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I'm an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don't speak for me (Or anyone I know.) Page created: 2025-03-19 Updated: 2025-03-23 Sometimes you just want to be understood. Here I am, a software developer in the year 2025. I look around at "tech" in the news and in culture and I don’t like…

March 2025 What should one do? That may seem a strange question, but it's not meaningless or unanswerable. It's the sort of question kids ask before they learn not to ask big questions. I only came across it myself in the process of investigating something else. But once I did, I thought I should at…

A few weeks ago I received an unsolicited email from the Belgian Center for Cyber Security. It starts with the statement that 80% of cyber attacks could be avoided if 2FA was active and then says literally that If you only use a username and password for your remote logins, you're a sitting duck.…

Is Abandoning the Internet “The Next Big Thing”? As a venture capitalist who invests in high tech, I have to worry that the web will be perceived as an increasingly corrupt police state overlying a maze of dark alleys and unsafe practices outside the rule of law. The public and many corporations…

abstract Python is not Java, nor is it C++ It’s different! Let’s talk about how. Why? Because as Python experts (you did choose to come to a Python conference so likely you’re either an expert already or in time you’re going to become one if you keep going to Python conferences) we have a…

2nd March 2025 A surprisingly common complaint I see from developers who have tried using LLMs for code is that they encountered a hallucination—usually the LLM inventing a method or even a full software library that doesn’t exist—and it crashed their confidence in LLMs as a tool for writing code.…