasing. There are way too many idle CPU cores 🤔 faster!!

I’m using Django’s source code as the benchmark for how fast I can get wily to run all complexity analysers. Initial pass (500k LoC) is now <1 sec. I then goes through the history at about 14 commits/sec. Main reason it’s slower than Ruff is because ruff doesn’t serialise anything to disk

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Please don’t fix typos in code comments for open source projects. It’s a breadcrumb that the code was made by a human.

Learnt this week that rewriting things in rust doesn’t magically make it 100x faster. You still have to engineer it properly, profile it and write sensible algorithms.

Just tested it on Django. Takes 5 seconds to analyse the entire codebase (500k LoC across 3,000 files). Definitely could be faster.

Rewriting Wily's code complexity analyzers in Rust. The Cyclomatic Complexity, MI, Halstead and raw harvesters are going to use Ruff's AST and Parser crates instead of Radon. It is (much) faster. I'm doing this because I have a lot of code to analyze. github.com/tonybaloney/...

Flashback to my first ever PyCon US talk 6 years ago. It’s about code complexity. I’m really proud of the talk, but I was super nervous at the time. I am (still) really passionate about this topic and the tool, so was happy to just share my work and have folks listen. youtu.be/dqdsNoApJ80?...