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the slop that you didn't know you needed :) thanks!

Last night, I wanted to build a casual "compare frontier LLMs" page as a Pokédex. I went off the rails a bit and ended up with an entire game where claude opus and gpt-5 can fight …

I wrote this and I’m happy to answer any questions about savings, infrastructure, how we built and tested this in our environment, or open sourcing it with AWS. Repo is here: https…

Yes, dataclasses are great. I often use them as a pretty clear and adopted way to handle serialization and deserialization, configs, etc.

Very cool. We use Tiktoken and I'd love to see the performance impact. Pretty great decision to make it drop-in compatible.

I love the visual approaches used to explain these concepts. Words and math hurt my brain, but when accompanied by charts and diagrams, my brain hurts much less.

I'm also interested in the details on how this works in practice. I know that there was a front page post a few weeks ago about how Cursor worked, and there was a short blurb about…

This is great. pip-tools` is so valuable right now in helping mitigate these dependency tree issues. I'd love to see some form of support in core Python. I really hope this becomes…

Hah, yes. I used to work at a company that sold a popular DNA product. I built part of the GDPR data deletion pipeline. During my last week there, I submitted a request to delete m…

I liked Scala and was excited about learning and using it when it was picking up steam many years back. Unfortunately, it felt like there wasn't as much traction, and Scala has bee…

I feel like Java has calmed down a bit and is more focused and thriving in its niche with enterprise systems. I recall the days when we believed that Java and the JVM could solve a…

Neat idea! If you can, someone figure out how to get Nextdoor animal-posters to join and participate, this would be really useful. Last time I saw a dog on the street, I pulled ove…

This is pretty exciting. DuckDB is already proving to be a powerful tool in the industry. Previously there was a strong trend of using simple S3-backed blob storage with Parquet an…

Personally I never found myself using my NFC payment watch. It felt like if I was venturing far enough to the store, I'm just going to bring my phone with me anyways. I wonder if t…

Very exciting! I've since left the Pebble ecosystem for Garmin/Withings but I have always had a very fond and memorable experience wearing Pebble watches.

I really enjoy writing Python, but I’ve noticed a recurring pattern in organizations where it slowly turns from a productive tool into a frustrating mess. The more Python spreads a…