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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I really thought he was gonna go with “American Intelligence”.

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Wyatt Walls @wwalls.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why don't you trust me?

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Sebastián Ramírez @tiangolo.com · 24/09/2026

I will keep reviewing and adjusting any AI generated code until the models can consistently one-shot produce something I would consider acceptable. I haven't been able to just "trust the model". But anyway, trust is earned, applies to humans, companies, products, AI.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I referred to my daughter as my favorite tax deduction. Kid: Like favorite as in more than my sister? Me: She aged out. No longer a deduction.

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Bijou wants to help in the office

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I finally booked my flight to SF for PyBay @pybay.bsky.social today. And then checked out who else is talking this year, and now I'm even more excited. pybay.org/speaking/spe... Pamela Fox @pamelafox.bsky.social , Bernát Gábor @gjbernat.bsky.social Anthony Sottile, and so many more great people

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PyBay 2026 - 11th Annual Bay Area Python Dev Conference

11th Annual Python developer conference - longest running on the US West Coast. Join us in San Francisco!

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 09/09/2026

"I made this / You made this?" meme: a stick figure labeled "Samsung" hands over an object to one labeled "Apple," who then claims "I made this" while holding the same object, labeled "Apple" again in the following panels.

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“AI horseradish” is a fun term

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

3 day weekend and on the 3rd day I kinda miss work. Does that make me a workaholic, or just someone who enjoys their career?

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“AI is awesome” - people who don’t have to maintain their own code “AI can be helpful” - those who maintain their own code “I F*ing hate AI” - those who have to maintain code from group 1

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muirii 🎀 @muirii.art · 01/09/2026

may everyones hobbies become affordable again :(

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 31/08/2026

Deleted Google Maps and Maps.Me, giving CoMaps a whirl. It’s open-source and not spammy at all. It drove me to Bike Park Wales for a day of bashing around on the MTB, and then off to Cheltenham ready for more tree maintenance, absolutely no troubles. www.comaps.app

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Hike, Bike, Drive Offline – Navigate with Privacy

Discover more of your journey - Powered by the community

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Bread matcha.With iced banana? I think we’ve gone too far into the weird.

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The hard part wasn’t coming up with 100 pages of content on TDD. The hard part was editing down to ~100.

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Slug bug rules when I was a kid: smack a friend when you see a VW Beetle. My kids rules: smacking can happen with - VW Beetle - yellow car - license plate from a state not yours or any adjacent state

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Lean TDD is #1 New Release in Microsoft Programming www.amazon.com/Lean-TDD-Wit...

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Lean TDD : TDD Without the Waste www.amazon.com/Lean-TDD-Wit... ebook release August 4 Paperback scheduled for following week Then I think approx 1 other week for audio book

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Even the code or prose that sounds ok today, if reviewed tomorrow, will likely seem like gibberish. I notice it in areas of my expertise. So it’s terrifying to trust it too much in areas where I’m not the expert.

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

“space astronauts” as opposed to all of those “non-space astronauts”

Bubble gun toy with description of “space astronauts”

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Lean TDD book progress ☑︎ audio book recorded ☑︎ initial audio edit pass ☐ … so much more … I’m looking forward to the 1.0 release with paperback, audio, and ebook.

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Listening to “A World Appears” by Michal Pollan. Quite the mind trip so far.

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

pytest kinda blows up during collection if an import fails. pytest-optional-dependencies is a way to avoid this. github.com/okken/pytest... I should probably write a blog post about why this plugin is necessary and not evil.

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GitHub - okken/pytest-optional-dependencies: Don't run tests for modules that won't import due to missing dependencies.

Don't run tests for modules that won't import due to missing dependencies. - okken/pytest-optional-dependencies

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

It’s 11 pm and I am tired. But I also want to keep writing. My brain want to keep going. But my hands and forearms say we’re done for the night. :(

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Anyone have an internal role of “developer advocate”? I think it’d be fun to represent and advocate for the developer experience between stakeholders and engineers.

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Hey, I know that guy! I’m listening to “The Reversr Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI” by @doctorow.pluralistic.net and @glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy is quoted. Very cool. Also nice person to represent serious developers.

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Téo Calvo @teomewhy.org · 18/06/2026

q imagem boa

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Guided meditations are so much easier at 1.5x speed.

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Mike Fiedler @miketheman.com · 16/06/2026

I'm starting to really think that the main benefit of the new waves of AI is exposing every business process weakness. Case and point: if you have terrible dev docs, test/validation steps, generative agents will produce about the same quality as an unguided junior dev

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

At a fast food drive though window. Dude in window: “Ah. Stephen Hawking. Which book?” My daughter: “Universe in a nutshell” Dude: “I love his books. Can’t read them at night though. They give me nightmares.” <pause>

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

New Spotify app icon is giving Day the Earth Stood Still vibes

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Am I doing this right? As a [calling function] I want to [call a function] So I can [get the return value] Seems pointless.

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Current state of agentic code: - would bring on as an intern - might hire as a contractor - would not offer full time position

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

New book art, what do you all think?

“Lean TDD: TDD Without the Waste” and a rocket

“Lean TDD: TDD Without the Waste” and a rocket and Brian Okken, the author

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Large portion of my email inbox: - You know that podcast you stopped doing? Want us to put it on YouTube for you? - I’d like to write a guest post for your podcast website that isn’t a blog and no longer has guests. Interested? No, I’m not interested.

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Pushed version 0.6 of Lean TDD and just noticed all of the footnotes are wrong. 😢🤦‍♂️ Too tired. I’ll fix it tomorrow.

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I’m “helping” with trig homework and 🤯 I barely understood it 40 years ago.

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

pytest-check 2.8.0 github.com/okken/pytest... check helper functions, check.equal(), etc., now support an optional xfail string to allow check failures to result in xfail instead of fail on a non-xfail marked test And we’re temporarily at 0 open issues and 0 PRs #Python #pytest

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Release 2.8.0 · okken/pytest-check

Support Request #122: Feature proposal: Capability to mark checks as xfail Allow check helper functions, including raises(), to accept an xfail reason. A failing check can now produce an xfailed te...

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Coding then and now:`printf(` -> `print(f`

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