Goodbye 2024 with a video & a podcast

December 23, 2024

Season’s greetings friend, both from me and temporarily-my dog: Barnaby and I on a Xmas market Yes, Barnaby’s back in my life to help me through the dark...

A podcast, venvs in Docker, & the last take on uv – I promise!

October 9, 2024

Greetings friend, it’s been a normal amount of time since the last time, which is a relief! I’ve even waited a bit to coalesce the news a bit so I don’t spam...

uv, Docker, and the Return to Normalcy

August 28, 2024

Hello friend, it’s been a while again, but I’ve also been barely at home! I’ve had an absolutely amazing PyCon US and can recommend everybody to attend it in...

The Endless Quest for Simpler Workflows: Nox, tox, and direnv

May 12, 2024

Hello friend! A few quick notes from me while I’m frantically getting ready for PyCon US (flying out on Tuesday already!) and trying to tie up as many knots...

New Video: uv & Python Packaging – And How It Came to Be

March 5, 2024

Greetings, friend! I bet you didn’t expect to hear from me so soon – neither did I! And I beg you not to get used to it, for better and worse. In my last...

Dependency Injection and Ongoing YouTube Adventures

February 24, 2024

Greetings, friend! Looks like I’ve managed to shorten the interval to only two months! If you’re wondering what I’m talking about because you haven’t heard...

YouTube, svcs, Pull Requests, … omg So Many Things

December 23, 2023

Greeting friend! It’s been a minute. Last time, I wrote right before EuroPython 2023 in Prague – and while attending, I got many compliments that my...

Writing After Twitter, Conference Life, and Turbo-Charging tox

July 7, 2023

Hello friend! It's been a while again, but I did promise to keep the list low-volume! Unfortunately, once again, the low volume doesn't apply to this...

Return to Big Stages, macOS Dynamic Linker, & Nox

January 25, 2023

Greetings Friend! Hope everyone made it into 2023 and that the overall trajectory will improve somewhat! I for one managed to get (non-COVID) sick twice this...

Of Fruit Flies and My Summer of Python Packaging

September 21, 2022

Hello friend! As with the last newsletter, I'm starting with "it's been a while", however in this case there's been a lot of things to announce! Hope y'all...

The Least Intuitive Testing Rule I Follow, Conferences, and a Podcast

June 21, 2022

Greetings friend, it’s been a while! Although a lot happened, little productive has come out of it for me sadly. But I promised that this newsletter is going...

Podcast Appearance and FOSS Navel-Gazing

February 16, 2022

Happy belated New Year dear friend, I hope 2022 is treating you better, than its nasty cousins 2020 and 2021! Last time I was wondering where Omicron will...

Goodbye Codecov & TIL Reflections

December 4, 2021

Greetings, friend! This one is a bit unusual and direct result of my announcement of the TIL section on my homepage. A success story, if you will. Since...

Appearance: Python Conference(!) in Amersfoort / NL

September 9, 2021

Bonjour, I’m interrupting my vacation to let y’all know that I’ll be giving a talk at a Python conference in the Zoo of Amersfoort (close to Utrecht) that...

Announcing the TIL Section on My Homepage

August 25, 2021

Hello friend, this is gonna be a quick one, because what I’m announcing already has a navel-gazing nature. Over the years the bar that I perceive about...

Many Words on Subclassing in Python

June 22, 2021

Greetings friends! I'm super excited that despite the fact that the last post was rather niche, y'all keep subscrib[ed|ing]! Now if my SemVer post was...

Failures Are More Fun When Shared With Friends

April 28, 2021

Greetings, friend! Thank you so much for subscribing! Unless half of you unsubscribe the moment they realize that I don't only rant about versioning schemes,...

pyca/cryptography and the Cult of Wishful Thinking

March 2, 2021

Hello friend! Welcome to the first issue of Hynek Did Something and thank you so much for participating in my little experiment! ❤️ The perspective of being...