Welcome! I'm a software engineer, and I like blogging about Python and programming in general. I'm the author of several open-source Python libraries, including Peewee ORM, Huey task queue, and lots more. Below you can find a list of my most recent blog posts.
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Children's Games
I try all things; I achieve what I can.
A year ago, as I was going through a mound of keepsakes my Mom transferred to my custody (I have reached that age, yes), I came across a little book I made in kindergarten describing my first bicycle crash, which I attributed to rolling over a pine-cone. I have very little recollection of the crash itself - I only recall sitting, high up on the passenger seat of the minivan, with a towel pressed to my forehead and anxiously asking, "B-but can you see any BRAINS?"
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Redis and the Cost of Ambition
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
What happened to dear old Redis, I wondered. And the more I thought about it, a satisfying explanation started to coalesce which explains all the above phenomena. To me, the picture that emerges is that of a solution that lost its identity through ambition.
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Tokens and Dreams
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself.
The map is not the territory.
This is why I'm stuck, the evidence is puzzling. To push-back when people's daily experience of AI is of the magical variety is seen as almost perverse. I find myself constantly wanting to say "No! I embrace these tools! This is not thinly-veiled self-preservation! Just hear me out..." But how do I express this when, at every turn, a new silver bullet for agent orchestration, automatic coding, automatic review, automatic thinking is being announced? Going further, as one concerned with code as ground-truth for a system, how do I take the leap of faith and relinquish control to a swarm of agents and markdown files?
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Slopification and Its Discontents
O sovran, virtuous, precious of all trees
In Paradise! of operation blest
To sapience, hitherto obscured, infamed.A couple weeks back Anthropic announced a promotion offering six free months of their maximum Claude plan to open-source developers. I submitted an application, and a few days later an invitation arrived in my inbox and I was up-and-running on the latest Opus 4.6 model.
The fruit was plucked and in my hand.
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cysqlite - a new sqlite driver
Back in the spring of 2019, I began working on cysqlite, a from-scratch DB-API compatible SQLite driver. I intended one day to use it as a replacement for pysqlite3. Seven years later, the project is ready. It provides an API and performance similar to the standard library
sqlite3module, with many additional features. View more posts
