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

🎉BIG NEWS🎉 Super Sunny World, my NES platformer, is entering the final stages of development! So, it's time for a PRIVATE BETA! If you would like to give feedback and log bugs, please sign up using this link! Beta Testing will being the new year! forms.gle/1sFGnaQiMZpF...

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?...

Confirmed. Both McLarens disqualified from the Las Vegas Grand Prix because the rear skid blocks had too much wear. George is now P2 and Kimi P3. Oscar and Max now on equal points?

"relaxing in the lounge" trying to get a directed graph out of Zork 1. This is so much easier than doing it on dot-matrix paper.

Headed home to Sydney after 2 weeks in the US. Haven’t shared much, but this is what I’ve been up to 🧵

There's a nice visualizer of the Zork runtime here too eblong.com/infocom/visi...

Trolley Problem: Waymo edition. “Look I found a shortcut!” Then sees cable car coming, panics and just blocks the track

I no longer begrudge my US colleagues for getting paid 50% more than me. I just went grocery shopping and everything costs… 50% more 💁🏻‍♂️ (Except beer and chocolate which is cheaper)

Where else www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Day 1 jet lag challenge. Getting up at 6am and staying awake all day to hopefully reset the body clock for day 2 🥱 would normally go for a run but I forgot to pack shoes

All this talk of travel chaos, SFO is empty 🤷🏻‍♂️ walked through CBP in 5 minutes

Last minute travel plans to Seattle. I’ll be there all week and SF next week

I used to listen to this episodes whilst mowing the lawn. The episodes keep getting longer and longer. Now we’re at 4 hours I have to find bigger yard jobs to cover a whole episode

@mkennedy.codes @brianokken.bsky.social @scott.hanselman.com does this guy roam the streets of Portland?

How did I miss putting print statements in tests 🤦🏻‍♂️

Claude AI's Pytest anti-patterns: 1. Using test classes in pytest tests for no reason 2. Putting module fixtures in conftest instead of in the modules 3. Creating long doc strings for test functions 4. Unnecessarily fragile assertions

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TFW you’ve been running a benchmark for an hour, all your CPU cores are at 90+% but the overall benchmark progress is 0% Kill it or wait?

Ok, penalise Lewis Hamilton but nothing for the Dutch Lawnmower? #mexico

Going to report a bug literally any Python project on GitHub to find @hugovk.dev already got there before you, reported it and fixed it. Every time.

Explaining to someone outside of this industry how we meet deadlines by refining the “definition of done” sounds pretty ridiculous when you say it out loud

One thing I love about Open Source is that you can’t hide behind your BS. Don’t tell me it has that feature. I can read the code. It doesn’t. Don’t tell me “we support that” when I can see it clearly doesn’t.

I’ll be live in an hour with Stephen McCullough from NVidia to talking about Open models on serverless GPUs. We’ll be diving into the tech, demos and how to setup autoscaling. www.youtube.com/live/GvZJHHC...

Partner: can you clean the shower & drain whilst I’m out TIL it is possible to clean the shower with a pressure washer but it makes more mess than it cleans.

Ant vs Ant 🐜 . I think I lost this round 🥊

If you demo an AI agent, it must be a weather demo. If you demo a multiagent, it must be a travel booking demo. This is written in law. Do not question it.