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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 18/03/2025

quick new post on what i've gotten out of HN vickiboykis.com/2025/03/17/2...

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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 14/03/2025

Anyone know of a recipe that works for getting a "pytest --pdb" debugger REPL up that lets you interactively execute "await ..." statements, similar to "python -m asyncio" ? The StackOverflow threads about this are all pretty stale, wondering if there's a new option that I've not been able to […]

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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2025

Here's the table of contents for my lengthy new piece on how I use LLMs to help me write code simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/using…

If someone tells you that coding with LLMs is easy they are (probably unintentionally) misleading you. They may well have stumbled on to patterns that work, but those patterns do not come naturally to everyone.

I’ve been getting great results out of LLMs for code for over two years now. Here’s my attempt at transferring some of that experience and intution to you.

Set reasonable expectations
Account for training cut-off dates
Context is king
Ask them for options
Tell them exactly what to do
You have to test what it writes!
Remember it’s a conversation
Use tools that can run the code for you
Vibe-coding is a great way to learn
A detailed example
Be ready for the human to take over
The biggest advantage is speed of development
LLMs amplify existing expertise
Bonus: answering questions about codebases

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Tim Hopper @tdhopper.com · 13/03/2025

Great recs. Adding to my list.

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Mark Roddy @launchit.ai · 13/03/2025

I started using Python 20 years ago, but left and come back to it repeatedly. Every time I picked it back up, the dev experience had swung wildly. Getting caught up, even as an experienced user, was a huge PITA. I think that's finally going to change with what @tdhopper.com just launched.

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Tim Hopper @tdhopper.com · 13/03/2025

If you use the curl method, uv can update itself later which is nice

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Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 12/03/2025

If you use python, but you don't use uv yet: why?

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Tim Hopper @tdhopper.com · 12/03/2025

I decided not to try to pursue this as a print book because the ecosystem is always changing and the scope of the book will grow as I have time to put into it. If there are topics or questions you’d like to see addressed, please let me know.

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Tim Hopper @tdhopper.com · 12/03/2025

👋🏻 In the last 10 years, I’ve had a growing interest in making Python development more effective. I’ve learned that a lot of teams don’t make the best use of the tooling available to use. This has culminated with writing an ebook on developer tooling I’m excited to share with you. pydevtools.com

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Python Developer Tooling Handbook

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A K @aklingus.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

if your back doesn’t hurt yet, protect it at all costs bsky.app/profile/imlu...

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Tim Hopper @tdhopper.com · 20/01/2025

I wrote a post about my love for my Sony mirrorless camera for photographing my 4 kids tdhopper.com/blog/sonya7i...

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The Sony A7 iii after 5 years

A parent's review of the Sony A7 iii

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Tim Hopper @tdhopper.com · 19/01/2025

7-year old wanted to know how far the north pole is, so I asked Siri three times. 1st time “call mom” displayed on my screen and it started calling my *dad* 2nd it said “which Joel would you like to call” 3rd time it started to show directions to North Pole, AK

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Tim Hopper @tdhopper.com · 18/01/2025

👂🏻I spoke with Dr. Robert Ghrist of the University of Pennsylvania about his recent groundbreaking endeavor to "direct" the creation of a beautiful new linear algebra textbook for AI students in just 55 days using a customized Anthropic Claude project. tdhopper.com/blog/writing...

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Writing a Math Textbook with Claude with Professor Ghrist

Dr. Robert Ghrist shares how he used Claude to \

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Tim Hopper @tdhopper.com · 17/01/2025

Great discussion of my recent post here 👇🏻

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Tim Hopper @tdhopper.com · 04/01/2025

Highly recommend getting a 3D printer because it's the best way to make new parts for your 3D printer

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 31/12/2024

Here's my end-of-year review of things we learned out about LLMs in 2024 - we learned a LOT of things simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/... Table of contents:

The GPT-4 barrier was comprehensively broken
Some of those GPT-4 models run on my laptop
LLM prices crashed, thanks to competition and increased efficiency
Multimodal vision is common, audio and video are starting to emerge
Voice and live camera mode are science fiction come to life
Prompt driven app generation is a commodity already
Universal access to the best models lasted for just a few short months
“Agents” still haven’t really happened yet
Evals really matter
Apple Intelligence is bad, Apple’s MLX library is excellent
The rise of inference-scaling “reasoning” models
Was the best currently available LLM trained in China for less than $6m?
The environmental impact got better
The environmental impact got much, much worse
The year of slop
Synthetic training data works great
LLMs somehow got even harder to use
Knowledge is incredibly unevenly distributed
LLMs need better criticism
Everything tagged “llms” on my blog in 2024

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Tim Hopper @tdhopper.com · 31/12/2024

Updated my annual accomplishments notes * Survived herniated disc pain and surgery * Back to weight lifting after 5 month break * Landed amazing job @ Spotify * Spoke at 1st conference in 5 years * Saw 1st total eclipse * Back to blogging a bit tdhopper.com/annual-accomplishments/

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Annual Accomplishments

Some Personal Accomplishments 2024 Survived painful, herniated disc and went through successful surgery Got back to lifting weights after 5 month break due to a herniated disc Down to the fourth belt ...

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Tim Hopper @tdhopper.com · 30/12/2024

I've tried using 𝒜𝐼 could of times to get started, but that's always led to roadblocks I haven't been able to get past. Does anyone have a good tutorial for bootstrapping something like this?

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Tim Hopper @tdhopper.com · 30/12/2024

I don't know much about modern web applications, but I have a few small projects to do that just require basic account creation and CRUD operations. I've been looking at Cloudflare Pages + Supabase so that I could run them for free and serverless.

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 29/12/2024

today I learned that you can create a special text file to use for logging curl timing details blog.josephscott.org/2011/10/14/t...

vicki@hermes git:(main*) 🐍 3.10 % curl -w "@curl-format.txt" -o /dev/null -s "https://api.github.com/repos/veekaybee/viberary"
time_namelookup: 0.018073s
time_connect: 0.031290s
time_appconnect: 0.047484s
time_pretransfer: 0.047536s
time_redirect: 0.000000s
time_starttransfer: 0.131164s
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time_total: 0.131659s

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 🎂Dec 26, 1791 Charles Babbage born in London, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1822: Invented a mechanical device for calculating mathematical tables (the Difference Engine) -- the forerunner of computing machines.

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Brett Meiselas @bmeiselas.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Feels like every hotel, airplane, car, new home, etc implemented standard USB ports and literally the same year the entire tech world changed over to USB-C

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Tim Hopper @tdhopper.com · 21/12/2024

Copilot tried to write this post for me and honest it’s not wrong

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Kelzor @bloodlesscoup.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I have to take an annual fire safety training for work, and I am reminded that I asked some of the folks who manage these things how they evacuate the NICU and apparently they have vests you can load up with babies

A product photo with a supposed hospital employee wearing a vest with three visible pouches that are made of probably nylon and mesh, and they are buckled closed like the buckles on bike helmets, and in each pouch is a baby doll

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Tim Hopper @tdhopper.com · 21/12/2024

My goal is to do that with the book. Eventually.

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Nico Ritschel @nicoritschel.com · 20/12/2024

Type of guy that posts explanations from ChatGPT whenever anyone asks a question

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Ethan @ethanrosenthal.com · 21/12/2024

+1 to every single thing that Tim said

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Tim Hopper @tdhopper.com · 21/12/2024

Honestly mostly because pyright requires installing node on my ci system and it’s a hassle

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Tim Hopper @tdhopper.com · 19/12/2024

Is this about my standup updates

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Jowanza @jowanza.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

It was awesome being on with Tim. Talked about how we use AI to build our company, Parakeet.

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JD Long @jdlong.cerebralmastication.com · 17/12/2024

Me at 52 giving physical fitness advice to my 26yo self:

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JD Long @jdlong.cerebralmastication.com · 18/12/2024

This should be a movie. And a roadtrip. Maybe a road-trip movie.

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Tim Hopper @tdhopper.com · 16/12/2024

Out shopping for Christmas dinner

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 12/12/2024

Where are my fellow Lego nerds at? #lego

View of a corner in a house. The ceiling is sloped - it is a finished attic. There are white floating shelves on the wall to the right, covered in assembled Lego sets. On the left there is a white chair behind a white desk with drawers. On the wall behind the desk are many drawer units mounted to the wall. All the drawer units have little labels on the little drawers in them. There must be a thousand little drawers. On top of the drawer units is a row of Lego cars.

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Tim Hopper @tdhopper.com · 13/12/2024

www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2024

Finally got around to dealing with one of those "DeprecationWarning: datetime.datetime.utcnow() is deprecated" warnings, so I wrote it up as a tiny TIL: til.simonwillison.net/python/utc-wa…

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Fixes for datetime UTC warnings in Python

I was getting the following warning for one of my Python test suites:

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Tim Hopper @tdhopper.com · 08/12/2024

Everyone in select countries got it

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