Entries tagged “thoughts”

A Case for Upserts, written on February 16, 2014
A Europe For Our Children, written on May 18, 2016
A Fresh Look at Rust, written on October 1, 2014
A Recap, written on January 1, 2011
About the Lack of Updates, written on August 27, 2012
Accidental Spending: A Case For an Open Source Tax?, written on September 19, 2024
App Assisted Contact Tracing, written on April 3, 2020
Application Mimetypes and Encodings, written on July 19, 2013
Appreciating Design, written on February 11, 2012
Austria: A Fearful Country In Need Of A Vision, written on February 26, 2024
Battlelog: Modern Web Applications are Here, written on November 15, 2011
Be Careful About What You Dislike, written on November 5, 2016
Be Humble, written on February 5, 2021
Beautiful Native Libraries, written on August 18, 2013
Bitcoin is Not a Good Consumer Product, written on April 13, 2015
Bundleless: Not Doing Things Makes You Fast, written on November 30, 2023
Codec Confusion in Python, written on August 11, 2012
Computing in Perspective, written on November 26, 2010
Death by Million Cubes, written on November 12, 2012
Dependency Risk and Funding, written on January 10, 2022
Diversity in Technology and Open Source, written on June 5, 2017
Don't Panic! The Hitchhiker's Guide to Unwinding, written on October 30, 2014
Emotional Programming in Open Source, written on November 28, 2013
EuroRust 2023 Reflections: What's a Conference For?, written on October 14, 2023
Everybody is More Complex Than They Seem, written on February 9, 2023
FSL: A Better Business/Open Source Balance Than AGPL, written on September 23, 2024
FSL: A License For the Bazaar, Not the Cathedral, written on November 19, 2023
I Think AI Would Kill my Wife, written on February 17, 2023
Lessons from a Pessimist: Make Your Pessimism Productive, written on March 20, 2023
Licensing in a Post Copyright World, written on July 23, 2013
Make It Ephemeral: Software Should Decay and Lose Data, written on October 30, 2024
Micropackages and Open Source Trust Scaling, written on March 24, 2016
More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3, written on January 5, 2014
My Favorite Database is the Network, written on November 17, 2013
On Countries, Citizenships, Residence and Paying Taxes, written on August 9, 2015
On Error Handling in Rust, written on October 16, 2014
On Programming Communities, written on February 13, 2014
On Tech Debt: My Rust Library is now a CDO, written on March 26, 2024
Open Source and Games, written on December 24, 2010
Open Source Financing, written on August 27, 2012
Open Source Migrates With Emotional Distress, written on December 28, 2019
Open Source, SaaS and Monetization, written on November 4, 2019
Playground Wisdom: Threads Beat Async/Await, written on November 18, 2024
Porting to Python 3 Redux, written on May 21, 2013
Post Covid Remote Work Doesn't Work As Well, written on November 1, 2023
Progress, written on September 3, 2024
Python and the Principle of Least Astonishment, written on July 9, 2011
Python on Wheels, written on January 27, 2014
Python Packaging: Hate, hate, hate everywhere, written on June 22, 2012
Python, the Web and Little Things on my Mind, written on January 22, 2011
Revenge of the Types, written on August 24, 2014
Samsung Pay's MST Transactions and Merchant's Ability to Detect “Cloned” Magstripe Tracks, written on August 31, 2015
Say “Yes” to JavaScript, written on July 1, 2013
Skin in the Game, written on March 31, 2024
SQL is Agile, written on December 29, 2012
Start Writing More Classes, written on February 13, 2013
Stateless and Proud in the Realtime World, written on August 5, 2012
Stop Being Cute and Clever, written on December 9, 2013
Such a Little Thing: The Semicolon in Rust, written on October 18, 2012
Temporary Contact Number based Contact Tracing, written on April 9, 2020
The End of Safe Harbor and a Scary Path Forward, written on October 6, 2015
The Future of Payments and Open Source Support, written on November 2, 2014
The Inevitability of Mixing Open Source and Money, written on October 14, 2024
The Life and Death of Open Source Companies, written on December 25, 2023
The Problem with Implicit Scoping in CoffeeScript, written on December 22, 2011
The Python I Would Like To See, written on August 16, 2014
Thoughts on Python 3, written on December 7, 2011
UCS vs UTF-8 as Internal String Encoding, written on January 9, 2014
Uninitialized Memory: Unsafe Rust is Too Hard, written on January 30, 2022
Unintended Affordances (or why I believe encrypting everything is a bad idea), written on April 28, 2015
Untyped Python: The Python That Was, written on December 1, 2023
Updated Thoughts on Trust Scaling, written on July 29, 2019
What if My Tribe Is Wrong?, written on November 8, 2024
What is Self Hosted? What is a Stack?, written on June 26, 2024
What was my 2012, written on January 20, 2013
Why I Don't Hate Git: Hidden Consistency, written on February 17, 2015
ZeroMQ: Disconnects are Good for You, written on June 26, 2012
“Eppur si muove!”* – Dealing with Timezones in Python, written on July 15, 2011