“Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.”-Jeanette Winterson

“Whenever you read a book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow more light”- Vera Nazarian

"I think books are like people, in the sense they turn up in your life when you most need them. -Emma Thompson"

Open source is the new sauce

"Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers."Harry S. Truman

Velda Kiara — software engineer, writer, speaker and traveller. Code, community, and the craft of building.

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries"- René Descartes

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life"- Mark Twain

A blackbox of hard knocks

Thoughts and pieces of internals

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“Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.”- Khaled Hosseini

Choosing To Run For What You Want

To live, to love, to thrive.

To write or not to write, that is the question!

🥂🥂 Cheers to existing in another year!

Hang in there!

Embracing The Red and The Blue

Where books come to life

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is the open standard that is revolutionising how Large Language Models (LLMs) connect to external data, tools, and services,…

Public speaking and software engineering

So, you want to speak at a London Django Meetup group’s event? Great! Here’s a brief guide to the things you need to know. We’re a volunteer-run monthly meetup for London’s Django development communi...

DjangoCon US 2025 is a Python and Django focused web development conference in Chicago, Illinois.

221B Baker Street. The Brownstone

Excited to be a PSF Fellow

You can't buy happiness, but you can buy ice cream, and that's pretty much the same thing.