Latest · April 2026
Making Sense of Harness Engineering
Harness engineering was invented in 1999 — we just didn't call it that. The XP practices Kent Beck wrote about are being demanded again, now by AI agents.
25 years of Python. Then AI bit me. Now I'm drinking from the firehose.
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The Future is Symbolic - A Providential Review
A track-by-track review of 2mørVs' The Future is Symbolic, and how the album and a chain of providential events shaped my faith.
The Art of Code Organization
Two strategies for structuring code — affinity vs similarity — and why the way you organize matters more than the framework you're using.
How ChatGPT quickly helped me understand Django's source code
An unexpectedly efficient session walking through Django's model field internals with ChatGPT — DeferredAttribute, contribute_to_class, and virtual fields.
The definitive guide to setup my Python workspace
An opinionated Python workspace on Unix with pyenv and virtualenvwrapper — one Jupyter and iPython per major version, clean isolation for everything else.