Dog math: if I have one ball, it fits in my mouth and thus have one ball.
If I have two balls, they both fit on my mouth, and thus I have two balls.
If I have three balls, one won't fit in with the others and thus I have 0 balls and must yell about this inconvenience.
I would love to see a standard arise for .agents/ for all agentic coding tools.
This annoys the piss out of me:
.claude
.opencode
.github/copilot-instructuons
Just released a new version of typerdrive! Added files manager and refactored cache to use diskcache (for now).
Check it out!
github.com/dusktreader/...
@talkpython.fm I just checked out `diskcache` this weekend to add caching in my library.
I'm disappointed to find it has no updates since 2023. It doesn't provide type hints, either.
I'm a bit disappointed that it was promoted when it doesn't seem to be production ready.
If you figure this out, let me know!
Since doctors can charge us for missed visits if we are more than 10 minutes late, we should get a discount when they make us wait way past time, too. Right?
When will devs learn to stop trashing languages they don't personally like. If millions of people are using a language it's probably not "ass", it just doesn't _please_ you.
Except for PHP and Perl. Fuck them 😂
Letting Earl go was 1000% the right move. I thought we should have tried to retain Sherman, but his price tag was reeeeeealy steep to re-sign
Yeah, I thought letting Golden go was a huge mistake
@brianokken.bsky.social I heard you talking about blog hosting. I used markdown files with mkdocs-material hosted on github pages. Comments enabled with giscus. I don't write near enough,but I like the setup. If you're interested: github.com/dusktreader/...
Painkiller by Judas Priest is the most complete metal song ever written.
AI is good at answering software developer interview questions but not at writing real-world code.
Which confirms all my prior beliefs about software developer interview questions.
Today, we’re announcing the preview release of ty, an extremely fast type checker and language server for Python, written in Rust.
In early testing, it's 10x, 50x, even 100x faster than existing type checkers. (We've seen >600x speed-ups over Mypy in some real-world projects.)
Currently using a combination of basedpyright and my in CI and my editor. Would love to replace them both with a single, faster tool!
I'm excited to show off the project I've been working on the last couple of weeks:
Introducing Typerdrive: Develop API-Connected Typer Apps at Lightspeed
blog.dusktreader.dev/2025/05/13/i...
#python
Also, learn to say "I'm sorry" without a "but"
sqlalchemy 3.0, anyone? 😝
I got tired of setting up #Python projects manually, so I built out a template using copier. It builds a fresh project locally AND pushes it to GitHub with a docs site on GitHub pages. Now I can bootstrap a new Python project in seconds!
Check out my blog post to learn more: bit.ly/dusktreader-...
If there is one thing I hope the left learns in my lifetime, it’s that to become hegemonic, we have to become normie.
We won’t convince people to dramatically change their aesthetic or cultural attitudes; we will succeed when we articulate our values in forms they are most likely to appreciate.
This is a damn good idea!
sunk-cost fallacy (n.) -- "the phenomenon whereby a person is reluctant to abandon a strategy or course of action because they have invested heavily in it, even when it is clear that abandonment would be more beneficial"
The crossover meme we needed today 🫠:
Welp... got rejected after the fifth round (3 tech interviews, a takehome project, and a recruiter screening) after spending 5 weeks going through the process... on April Fools day. Really thought I had this one. After so much investment, feels like a real gut-punch. Back to the grindstone, I guess
Something I just learned about and wrote up this week. Shebang calling uv and deps in comments a la PEP 722: blog.dusktreader.dev/2025/03/29/s...
This is awesome news! Thanks for all the hard work on this PEP. This is a huge step for Python packaging
My last post motivated me to set up a blog. Check out my first post here: blog.dusktreader.dev/2025/03/29/s...
#python #uv
At first I was very skeptical about the `# /// script` syntax, but after trying this out, I'm on-board. This is so convenient!
#python #uv
Even better, I can run this script on any system that has uv installed. I don't need to worry about python versions, globally installed dependencies, or anything like that!
Now, I just run it, it jams a bunch of test data into the api I'm testing, and drops me into a REPL where I can make additional queries.
