python-dev, PSF fellow ermeritus, bowler, con speaker, stories, zone-6 farmer. Sailing around the world in a dirty gondola.
Joined April 2009
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30 Mar 2016
My Talks: Stop Writing Classes youtube.com/watch?v=o9pEzgHo… Useful Namespaces youtube.com/watch?v=jPPfGTIk… Name Things Once youtube.com/watch?v=1__lNTlj…
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He could be talking about bowling also!!
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Jun 5
It’s pretty clear nobody in @awscloud leadership has ever seen a customer’s bill. If they had, it’d have ads on it by now.
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Jun 4
At Archil, we have the privilege of working with nearly all of the teams building frontier agents at scale. One thing that we heard over and over again: is grep really the right tool to search over my file system data as it grows?
Today, we're answering that question with a resounding yes by releasing Archil grep.
Archil grep makes it simple to take advantage of massive map-reduce compute to search your data, without needing to configure external systems, indexes, ETL, etc.
Give your agents `disk.grep` to 10x their search performance by only changing a single line of code.
Jun 4
Today, we're speeding up ripgrep by 10x for agents built using Archil disks with our launch of "Archil grep". We're exposing Archil grep as a new function in our Typescript SDK that you can hand to your agents.
Under the hood, it's a powerful map-reduce system that allows Archil to partition your data sets, and spin up concurrent sandboxes to perform massive, parallel search.
This launch finally alleviates the concern that many agent builders have: how should my agent performantly search my data as it continues to grow in size?
Watch the demo below to watch us run Archil grep on 100,000 files 10x faster than ripgrep can. Give it to your agents today with the latest release of the "disk" SDK.
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Jun 2
the 9 y/o's school upgraded their IT system so that everything goes to text messages. Do you want to know who won the school council elections for 4th grade? Bad luck, fuck you, because you're getting a text about it regardless. Also there is an app.
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Jun 2
A general complaint about safety. To volunteer for *anything* I had to get an FBI fingerprint test that attested I had no record. It wasn't expensive (about $50 ) but I have never been fingerprinted in my life because I am - like 99% of people - boring in the ways they care about
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Jun 2
in addition to the fifty bucks I had to make an appointment during business hours. That isn't a lot of friction but it is some friction. At the margins there are some people for whom that friction is too much.
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May 27
LLMs ruined Chesterton's Fence
before agents:
q: 'why is this random fence with no obvious purpose here?'
a: 'someone had problem, this was solution'
after agents:
q: 'why is this random fence with no obvious purpose here?'
a: 'agent put it here randomly for no purpose'
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May 20
You can bake a potato without poking holes in it first. It bakes like usual. You have nothing to lose but your chains
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May 12
It's not rocket science, but command line interfaces matter. I'm looking forward to presenting "How to Write a Great Command Line Application" at #pycon on Friday, 12:30p.
us.pycon.org/2026/schedule/p…
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Apr 27
I'm aware of the scientific method. I'm aware that if you want to know what matters you don't change two variables at the same time. Despite that, when I pushed the cat off my HaLow transmitter and put a box over it I also turned it off and on again. Works great. Don't care why.
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Apr 18
a battery backup made for fridges, seems like a decent market for people who don't want the suitcase sized backups. youtube.com/watch?v=VlgiEAga…
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Apr 16
today, I'm so excited for the entire Archil team to turn the cloud on its head. developers and agents don't care about CPUs, they care about (a) where their data is stored and (b) how they can do something with it.
with Serverless Execution, we're enabling users to work with their data directly where it's stored to radically simplify how they build systems.
Apr 16
Introducing serverless execution. You can now give agents a bash tool that supports running bash directly on its context, without needing to manage a separate lifecycle for sandboxes.
Generally available now to all file systems in AWS regions.
docs.archil.com/concepts/ser…
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Apr 10
Our elementary school sent a note: children are no longer allowed to bring 3D printed items to school. The volume has become distracting.
/I believe it, the kids established a dedicated swapmeet area at recess
//is it really worse than say, Pokemon?
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Mar 29
One of these is gasoline straight out of the Jerry can. The other is siphoned from the lawn mower tank. There's your problem right there.
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Mar 25
I planted pecans last year. Unfortunately they take five years to produce. Ditto pawpaw, I was early on those but not early enough. theguardian.com/food/2026/ma…
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Mar 13
a microwave oven designed with just two buttons, each labeled "Start/ 30 sec". Why two buttons? to double the functional life.
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I'll be interested on how this stacks up against "League of Ordinary Gentlemen" youtube.com/watch?v=jH6zKSA6…
They’re just guys chasing their dreams.
Episode 1 of #BornToBowl premieres on HBO and HBO Max on Monday, March 16.
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