Latest Blog Posts from Torc Community Members

Last updated: 12 January 2026 at 12:53 am GMT

  1. From Fresh Mac to Productive in 30 Minutes

    I've been hearing developers talk about their dotfiles for years. "Oh yeah, I just clone my dotfiles...

  2. 2025 Retrospective

    2025 Retrospective 2025 has come and gone and this is the first year I have actually sat down and done somewhat of a review of the year. I feel like the year went so quickly and at the sa...

  3. My 2025 Year in Review

    2025 was wild. I wrapped up 2024 with OpenSauced getting acquired by the Linux Foundation, which...

  4. What Makes Goose Different From Other AI Coding Agents

    I just finished Goose’s Advent of AI. Everything from CI automation to hand-gesture controlled apps...

  5. Advent of AI 2025 - Day 17: Building a Wishlist App with Goose and MCP-UI

    I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts related to the Advent of AI....

  6. Advent of AI 2025 - Day 16: Planning With .goosehints

    I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts related to the Advent of AI....

  7. Windows paths with spaces in Python's `os`

    Dealing with spaces in file paths is an issue that I keep running into. So here's a very short blog to save us time and headaches. You can either use r string or double backslashes (\\). ...

  8. Advent of AI 2025 - Day 15: Goose Sub-Recipes

    I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts related to the Advent of AI....

  9. Advent of AI 2025 - Day 14: Agent Skills

    I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts related to the Advent of AI....

  10. Advent of AI - Day 13: Goose Terminal Integration

    I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts for the Advent of AI. If I'm...

  11. Advent of AI - Day 12: MCP Sampling

    I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts for the Advent of AI. If I'm...

  12. Advent of AI - Day 11: Goose Subagents

    I've edited this post, but AI helped. These are meant to be quick posts for the Advent of AI. If I'm...

  13. writing about reading about writing about development in order to write about development

    somehow joining a book club led to me wanting to write more and these are my ramblings. hey I didn't say it was going to be good writing ok

  14. Magic Mundanity

    πŸŽ„ RISE & RAGE, Agents of Chaos! πŸŽ„& Happy Holdaze! Buckle up!The header photo for this blog is a picture of me (duh) at a tea party of my own creation in my festive jammies on a hot, humid, Florida C...

  15. Breaking the 28k SSE connection barrier

    How I figured out the issue that was limiting my leaderboard to 28232 SSE connections, fixed it and a framework to reach 1 million.

  16. Fake SMTP Server

    Step 1: Install aiosmtpd library pip install aiosmtpd Step 2: The Modern Fake SMTP Server Script (aioserver.py) import asyncio from aiosmtpd.controller import Control...

  17. `requirements.txt` in python

    Stop Saying "It Works on My Machine!" Ever tried to share your Python project and had someone tell you, "It doesn't work on my machine?" That usually happens because they're missing a libra...

  18. Getting Marimo Up and Running on Windows with uv

    Getting Started with Marimo on Windows (using uv) Let's install the Marimo Python notebook on Windows with uv. 1. Get the uv Installer First, we need to install uv. Open Po...

  19. Installing pandas with uv on windows

    Here's a quick overview to installing pandas on windows: We will follow these steps: Install uv (if you haven't already). Create a virtual environment using uv. Activate the virtual environment. Ins...

  20. On Thin Ice.

    πŸͺ© RISE & RAGE, MUFFINS πŸͺ©A bit of sap to start: I’ve been with my company for nearly 6 years and in that time frame, I have experienced a career evolution that I never saw coming. This is dedicated t...

  21. Basic Mail Automation in Python

    Mail automation is a python script and is usually called "Mail Merge Generator" but I like mail automation more, so that's what I'm gonna call it for my article. This article is very beginner friendl...

  22. Backpressure in Distributed Systems

    Understanding what it is, how to deal with it, where it's used and how I handled it in the real time leaderboard.

  23. Text Cleaning in Python

    Hey to my fellow Python enthusiasts. This article is about a very simple text cleaning. Nothing fancy or complicated here. This might not be exactly a practical script but it'll help you get the idea...

  24. Anotha One πŸŽ™οΈ

    I was on Job Decoder and my job was decoded

  25. 28K+ connections, zero messages

    How I learnt about Go's concurrency patterns the hard way.