Throwing a fit isn’t collaboration. — My History with Python Typing I’ve been a full-time Python developer for over 5 years. It was my first language and I love it. I made the transition over to Python 3.7 about 4 years ago and have been contributing to open-source since then. One of the things that excited me the most about Python’s…

My dad died 21 days ago. It feels unreal, but inevitable. 13 years ago he called me and said he had half a year to live. When I heard that news I collapsed. I don’t remember much from that call, except screaming “no”. He got better. He spent the last…

Social Media’s Moderation Problem There is no question that social media faces a nearly impossible problem with content moderation. Extreme points of view and objectionable content are amplified by an algorithmically enhanced funnel faster than any team of moderators can respond. When we cite objectionable material that thrived on a social platform, why do…

Intro I recently got around to publishing my personal website and the whole experience was so delightful I felt it important to share my process. It took me about 8 working hours (including research and reading docs). For some scale, this blog post will have taken me about 2X that amount…

Deploying Scalable, Production-Ready Web-Services in Python 3 on Kubernetes — Python has undergone something of an evolution in the past few years. From Python 3.4 to 3.7 we have seen the introduction of asyncio, the introduction and formalization of async/await keywords, and re-investment in asyncio performance. Writing asynchronous code in Python has never been easier, more performant, or more efficient.